Lead Principal - BHP Ventures | US

 

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

BHP Ventures is our dedicated internal venture capital investment unit, established to build and manage a portfolio of technology investments that not only help accelerate BHP’s innovation activities today, but also seeds future growth options for the company to thrive for decades ahead.

 

BHP Ventures works with teams across BHP and with our external partners to generate opportunities that support the company’s most important strategic priorities, engaging as closely with our C-suite as we do with our start-ups to drive mutually beneficial outcomes.

 

Our investment strategy is oriented around growth by accessing cutting-edge technologies that augment our current operations, enhancing our resource base in nickel, copper and other “future-facing” commodities, expanding into new market verticals and horizontals, and seeding potential new business lines.

About the Role

 

 

We are seeking a Lead Principal to join our investment team within BHP Ventures.

 

As a Lead Principal you will be a critical and highly visible member of our global team, driving deal flow and portfolio management in order to create strategic, financial and insight returns for the enterprise. In addition to sourcing, evaluating, and leading select minority investments, you will also manage these relationships on an ongoing basis to achieve strategic outcomes for BHP, informing the strategy of business units and delivering against specific opportunities through partnerships, investments, or other strategic relationships.

 

You will be responsible for leading a team of investment professionals across end-to-end investing activities; from deal sourcing through due diligence, deal management, negotiation and execution, building portfolio company value, and managing exits in early-stage ventures. The Lead Principal will also play a leadership role in identifying strategic investment areas that will enhance our capabilities or enable new products and services whilst also developing investment frameworks for new solutions and technology domains.  This role will require articulating enterprise capability needs in close engagement and collaboration with key internal stakeholders at BHP as well as external ecosystem partners.

 

Every day you show up at work, be that at home, in the office or anywhere else, you’ll demonstrate a commitment to BHP’s Values. That means an overriding commitment to health, safety, respect, integrity, environmental responsibility and sustainable development and an obligation to comply with Our Charter Values.

Your key responsibilities as a Lead Principal at BHP Ventures will include:

 

• Gaining fluency in, and meaningful exposure to, key mining industry concepts and cutting-edge technologies of strategic relevance to BHP, as well as developing relationships within the tech investing ecosystem that enable you to identify, assess and access attractive investment opportunities.
• Undertaking independent market analysis to develop new and existing investment theses,  identifying market trends and specific opportunities across multiple verticals, to guide our investment strategy towards maximizing both financial and strategic returns to BHP.
• Qualifying, screening, prioritizing, establishing relationships with, and tracking a high volume of ventures to develop our pipeline of new investment opportunities for BHP.
• Leading a team of investment professional to conduct end-to-end due diligence activities including market and competitive research, financial analysis and modeling, due diligence, obtaining venture and founding team references from customers and other investors, authoring investment memoranda, and presenting investment recommendations to our Executive Leadership Committee.
• Managing the investment processes from start to finish, including coordinating with business units, legal and finance teams, deal structuring and negotiation, and ensuring transaction timelines and milestones are met.
• Engaging our portfolio companies and maintain relationships with key external and internal stakeholders to activate strategic collaboration with BHP.
• Synthesizing and disseminating insights from your market engagement and end-to-end investment activities to drive additional revenue and savings across BHP.
• Growing and maintaining our int