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 Team
HR is building a new intelligence capability to change how we understand our workforce and make decisions about our people.
Our ambition is to move beyond reporting what has happened. We want to understand why it is happening, what is likely to happen next, and where we should act. That means combining workforce data, behavioural science, advanced analytics and AI to tackle some of the most important questions facing HR and the business.
As part of our Workforce Intelligence team, you will help build this capability and embed it directly into the way HR operates. You will work at the intersection of people, data, technology and decision-making, turning complex workforce questions into intelligence leaders can act on.
This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys solving hard problems, is technically curious, and wants to help shape how AI and advanced analytics are used in HR.
About the Role
As a Principal Intelligence Partner, you will be the intelligence and analytics expert embedded alongside one of our HR value streams.
The problems are varied and consequential. You might be exploring whether we are attracting the talent BHP needs, what predicts whether new employees become productive and successful, or where friction exists across the employee journey.
Alternatively, you might be investigating why employees struggle to access the right HR support, what is driving conduct or employee relations cases, where early intervention could prevent issues from escalating, or identifying emerging workforce and industrial risks.
You will:
- Frame ambiguous business and workforce problems into questions that can be tested with data.
- Design and undertake sophisticated quantitative and qualitative analysis, moving beyond descriptive reporting into diagnostic, predictive and scenario-based intelligence.
- Build models and analytical products that help identify workforce risks, patterns, drivers and opportunities.
- Use and develop AI agents to perform analytical and research tasks, experimenting with new ways of interrogating, synthesising and reasoning across complex workforce data.
- Translate analysis into clear, decision-relevant insight for senior HR and business leaders.
- Work closely with HR, data science and technology teams to turn good analytical ideas into scalable, usable products.
- Help build the methods, practices and guardrails that underpin an emerging enterprise HR intelligence capability.
This is an individual contributor role with significant autonomy, suited to someone who wants to remain close to the technical work while having influence on significant enterprise decisions.
About You
We are looking for someone with genuine analytical depth and the curiosity to apply it to complex questions about people and organisations.
You will ideally bring:
- Advanced capability in statistics, research design and quantitative analysis, with a strong understanding of how to draw valid conclusions from complex and imperfect data.
- Experience applying techniques such as predictive modelling, multivariate analysis, experimentation, causal inference, workforce modelling or other advanced analytical methods.
- Strong capability using modern AI tools, with experience building or configuring AI agents and analytical workflows particularly valued.
- Experience with analytical and data languages and platforms such as Python, R, SQL and Snowflake Cortex, or equivalent technologies.
- The ability to critically evaluate data quality, methodology, model performance and the responsible use of AI.
- A track record of turning complex technical analysis into a clear story that influences senior, non-technical stakeholders.
- Experience working with HR or workforce data is highly regarded, although deep HR domain expertise is not essential.
You will have a relevant undergraduate qualification. A Master's degree or PhD in Psychology, particularly involving significant training in statistics and research methods, or postgraduate qualifications in behavioural science, statistics, econometrics, data science or a related quantitative discipline would be highly regarded.
Equally, we are interested in people who have built their technical depth through applied experience, particularly those who have developed AI agents or advanced analytical solutions that solve real business problems.
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 inclusion@bhp.com.