Principal Corporate Affairs

**Job Title: Principal, Corporate Affairs, Jansen Stage 2**

**Based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan**, this work is Canadian based employment and expected to be performed from our Saskatoon office location.

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.

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**BHP Purpose**:
Our purpose is to bring people and resources together to build a better world. We believe we are successful when we work in partnership with communities to achieve long-term social, environmental, and economic outcomes. We aim to create and contribute to social value in the communities where we operate through the positive social and economic benefits generated by our core business, our engagement and advocacy on important issues, and our contribution as community partners.

**About the BHP Potash Business**:
In 2021, BHP approved a CA$7.5 billion investment in Jansen Stage 1 in Saskatchewan, Canada, which is aligned with their strategy of growing exposure to future facing commodities in world-class assets. The project is expected to produce 4.35 million tonnes of potash per year with initial production targeted for 2027, ramping up to full production over two years. Jansen potash project is located approximately 140 km southeast of Saskatoon. Potash opens a new front for growth and is an expandable resource that can support a century or more of operations. Potash provides BHP with greater diversification by commodity, country, and customer.

**About the Role**:
BHP’s _Our Requirements for Community_ requires all our operated assets to implement actions to better understand communities, effectively plan and implement our commitments and evaluate and measure our performance. This standard outlines the mandatory minimum performance requirements for social research and studies, including social impact and opportunity assessments; human rights impact assessments; community perception surveys; engagement activities; and complaints and grievance mechanisms. The day-to-day implementation of the requirements is managed by Corporate Affairs team members across BHP.

The **Principal **Corporate** Affairs, Jansen Stage 2 (JS2)** is a member of the Corporate Affairs team, and reports to the Manager, Corporate Affairs, Potash based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. They will work closely with both the CA Potash and cross-functional JS2 Selection and Definition Phase Studies (S/DPS) team. The Principal will provide technical expertise and hands-on leadership to safely and efficient plan CA strategies, plans and initiatives that fulfil BHP’s commitments, deliver the CA Potash JS2 study deliverables, mitigation actions and liaise closely with permitting and environment teams. This role holds certain responsibilities for the project's budget, scope, and schedule to optimize value for BHP.

The Principal is an individual contributor position who will play a key role in coordinating both internal and external input to complete risk assessments, external landscape analysis, including changing regulatory environment, and leverage current BHP public commitments, studies, surveys, requirements and plans to build out, replace, update, or expand to reflect changes or new conditions created by JS2. This work will be completed to meet the JS2 S/DPS timelines and deliverables.

**Key Accountabilities**:

- Builds off existing frameworks, Our Requirements and plans to deliver JS1 to develop and deliver the JS2 study deliverables and inputs on behalf of the global corporate affairs function (GCA)
- Engages the capabilities and recommendations of the entire GCA, including Communications, Global Human Rights and Social Investment, Indigenous Engagement, and Legal
- Explores and iteratively reassesses the best-fit solutions for future stages of Jansen while working closely with the JS1 delivery team
- Takes ownership of project decisions and outcomes and monitors and manages impacts to value across the project (e.g., social, environmental, commercial, political, etc.)
- Develops integrated project deliverables and integrates project and BAU work across projects through interfacing with both internal and external stakeholders
- Identifies opportunities to optimize value, manages associated risks and applies Optimized With / Optimized Without framework principles to create and preserve maximum value from projects across BHP
- Defines project objectives / schedules, identifies critical activities, monitors the project plan / schedule, and drives continuous improvement initiatives across projects at BHP Potash
- Develops plans to deliver projects in line with safety standards, requir