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SalaryDate: 12 Mar 2024
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Job Country: Canada
Job State/Province: Saskatchewan
Job Location/Region: Jansen
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
We are looking to hire a Principal Potash Analyst to join our team. You will be responsible for monitoring global fertiliser market trends and analysing potash industry dynamics to enable short term commercial decision making and long-term demand and price forecasting. This position will be influential in supporting potash sales from BHP’s Jansen operation in Canada with a focus on Americas markets.
Responsibilities include:
- Providing on-the-ground intelligence / tactical advise in key customer markets to support sales decisions.
- Building foresight on potential shifts in potash trade-flows, regional demand dynamics by product grade, assessing geopolitical landscape and developing a thorough Understanding of agriculture value chain.
- Maintain and improve long term potash demand modelling by monitoring underlying assumptions, tracking signposts and conducting studies as necessary.
- Establishing and maintain appropriate relationships within the broader Market Analysis & Economics function within BHP.
About You
Qualifications
- 1st class Honours degree, plus a postgraduate qualification preferred. Experience gained in mining industry with fertiliser market exposure will be an advantage.
Experience & Technical Competencies
The ideal candidate will have at least 8-10 years of experience, strong academic qualifications and a demonstrable track record in analysis and forecasting in a macroeconomic context. Of particular importance are:
- Prior knowledge on the fertiliser markets, practiced in a current or recent role.
- Familiarity with potash product grades and downstream value chain.
- Experience in long term forecasting under conditions of uncertainty.
- Familiarity with economic and financial databases and modelling software, e.g. Bloomberg; CEIC; PowerBI would be a plus.
- Advanced data visualisation skills.
- A strong research network within the agriculture and fertiliser markets.
- An ability to extract actionable insights under complex macroeconomic settings.
- Strong communication and stakeholder and management skills to brief technical and non-technical team members in the company.
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.
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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.
