Specialist HR Privacy | Kuala Lumpur or Manila

BHP; Manila; On-site; PHP 800,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonuses

Employee share program

Flexible working

Parental leave

Extended leave

Parent rooms

Job summary

BHP is seeking an HR Privacy Specialist to advance privacy risk management and governance across HR. You will engage stakeholders, apply Privacy by Design, and ensure data security and regulatory compliance for domestic and international operations.

The role requires deep regulatory knowledge, strong communication, and practical problem-solving to translate laws into effective HR policies and controls.

Qualifications

• Experience in privacy compliance within an HR context.
• Ability to translate regulations into policy and controls.
• Knowledge of privacy laws across jurisdictions.
• Strong communication to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to privacy risk management and governance across HR.
• Engage stakeholders to manage privacy risks and drive outcomes.
• Apply PbD principles to HR processes and data handling.
• Provide SME guidance on domestic and international privacy requirements.
• Identify causes, evaluate solutions, and implement structured fixes.
• Support data-driven decision making with analyses and reports.

Skills

Privacy compliance

PbD principles

Regulatory knowledge

Policy translation

Influencing skills

Risk management

Problem solving

Data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in law

Master's preferred

Job 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.

About the Role

The HR Privacy Specialist contributes to the development and execution of key activities including privacy risk management, stakeholder engagement, communications and awareness training, operational or strategic risk assessments, policy or procedure design, review or uplift, incident response and remediation to create value through process improvement and ensure HR data is secure, accurate, complete, up to date, available, and relevant for use.

In this role, you will also have the opportunity to:

• Contribute to best practice privacy compliance and privacy risk management and practices across HR teams and key stakeholders executing HR functions.
• Support the effective operation of the HR privacy strategy and reporting with key stakeholders to manage risk and drive strategic and operational outcomes.
• Applies an understanding of HR functional terminology, theory, key processes, requirements and activities (e.g. risk and governance, systems, data, technology support, etc.).
• Provides subject matter expertise to stakeholders to manage privacy risk across domestic and international jurisdictions to maintain the quality and integrity of BHP data and ensure compliance with data security, privacy and legal requirements.
• Determines the underlying cause of problems and evaluates multiple solutions to ensure a planned and structured approach to solving complex problems.
• Sources information, plans and conducts analyses to support evidence based decision making.
• Contributes to the development, execution and monitoring of governance/assurance practices and Management of Change procedures to control value outcomes across BHP.
• Identifies, implements and evaluates the success of continuous improvement activities/initiatives to improve the safety, effectiveness and efficiency of BHP systems and processes.
• Applies an understanding of the business context, BHP operating model and ways of working to enhance decision making, productivity and value chain performance.

About You

• Bachelor's degree in law, or a related field (Master's preferred).
• Experience in operational privacy compliance role.
• Proven knowledge and experience in establishing and operating as part of a first line privacy compliance function or second line privacy office.
• Proven knowledge and experience in privacy risk management and Privacy by Design (PbD) principles.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of the regulatory environment, coupled with the ability to translate and communicate regulations into policy, procedure, control and executive/board level messages incl AI, Data, Privacy etc.
• Expert communication and influencing skills with a well-practiced ability to expound domestic and international privacy laws and regulations to inspire, engage and drive outcomes.
• Deep regulatory and risk change management experience.
• Expert in practical problem solving.
• Expert in identifying, translating qualitative and quantitative data into actionable information and insights.

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.

• attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program.
• flexible working options
• a generous paid parental leave policy
• other extended leave entitlements
• 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 includesgender,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.