Principal Strategy And Business Planning

**Date**:7 Jul 2025

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

**Job State/Province**:South Australia

**Job Location/Region**:Adelaide

**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 Copper SA**
- BHP's copper province in South Australia (Copper SA) comprises the Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Carrapateena underground mines, with smelter and refinery complex at Olympic Dam. The company is also progressing the Oak Dam exploration prospect.

**About the Role**
- As the Principal Strategy and Business Planning you will lead the development, evaluation, and delivery of medium to long-term strategic plans and investment opportunities for Copper SA. You will play a pivotal role in shaping the Asset's future by driving the Corporate Alignment Planning (CAP) cycle, stewarding investment decisions, and aligning strategic initiatives with BHP's long-term value creation goals.
- You will also lead cross-functional projects, facilitate strategic decision-making, and ensure alignment with BHP's operating model, customer needs, and capital allocation framework.
- This role is based in Adelaide, with travel to site as required._
- As part of this role you will- Lead the framing, evaluation, and communication of risk-reward propositions for strategic decisions and investment opportunities.- Drive the execution of CAP deliverables and support capital and resource allocation aligned with BHP's strategic goals.- Identify areas for process improvement and redesign processes accordingly.- Translate corporate objectives into actionable plans and track their implementation and performance.- Facilitate strategic workshops and deliver compelling presentations to influence senior stakeholders.- Define value drivers, decision boundaries, and constraints to assess opportunity viability.- Manage complex projects, including planning, risk management, and success evaluation.- Build trust-based relationships across internal and external stakeholders to influence outcomes.-
- Role model inclusive leadership, coach others, and contribute to a high-performance team culture.

**About You**
- Tertiary qualification in finance, engineering, business, or a related discipline.
- Proven experience leading CAP cycle processes and strategic planning in a complex asset or function.
- Strong commercial acumen and experience with investment evaluation tools (e.g. decision trees, value of information).
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional projects and influence senior stakeholders.
- Familiarity with BHP systems such as SAP, Prime, SAC, and GRC.
- Strong analytical, facilitation, and storytelling skills.
- Experience with BHP Operating System (BOS) and a passion for continuous improvement.
- A collaborative, inclusive, and customer-focused mindset.

**How to Apply**

**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.