Manager Project Delivery - Technical

Rio Tinto

Posted on:  15th May 2026
  • Lead complex, enterprise‑scale technical project delivery at the heart of a major SAP S/4HANA transformation

  • Provide clarity and assurance across data, integration, security and platform workstreams

  • Influence outcomes at scale, working with senior leaders, architects and delivery partners

About the role

As Manager Project Delivery- Technical, you will provide coaching across the technical delivery streams of Rio Tinto’s Modern ERP (SAP S/4HANA) program. This role is critical to ensuring the technology foundations are planned, integrated and delivered in a controlled, predictable and business‑ready way.

This role is designed for an experienced Project Manager leader who excels at leading complex delivery rather than building solutions themselves. You’ll bring strong delivery discipline, clear governance and confidence in navigating technical complexity—ensuring teams stay aligned, risks are proactively managed and delivery outcomes support a successful business go‑live.

You’ll lead and coach a team of Project Managers delivering technical workstreams such as data, integration, reporting, security and environments, while working closely with architects, IS&T teams and Systems Integrators to maintain alignment between design intent and execution.

What you’ll be doing

  • Lead and coach a team of Delivery Managers delivering technical ERP workstreams end‑to‑end

  • Own integrated project delivery planning, including schedules, resourcing, sequencing, and dependencies

  • Maintain strong oversight of delivery risks, issues, and cross‑stream impacts, resolving barriers early

  • Ensure technical solutions are stable, integrated, and ready to support testing, adoption, and go‑live

  • Partner closely with architects, IS&T teams, and GPOs to align technical strategy with delivery execution

  • Drive delivery performance across scope, cost, time, and quality through clear governance and reporting

  • Manage Systems Integrator and vendor performance within a commercial delivery model

  • Provide confident day‑to‑day leadership by setting priorities, unblocking teams, and enabling delivery success

What you’ll bring

  • Strong program and project delivery leadership experience in complex, enterprise environments

  • Direct accountability for delivery planning, scheduling, resourcing, and performance

  • Experience delivering large‑scale digital or ERP programs (ERP experience is essential)

  • Technical delivery fluency, with the ability to engage confidently across data, integration, and platforms

  • Strong risk, dependency, and issue management capability across multi‑stream delivery

  • Experience working with Systems Integrators and vendors in commercially governed environments

  • SAP experience is highly desirable, ideally SAP S/4HANA

  • A collaborative leadership style that builds trust, inclusion, and high‑performing teams

What We Offer

  • Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work

  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

  • Competitive base salary with annual incentive program

  • Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance

  • Attractive share ownership plan

  • Career development & education assistance

  • Flexible working arrangements

  • Be part of Rio Tinto’s global Modern ERP transformation, contributing directly to one of the organisation’s most significant multi‑year programs

  • Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support

  • Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

Where You’ll Be Working

You’ll join the Modern ERP Program — a multi‑disciplinary team bringing together technology, process, data and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We’re modernising a 20‑year‑old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and ignite innovation.

 This work supports our people across global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on work that really matters. By simplifying and digitising how the organisation runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision‑making and AI‑enabled transformation.

About Rio TintoRio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Respect and InclusionAt 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.

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