Date: 30 Jun 2026
Job Posting End Date:
Job Country:
Australia
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Job State/Province: South Australia
Job Location/Region: Adelaide
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.
Reporting to the Head of Innovation Delivery MinAus, the Specialist Innovation Business Partner Analyst supports the Business Partnership team to clearly understand and prioritise Asset needs, while enabling Innovation Delivery Project Managers to set up initiatives for seamless business adoption and integration into Assets.
The Business Partnering team is responsible for:
- Asset Needs (customer requests) - Identify key innovation opportunities to pursue and support the development of Asset Opportunity Plans, in alignment with LoA themes and processes.
- Implementation Success (customer endorsement and support) - Supporting projects in the identification of Asset implementation routes, and transition of initiatives from the Innovation team to the Asset for Implementation.
- Innovation Capability (culture and processes enabled) - Build innovation culture and capability within the business, own key relationships across the broader business to identify collaboration opportunities.
- Stakeholder Engagement - Enabling communication across the Invent team through strong relationships with the Asset and broader Innovation Team (i.e. Ecosystem and Product teams) to promote smooth interactions and alignment.
- Communications – Supporting the development, production and distribution of regular reports, and project-specific materials to represent Invent to the Asset.
- BHP Operating System (BOS is our way of working) - Assisting with BOS routines to support operational excellence, in particular comfortable running Problem Solving sessions focusing on root cause analysis and robust actions.
- Business Cases – Support the Delivery team with Project document review (primarily IRC documents) prior to initiatives reaching Delivery, and raising/resolving any concerns related to use-case, valuation framing, misalignment with Asset requirements and lack of key deliverables.
- Workshops / Executive and Leadership Meetings – Coordinating end-to-end workshop logistics, including attendee confirmation, travel bookings for external participants, room bookings, accommodation, catering, site inductions, and distribution of prearrival materials.
As the successful applicant you will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Adelaide-based (Required)
- Experience coordinating and planning for various teams (preferably experience with Mining).
- Highly organised and detail-oriented, with the ability to prioritise and adapt as requirements evolve.
- Communicate clearly and build trusted relationships across diverse stakeholder groups, including site operations, technical specialists, vendors, and innovation teams.
- Proactive, solution-focused approach and remain calm and effective when navigating ambiguity or shifting priorities.
- Diligent in applying governance, safety, and delivery frameworks (e.g. BHP Invent, BOS, Lean), ensuring documentation and processes are accurate and compliant.
- Strong Microsoft 365 capability (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint) and the ability to quickly learn new systems.
- Maintain structured, searchable document repositories.
- Demonstrate a continuous improvement mindset, seeking opportunities to simplify, standardise and uplift ways of working.
- Curious about innovation and emerging technologies and motivated by enabling pilots and trials to progress safely and efficiently.
- You role model the BHP Charter Values and contribute to an inclusive, respectful, and collaborative team culture.
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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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 [email protected].
