Portfolio Manager - Cyber and Technology Platforms

Portfolio Manager – Cyber and Technology Platforms

• Great opportunity to join a global mining organisation offering outstanding personal development and career opportunities
• Join us during this exciting time of growth and transformation and contribute to success of our PMO team
• Permanent opportunity based in Brisbane

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Portfolio Manager – Cyber and Technology Platforms to work in a partnership with the relevant service line owners for the delivery of the Technology Platforms and Cyber project portfolios in APAC E. This role ensures we have the right resources to safely deliver projects on-time and on-budget, in a consistent and efficient way, using the appropriate methodologies.

Reporting to the Manager, PMO & Delivery APAC East and working in a collaborative and exciting environment right within our APAC East PMO team, you will:

• Lead and manage a diverse team of Programme Managers and Project Managers to deliver Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) funded Programme and Projects.
• Build and sustain a team culture of care, curiosity and courage, phycological safety, accountability and an ownership mindset, excellence, teamwork, collaboration, and continuous improvement through leading by example every day
• Build teamwork & collaboration across other organisational teams that shares success and leverages capability to meet challenges in your Project portfolio
• Coach and align your teams activities with best-practice project management methodologies (Waterfall, Agile)
• Maintain a forward portfolio plan of projects that you review and update regularly as business needs and context changes
• Facilitate and coordinate activities across the portfolio in partnership with the BP to ensure successful delivery of the portfolio of work

What you’ll bring

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary qualification in Project Management, Information Technology or relevant engineering discipline
• Proven experience in leading and nurturing a large and diverse teams of Project Delivery professionals
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders and leaders across multiple business functions

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Demonstrated experience successfully delivering projects in remote and isolated environments
• Familiarity with the application of HSE principles in the execution of projects
• Experience of business analysis and organisational change frameworks
• Experience with Agile & DevOps delivery methodologies

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• 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
• Brand new modern office building that is set up for you to do your best work and have a great time doing so, with breakout areas, little nooks, and quiet places to retreat (and we have a BBQ at level 20!)
• 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.

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

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.