Head of Content

**About BHP**

At BHP, we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. Our purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. With a global portfolio of operations and future facing commodities, we offer a diverse, collaborative, and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to create a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and vision, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

We invest in people and capability to deliver high performance and our aspiration for a gender-balanced, inclusive, and diverse workforce. We drive continuous improvement through respect for people’s differences, self-accountability, a hunger to learn and a commercial mindset. We know we are successful when we have stable and predictable operations with 80,000+ problem solvers across BHP improving the work they do and making better decisions every day. Come be a part of this success through this leadership role

**About the Role - Job Description**:
Reporting into the Vice President, Communications and a member of the Global Communications Leadership Team, the Head of Content will set the strategic direction for and drive the execution of BHP’s narrative with external and internal audiences. This is a critical role driving the content generation that underpins BHP’s reputational positioning - it combines strategic, innovative thinking with disciplined execution. The Head of Content will need to effectively lead a team and provide regular coaching, supervision and direction so as to create a high-performing culture which delivers clear results for the Enterprise and positively supports BHP’s reputation with internal and external stakeholders.

The role is responsible for developing and executing BHP’s content strategy which includes the company’s overall narrative and all Executive Leadership Team speeches, major Company events including financial results and Annual General Meetings and supporting content tailored to digital and traditional channels. The content strategy will be aligned with global communications strategy, and the Head of will need to work closely with senior executives and the global communications team to make sure the strategy and content developed by the team is delivered effectively to key internal and external audiences. Furthermore, the role will oversee communications for key company transactions as well as support the content development for the annual reporting suite which includes BHP’s Annual Report. A true brand catalyst, the Head of Content will lead campaigns and events to amplify key themes from these reports to support BHP’s external positioning. In the event of a crisis, you will lead the Crisis Communications Management Team and act as the key liaison with the Crisis Management Team.

This is a global search that can be based in Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane, or Perth - Australia.

**About You - Skills and Qualifications**:
You will bring deep experience leading multi-disciplinary communications teams in large, diverse businesses, preferably with a global or national geographic footprint. They will bring proven mastery in a broad range of communications competencies including leadership communications, financial communications, employee communications, media, digital communications, and corporate affairs. Operating in a fast moving, ambiguous environment, this leader will have extensive issues and crisis management skills and the ability to develop world-class content strategy. A sound knowledge of GRI and reporting principles is preferable. As part of a global function, collaboration across BHP, globally, regionally, and locally - with a wide variety of stakeholders - is a key component to this leadership role; thus cultural acumen, and leading with respect is woven into this leader’s DNA.

**Requirements**:

- Tertiary qualification (Bachelor’s Degree) in Communications, Business or related field required; Masters, MBA, Advanced Degree or leadership equivalent preferred
- Extensive, proven experience in Communications, Corporate/External Affairs, or related field in a multi-national matrixed organization is essential
- Proven experience of building and leading an inclusive and high performing culture and teams across global geographies
- Demonstrated confidence in Safety Leadership and holding yourself and others accountable
- The ability to develop strategy, and align stakeholders and cross-functional teams to drive performance through operating discipline to achieve great results
- Experience in influencing in all directions through working with peers, internal functions, regulatory authorities, and third party or external stakeholders
- Superb oral, written communication, and influencing skills across functions, industry sectors and levelling within an organization; English fluency mandatory - Spanish would be very