Principal Business Planning

Date: 1 Oct 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

The purpose of the role is to provide technical expertise and thought leadership for developing, evaluating, and implementing asset-level strategies and long-term plans for Western Australia Iron Ore (WAIO). It also monitors plan and major program integration to ensure alignment with strategic goals.

You will support us to develop and maintain best practice business planning processes, with a thirst for continuous improvement. You will work within a function that spans the whole of WAIO, which makes this a unique and exciting opportunity.

In this role you will:

• Maintain a wide network of impact to drive strong functional/operational integration across WAIO.

• Through the application of technical mastery in the core areas of Resource Engineering, Supply Chain Planning and Commercial:

• Identify, assess and trade-off business opportunities to improve value.

• Support holistic plan optimisation and integration across all the strategic pillars.

• Pro-active identification of plan or strategy delivery risks.

• Undertake structured opportunity framing and problem-solving engagements to lead teams through business opportunities or challenges.

• Lead cross-functional and operational teams to deliver directional and delivery plans.

• Lead the WAIO Program Integration to monitor WAIO level plan integration and delivery.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have a tertiary qualification in Commerce, Engineering or similar, and relevant post-graduate studies are beneficial.

With significant strategic planning experience or a passion to develop in this arena, you will demonstrate:

• An overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and sustainable development.
• Emotional intelligence, with a high level of autonomy in complex decision making and responsiveness.
• Experience in leading cross-functional projects and influence senior stakeholders.
• Ability to cope with multiple priorities in a rapidly changing environment.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to translate data to a broad stakeholder group.
• Ability to apply integrative thinking to develop strategic advice, deliver briefings on complex issues and be alert to risks and opportunities.
• Proven ability to build, grow and manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders.

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.

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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.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation. If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process, please email us at .