Principal Advisor - Growth and Development

Principal Advisor - Growth and Development

• Be part of a group that is safety driven (psychological and physical) and values inclusion and diversity
• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Grow your career in a global role, with exposure across international stakeholder groups including senior leadership and Subject Matter Experts

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

Rio Tinto’s Copper Group are seeking a Principal Advisor to join our Copper Growth and Development team. Based in Brisbane Australia, you will support the Copper Group’s future growth projects with an initial focus on our Oyu Tolgoi project in Mongolia.

This is a great opportunity for an exceptional communicator to join a unique team, working on a blend of commercial strategy, communications, and external affairs. Your stakeholder group is global and diverse, providing you with the opportunity to utilise your strong stakeholder engagement skills to build an international network including Senior Leaders, Subject Matter Experts and various external groups.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the General Manager - Growth and Development you will join a small, diverse team, with an inclusive culture. Exposure across a global stakeholder group will further provide you with a platform to grow your career within Rio Tinto. You will:

• Provide insights and market knowledge to help execute a multi-year strategy to support growth by improving OT and Rio Tinto’s reputation with the Mongolian public, special publics, key project stakeholders and project partners.
• Work with a range of international and domestic agency partners in supporting the delivery of the above strategy including through research, message and narrative development, campaigns and advertising. Lead selected agency relationships, including ongoing monitoring, quality assurance and rigorous assessment of performance.
• Support the development and delivery of Mongolia country strategy and other key programmes, strategies and plans through effective strategic thinking and project management.
• Analyze and evaluate key processes and procedures, relationships and approaches to determine effectiveness of current team and business activity.
• Undertake a wide range of research and analysis to understand emerging issues, trends and intelligence to influence the execution of the above strategy and ensure its effectiveness is constantly reviewed and improved.
• Support the development of cross-disciplinary team structures to develop and execute content in support of business activity, utilizing internal Rio Tinto and OT channels.
• Provide honest, high quality advice and insights to senior leaders, draft strategic business and strategy improvement advice for consideration by senior leaders.
• Deputize for line leader when necessary, including representing the team at senior leadership meetings and with key stakeholders

What you’ll bring

Your exceptional written and verbal communication skills across English and Mongolian will see you excel in this role. Your ability to build trust, rapport, and manage diverse stakeholder groups is essential. Due to the dynamic nature of this role, you will be adaptable and hold strong organisational skills. You will have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Tertiary qualifications (Communications, Humanities, Business, Finance, Public Policy or other relevant field) or alternative demonstrated experience
• Masters qualifications (desirable, not essential)
• Fluency in Mongolian and English – written and spoken
• Demonstrated experience in mining, coupled with a thorough understanding of Mongolia and developing markets will be highly regarded
• Ability and experience interacting effectively with leaders at the highest level of an organisation
• Strong analytical skills including the ability to assess, define and measure the effectiveness of processes and policies to make recommendations

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 members.
• 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 everything life throws at us (annual leave, paid parental leave, sick leave, carer’s leave).
• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).
• Relocation assistance, as required.

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 outcomes and meet opportunities.

Where you’ll be working The role will be based in our Brisbane hub but will have a global responsibility, some travel will be expected where conditions allow.

The Rio Tinto Copper group is a global organisation with operations in the U.S. (Kennecott Utah Copper, “RTKC”, and Resolution), Mongolia (Oyu Tolgoi) and Western Australia (Winu Cu-Au project). The portfolio also includes interests in a non-managed joint venture in Chile, in addition to exploration & evaluation interests and other minor investments.

Our operations across the globe including a range of open pit and underground mines that supply key materials to global markets. Our copper operations supply products in China, Japan and the US which plays an important role in almost every home, office and vehicle.

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 16 of August 2023 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).