Principal Workforce Strategy

**Date**:26 Sept 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**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
- Be at the centre of workforce strategy and studies for BHP.
- Be enabled through AI tools and strong executive sponsorship.
- Drive transformation in workforce capability and productivity, supported by a passionate and ambitious team.
- Working alongside passionate and ambitious workforce strategy colleagues, you will partner with the Manager Workforce Strategy to deliver on the long-term, global vision for workforce strategy and planning. This role is pacey, challenging and high impact. It requires strong technical skills across consulting, project management and data analytics, balanced with an ability to think strategically, systemically and with a customer mindset, to deliver workforce strategies and delivery plans that drive business transformation and secure capability for the future.

**Responsibilities**:
**Workforce Strategy & Planning**
- Drive our enterprise workforce strategy process by partnering with senior HR and Asset/Function leaders to assess future workforce requirements, define risks and opportunities, and recommend compelling workforce strategies/ initiatives.
- Provide specialist technical expertise and advice in capability and work design.
- Stay up to date on best practices and customer needs to continuously improve and automate internal processes and approaches, leveraging AI-enabled tools.
- Develop core deliverable documents and reports, used by our customers to make strategic decisions and allocate resources.

**Workforce Analytics**
- Conduct ad hoc and core analyses (supply/demand forecasting, scenario planning) using advanced excel skills.
- Translate data into meaningful insights, stories and recommendations.
- Support the technology roadmap for SWP in partnership with Workforce Analytics.

**Organisational Development**
- Maintain and develop the BHP Career & Capability Framework and other Job-related data, ensuring BHP’s future workforce is defined and data can be used across the people value chain for a range of use cases.
- Provide expertise on future of work and workforce design to senior leadership and HR.
- Support with the review and transformation of work systems and work design, in service of productivity and considering leading job design theory.
- Undertake workforce studies as required, to build organisational understanding of emerging trends and inform functional and business strategy.
- About You
- Substantial experience in a large, global, corporate organisation in a Workforce Planning, Consulting, or senior HR role.
- Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Strategy, Organisational Psychology or a related field.
- Intermediate - Advanced Microsoft Office skills (Excel & PowerPoint) and demonstrated experience in advanced modelling techniques.
- Experience in Mining or related industry preferred

**CORE CAPABILITIES**
- **_Information Analysis and Interpretation:_** Distils data to meaningful insights and develops evidence-based recommendations.
- **_Strategic Decision Making:_** Draws on previous experience and data insights to navigate ambiguity and complexity, making evidence decisions that consider multiple lenses and support achievement of functional, operational and organisational objectives.
- **_Disciplined, Agile Delivery:_** Leads cross-team and/or multi-phase projects from design through delivery. Adapts to shifting priorities and the changing demands of business. Knows our customer and takes personal accountability for their actions and performance, persisting and working hard to deliver against the plan and stretch targets.
- **_Business Acumen:_** Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
- **_Presentation/ Facilitation:_** Conducts presentations and facilitates workshops using storytelling to connect, influence and create buy-in from large/ complex stakeholder groups (e.g. senior Asset/Function leadership teams).
- **_Stakeholder Management:_** Works collaboratively across the organization to understand and anticipate the needs of different stakeholders groups and sources of influence. Prioritises engagement in these areas and works towards shared goals/outcomes.

**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requiremen