BHP Hiring for Head of Commodity Strategy Full Time

About the Role – Job Description

ing into the Vice President of Strategy & Market Intelligence, the Head of Commodity Strategy Copper & Potash will lead the development of Commodity and Asset strategies for BHP’s future-facing commodities Copper and Potash. Leveraging extensive internal and external knowledge, networks and data, you will make recommendations for our strategic decisions within those commodities and lead the commodity supply analysis for Copper & Potash. You are committed to ensuring the decision-making and evaluation of every growth option, acquisition or divestment undertaken by BHP is clear, well informed and backed up by sound analysis.

As the Head of Commodity Strategy, you will be a key contributor to the development and application of strategic hypotheses; to lead and support projects to progress the development and implementation of our strategy including the evaluation of key strategic opportunities and challenges. You will provide guidance on the collection, analysis and use of industry data to provide a robust view of the global market including medium to long term commodity supply forecasts & competitor activity to support the development of commodity and asset strategies; feeding into BHP’s growth and Business Development activities.

You will be required to leverage a sound understanding of industry & macro-economic trends, market intelligence, and foresight to help enable enterprise growth. You will bring multidisciplinary teams together to collaboratively solve and implement solutions to systemic problems, challenging others with new ideas and apply approaches to deliver future-facing strategies. Thus, as the Head of Commodity Strategy – Copper & Potash, you will be a catalyst for all that is ahead at BHP.

This is a global search with the role to be based in Santiago, Chile (preferred); Toronto, Canada; or London, United Kingdom.

About You – Skills and Qualifications

You are an enthusiastic, confident self-starter who is able to work independently and as part of a team. Your strong technical understanding of the resources sector, coupled with a mastery of commodity strategy and market intelligence, will support your operational understanding and enable you to add value through commercial insight. Strong attention to detail and critical thinking, analysis and problem solving will be key to your success, as will your ability to coordinate team members from a variety of different internal and external teams and meet often challenging timelines.

A performance and commercially orientated professional, your technical finance & valuation strengths gained from your previous experience working within a Business Development, Forecasting, or Strategy Function will be well developed and industry leading. These skills will be complemented by excellent people skills, engagement and communication, high energy levels, and an action oriented attitude tempered by simplicity. An overriding commitment to health, safety, environment and sustainable development is a must.

We value diversity in thinking and your career to date will testify to your ability to demonstrate strong critical reasoning skills, quickly grasp concepts and apply theories. You will be able to demonstrate strong business acumen, have an understanding of the key drivers of shareholder value. Energetic and driven, you work well under pressure bringing attention to detail and an ability to meet multiple and competing deadlines.

You are able to establish credibility through your proven record of accomplishment, and excellent communication skills. You relate well with people with an engaging style allowing you to communicate confidently and build trusting working relationships; ensuring you are at ease when working with a range of stakeholders, from senior executives to external analysts.

Requirements

Minimum requirements that the successful candidate will meet include:

• A Tertiary (Bachelor’s) degree in Economics, Engineering, Geology, Commerce or a Finance-based discipline such as finance, business administration, or relevant field is required. A postgraduate degree is preferred, but not essential
• Deep experience gained from working within or adjacent to Commodity Strategy, Business Development or Forecasting in the extractives industry
• Demonstrated experience in the development and implementation of company-wide strategies and plans; ideally across a diversity of cultures/global geographies
• Ability to identify, navigate, and influence stakeholders across a large, global matrixed organization and with external stakeholders to drive and lead change
• Demonstrated financial analysis capabilities
• Excellent communication skills; both written and verbal
• Proven aptitude for leading and managing a team of high-performance executives
• Judgement and decision-making skills and an appreciation of strategic and business critical objectives
• A strong commercial mindset and ability to create long term value
• Demonstrated confidence in Safety Leadership and holding yourself and others accountable
• A passion to create an exciting vision of the future

Accountabilities

Your accountabilities will include, and not be limited to:

• Develop wholly integrated commodity and asset strategies for Copper and Potash, and aligned with the Group strategy
• Lead the development of Copper and Potash Asset Strategies to recommend business strategy, whether it be grow, harvest or sell, including informing strategic trade-offs and choices within those businesses (e.g. inform the appropriate trade-off between quality, volume and cost)
• Develop content for internal and external strategy and industry-related communications, including Board briefings and investor presentations
• Contribute to the portfolio strategy process, along with providing perspectives and input for the analysis of Group Scenarios, to ensure the commodity narrative is consistent and plausible
• Evaluate the relative competitiveness of assets within the relevant commodities sector, including synthesis of options that optimise and create value, to provide support to Business Development activities
• Support the Capital Prioritisation process by informing capital allocation decisions with commodity and asset attractiveness insights, ensuring consistency between the Strategy and capital allocation decisions
• Lead the development of communication tools for conveying a clear, compelling commodity and asset strategies to internal and external stakeholders
• Integrate functional and commodity strategies with the corporate strategy. Drive greater alignment and connection between the corporate strategy and commodity strategies, function plans focused on addressing key strategic imperatives that will drive shareholder value
• Lead the industry and price supply-side analysis activities within each of our commodities to support the development of the Commodity Price Protocols
• Embed sustainable BOS practices, including Standardized Work to drive improved safety and performance
• Create and engage high performing teams and an inclusive and diverse workforce
• Partnering with a high performing team of professionals across a variety of disciplines, and from diverse backgrounds and experience
• Demonstrate an overriding commitment to health, safety, environmental responsibility and diverse perspectives