Principal Advisor Commercial, Closure

Principal Advisor Commercial, Closure

• Two exciting opportunities to join a global team in an emerging part of the extractives sector
• Meaningful work contributing to commercial opportunity generation, entrepreneurial thinking and business development
• Bring your passion for Environment, Social and Governance matters
• Role locations based in:
  • APAC region (Brisbane or Perth, Australia)
  • Paris, France or London, UK

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for Principal Advisor Commercial team members, to join the global Rio Tinto Closure team, contributing to the development of new measures of success and creative value proposals in order to transition the mining industry mindset from “Mine closure” to “Mine redevelopment and renewal”. We have an opportunity in the Asia Pacific and an opportunity in the EMEA regions.

The Rio Tinto Global Closure Group manages and endeavours to minimise Rio Tinto’s closure liabilities in the long-term and to find better ways to operate our mines, infrastructure, and plants post-mining activities. Our aim is to reduce the physical burden of closure but also to consider post-closure alternative economic activities much earlier in the operating life of an asset.

This is an exciting opportunity to embrace a regenerative approach, create self-sustaining post-production ecosystems through landscape restoration and repurposing solutions into execution planning for operational and legacy assets and make an impact by changing the view of mining in society and bringing economic and social value.

Reporting to the General Manager Commercial and working in a collaborative community within the Closure Commercial team, you will partner with our regional leadership teams to drive the strategic and commercial initiatives for the Closure Group for the respective region.

Specifically you will operate within two groups of responsibilities:

Regulatory and Legal

• Develop strategic plans to understand and anticipate regulatory trends.
• Support engagement and provide negotiation frameworks with external stakeholders including government and environmental regulators.
• Liaise and engage with Rio Tinto External Affairs team to ensure macro-level legal, regulatory trends are understood, risks are clearly identified and mitigated and reflected in Closure strategy.
• Maintain and improve regulatory tracking tools.

Commercial, Business Development and Transactional support

• Provide support to the development and integration of closure planning strategies with the asset owners focussed on reducing liabilities.
• Manage the process for identifying opportunities, completing due diligence, provide recommendations to the Senior Leadership group at Rio Tinto.
• Contribute to investment committee recommendations and approval processes.
• Drive negotiation strategies, transaction structuring and execution of agreements and other transaction-related legal documentation.
• Support the management and enhancement of relationships with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Build Closure best practices framework.

What you’ll bring

To be successful in this role, you will bring a commitment to the safety of yourself and your team. Teamwork is key for this global team, whilst having the ability to work autonomously, bring your entrepreneurial mindset and strong attention to detail.

Your academic qualification of either Mining Engineering, Finance or Environment will be beneficial to this role. 

It is important for you to bring your valued experience from the Natural Resources or Industrials sectors as well as negotiating and executing transactions.

Your success in this role will be accentuated through your critical thinking to assess commercial opportunities, as well as your interpersonal skills, strong team ethic and collaborative working style.

You will benefit through your passion for ESG trends and challenges, sustainable economic diversification and nature-based solutions.

French language skills are desirable for the role supporting the EMEA regions, however not mandatory.

Australia 

What we offer 

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your 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
• 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

Rio 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 and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working

There are two role opportunities available, one based in the APAC region (Perth or Brisbane, Australia) and the other based in the EMEA region.

Rio Tinto Closure safely transforms Rio Tinto’s end of life mining, processing and infrastructure assets by developing innovative and sustainable solutions to leave a positive closure legacy. We collaborate with all parts of Rio Tinto to focus on maximizing post operational opportunities, de-risking and reducing the scale of closure liabilities and executing existing and near term closures at optimal cost. 

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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 24 September 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)