Specialist Talent Acquisition | Fixed Term / Permanent | Adelaide

Company description:

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.

Job description:

About the Role

This position will work with leaders to create equal opportunity recruitment strategies and campaigns aimed at identifying, shortlisting, hiring and onboarding job-ready candidates. The successful candidate will identify, plan and manage external talent pools to fill business critical roles while applying an understanding of business context, the BHP operating model, and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.

Reporting to the Lead HR Business Continuity, the Specialist Talent Acquisition is responsible for the strategic sourcing and acquisition of talent to support business needs. In addition, you will:

• Coach leaders on the Talent Acquisition strategy and how this is a lever to achieving business priorities, including how the use of fair and equitable strategies minimizes risks (such as unconscious bias) throughout the recruitment process.
• Manage the selection and assessment process, in accordance with BHP procedures, guidelines and relevant regulatory, legislative, cultural and regional considerations.
• Evaluate and continuously enhances the effectiveness of recruitment strategies.
• Measure and report on data trends to facilitate fair and equitable candidate outcomes, developing or advancing recruitment practices and processes to address issues as appropriate.
• Apply market and industry data to support delivery of defined sourcing strategies.
• Follow the sourcing strategy through to completion, partnering with key stakeholders to understand and prioritize the relevant talent segment plan.
• Contribute to the development of innovative and targeted engagement strategies, creating a point of difference in the felt experience for candidates and customers.
• Apply appropriate selection methodologies to qualify candidates through to candidate talent segment pools in alignment with the sourcing strategy.

As a successful candidate you will possess the following:

• Be an experienced recruiter who ideally has exposure to the resources sector or a similar heavy industry.
• Have a growth mindset and learning agility.
• Understand and apply BHP ways of working.
• Understand and manage stakeholders and their priorities; Influence acceptable outcomes.
• Guide negotiations to an acceptable outcome based on pre-determined stakeholder requirements.
• Collaborate with key decision makers across the organization to implement changes that will drive results.

This role is based in Adelaide on a Monday-Friday roster, offering a quality standard of living without the high costs of most other Australian capital cities. Adelaide offers a Mediterranean climate, beach-side lifestyle, cosmopolitan cafés and restaurants and world-class wine regions just an hour away. All this plus an annual international festivals and events calendar make Adelaide a vibrant, cultured, friendly environment to live, work and play in.

Application close on Friday, 15 Mar 2024

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.

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 *********@bhp.com.