Date: 18 Jul 2025
Job Posting End Date: 01-Aug-2025;15:59:59GMT
Job Country:
Australia
Job State/Province: Various Locations
Job Location/Region:
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
Provides strategic, technical and operational expertise in privacy risk management. Drive strategic and operational outcomes through risk management and the operational execution of the functions privacy control framework to create value through process improvement and ensure HR data is secure, accurate, complete, up to date, available, and relevant for use.
Provide leadership and expertise in the development and execution of key activities including stakeholder engagement, comms and awareness training, operational or strategic risk assessments, policy or procedure design, review or uplift, incident response and remediation
- The position can be based in Australia (Adelaide/Brisbane/Perth), Singapore or Philippines
- Establish, review and optimise best practice privacy compliance and privacy risk management and practices across HR teams and key stakeholders executing HR functions.
- Support the effective operation of the HR privacy strategy and reporting with key stakeholders to manage risk and drive strategic and operational outcomes.
- Applies an understanding of HR functional terminology, theory, key processes, requirements and activities (e.g. risk and governance, systems, data, technology support, etc.).
- Manage privacy risk across domestic and international jurisdictions to maintain the quality and integrity of BHP data and ensure compliance with data security, privacy and legal requirements.
- Develop and construct reliable data infrastructure that collects, integrates and migrates data for subsequent business use and analysis.
- Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
- Translates corporate objectives into actionable plans, communicating, managing and analysing the implementation of those plans, and reporting back on their progress to facilitate the delivery of our strategy.
- Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence based decision making.
- Designs and implements governance/assurance practices and Management of Change procedures to control value outcomes across BHP.
- Identifies, implements and evaluates the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes.
- Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.
- Engages the capabilities of the entire organisation.
- Strives to achieve 100% safety, 100% customer value and 0% waste.
- Knows our customer and is obsessed with meeting their needs.
About You
- Proven experience in operational privacy compliance role.
- Bachelor's degree in law, or a related field (Master's preferred).
- Familiarity with cloud security, especially in AWS/Azure/GCP environments.
- Proven in-depth experience in Privacy Risk Management.
- Knowledge of risk frameworks, controls and risk treatment.
- Strong knowledge of security frameworks, standards, and best practices.
- Knowledge and understanding of data management best practices (CDMP, DMBOK).
- Relevant certifications in privacy (CIPP, CIPM CIPT, AIGP) preferable.
- Experience in a HR function within a large global enterprise preferable.
- Proven knowledge and experience in establishing and operating as part of a first line privacy compliance function or second line privacy office
- Proven knowledge and experience in privacy risk management and Privacy by Design (PbD) principles.
- Expert communication and influencing skills with a well-practiced ability to expound domestic and international privacy laws and regulations to inspire, engage and drive outcomes.
- Expert in identifying, translating qualitative and quantitative data into actionable information and insights.
- Deep regulatory and risk change management experience.
- Expert in practical problem solving
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.
If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.
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 [email protected].
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