Manager Internal Strategy Consulting (PACE)

Manager – Internal Management Consulting (PACE)

• Work on Rio Tinto’s top priorities and deliver lasting sustainable impact
• Gain exposure across different product groups and functions to rapidly gain depth and breadth of experience of all parts of the business
• Interact with senior leaders, and assist in managing key relationships
• 12-month fixed term role based in Brisbane

About the role

PACE is an internal management consultancy embedded within Rio Tinto, with hubs in Montreal, Singapore, Perth and Brisbane. The PACE team is a diverse team of passionate problem solvers, with individuals who have joined from internal product group or function teams working alongside former management consultants who have joined from leading strategy consulting houses. Rio Tinto established PACE to support the business in many areas where it has previously sought external management consulting expertise.

PACE is seeking a Manager – PACE Consulting to join our established internal management consulting team in the Brisbane Hub. This is a crucial leadership position to ensure PACE delivers on its mandate to accelerate the delivery of lasting value to Rio Tinto by applying high quality problem solving capabilities, strong communication skills and business acumen to Rio Tinto’s highest value challenges and opportunities.

This is a great opportunity for a team player with extensive strategy consulting experience to work on high profile, diverse and challenging projects while enjoying a sustainable work life balance.

Reporting to the General Manager PACE Brisbane Hub, you will:

• Work with PACE leaders to identify and scope consulting projects which create value for product group assets and functions
• Autonomously deliver one or more projects at a time, managing the interfaces and ensuring strong collaboration with clients and their teams
• Develop and present project findings that will deliver sustainable short and long term value
• Develop and lead the project work plan for a combined team of PACE and client team members

What you’ll bring

• Substantial experience leading projects in a top-tier consulting firm;operational experience is highly regarded
• Extensive experience in leading and coaching teams to unleash their potential
• Demonstrated experience in conducting analysis, ensuring accurate and updated data from varying sources and interpreting complex results to find key opportunities
• Demonstrated ability to exercise critical thinking and challenge pre-established conceptions across a range of project types, including strategy, transformation and business improvement
• Good understanding of business improvement principles and practices
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. MBA desirable

Why you want to join

• To work on shaping and delivering the key strategic priorities for one of the world’s leading resource companies in new and exciting areas
• To balance family and work in a manner that recognizes your priorities and flexibly matches your lifestage
• To engage and influence senior leaders and make a meaningful difference to people’s lives today, and into the future
• To invest in a diverse long term career
• Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world to progress. 

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority 
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto 
• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family 
• Attractive share ownership plan 
• Company provided insurance cover 
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options 
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 
• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support 
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave) 
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more) 
• Possible domestic relocation assistance 

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome – they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.

Applications close on Friday the 7^th October 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date.)