Principal Scrum Lead

**Date**:19 Sept 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:03-Oct-2025;15:59:59GMT

**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Western Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Perth

**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role
- Reporting to the Transformation Manager, the Principal Scrum Lead is an SME in Agile delivery methods, providing agile coaching to the People Experience (PX) team and uplifting capability in the HR function more broadly.
- This role will act as a mentor and change agent in coaching and guiding teams through the adoption of agile ways of working, helping to remove barriers to agility and enabling a culture of experimentation, learning and responsiveness.
- By embedding agile ways of working and human-centered design, the role plays a critical part in ensuring HRBPX provides scalable, intuitive, and engaging solutions that improve the overall people experience and support organizational success.

**Core Accountabilities**:

- Leads a capability uplift program to build agile capabilities in the People Experience team, including providing hands-on coaching to HR teams and stakeholders to embed Agile principles, practices, and mindsets.
- Partners with PX LT to set the agile standards (playbook) and ensures harmonization with BOS practices and routines.
- Provides coaching and support to HR leaders on leading in an agile environment - helps leaders to role-model agile behaviors and champion the transformation in operating model.
- Role models facilitation of key Agile ceremonies (e.g., sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives) ensuring they are effective and time-boxed.
- Supports teams in backlog refinement and prioritization, ensuring alignment with business outcomes and people experience goals.
- About You
- Experience working as a Scrum Master or in Agile delivery.
- Experience energising and shaping a great team culture.
- A curious and inquisitive mindset - one that always pushes for what’s next and what more could we do.
- Experience in coaching and facilitating across multiple organisational levels
- Adaptability - Agile is part of the BHP ways of working - it might have some nuances to what you have practiced before, but this works for us so you come open minded.
- Certified Scrum Practitioner (CSP) or Certified Scrum Coach (CSC) is a plus.
- This position is open for a 12-month Fixed Term / Secondment.

**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.