Analyst External Affairs

**Date**:19 May 2025

**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia

**Job State/Province**:Queensland

**Job Location/Region**:Brisbane

**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.

**Purpose**

Contributes to growing sustainable value for BHP and communities, today and into the future. Helps drive world-class performance of BHP’s External Affairs function through systematic planning, prioritisation and reporting; continuous improvement; capability uplift; and functional integrity.

**About the Role**
- Member of the External Affairs Operations team, with the opportunity to rotate through different teams in the External Affairs function.
- Contributes to team goals and activities, including embedding the External Affairs strategy and bringing it to life, enabling a One External Affairs culture, and streamlining the everyday.
- Conducts timely and accurate reporting to drive insight that enables internal and external customers to make informed decisions.
- Develops and communicates insights that guide data driven action and decision making.
- Defines and structures business problems to understand what can be addressed using analytics, designs analytics solutions and accesses and cleans data to prepare it for the analysis process.
- Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
- Identifies, engages and manages a range of diverse internal and external stakeholders.
- Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence based decision making.
- Identifies, implements and evaluates the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes.

**About You**
- Excellent Microsoft Suite and Excel skills
- Ability to analyze and interpret financial and compliance data
- Project management skills to coordinate new and existing programs and events
- Attention to detail and strong commitment to BHP’s values/purpose
- Professional verbal and written communications
- Business program focused on International Affairs, International Relations, Communications, Legal or Business.
- Strong initiative and ability to work unsupervised

**About Our Process**
- We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people looking to start or continue their career in mining to Think Big with BHP. At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. Indigenous Peoples are critical partners and stakeholders in many of BHP operations both within Australia and around the world. Many of our operations are located on or near lands traditionally owned by or under the customary use of Indigenous Peoples and the long-term nature of our operations allows us to establish long lasting relationships with these Indigenous communities.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**
- At BHP, we recognize that we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and this position will only be open to Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander applicants. The filling of this position/these positions is intended to constitute a special/equal opportunity measure under section 8(1) of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth),and s 105 of the Anti-Discrimination Act 1991 (Qld) & 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 (WA). Providing employment opportunities for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is an important part of our 2017 - 2021 Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP).
- For more information about our RAP, please visit here. These are full time positions. We are open to discussing flexible work arrangements that suit you - including varied roster arrangements, part-time or job share alternatives.