Principal Advisor Remuneration

Principal Advisor Remuneration

• Opportunity shape and influence how Rio Tinto remunerate employees

• Opportunity for direct succession into HR leadership role

• Permanent, senior level role based in Perth or Brisbane

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor Remuneration based in Perth or Brisbane to support the development and implementation of Rio Tinto Remuneration policies and programs. The strategies and systems adopted in Rio Tinto to remunerate employees at all levels is critical in being able to attract, retain and mobilise high calibre individuals.

Reporting to the Manager Employee Remuneration APAC, you will be responsible to:

• Provide technical guidance to various stakeholder groups and employees within the business
• Provide coaching and mentoring to the Employee Remuneration APAC team on technical remuneration concepts, designs and implementation.
• Researches/monitors developments in reward design, systems and structures and ensure compliance with legal
• Works closely with the procurement and vendor management teams, to manage and ensure the provision of services by vendors
• Manage rewards related projects and studies to ensure latest innovative reward strategy and plan design trends and opportunities for integration into Rio Tinto
• Support a geographically diverse client group across multiple APAC locations, including Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Mongolia, India and China.
• Manage eligibility appeals and manages employee exception handling from the standard policy
• Implement training and communication programs for managers and other employees.
• Liaise and partner with other regional remuneration teams to ensure best practices and cross-collaboration.
• Establish and maintain key network of contacts to facilitate the exchange of remuneration information.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in HR, Industrial Relations or a Business-related discipline
• Extensive experience in remuneration, performance related discipline within a global organisation
• Demonstrated experience in delivering projects for senior stakeholders, clients, business leaders, other parts of the HR structure
• Strong understanding of market trends within Australia, New Zealand and Asia
• Confidence and ability to partner and influence stakeholders at all levels internal and external to the business.
• Extensive knowledge of contemporary HR principles, philosophies, and relevant laws/regulations governing remuneration (job analysis, market pricing, market analysis, fixed and variable compensation plan design)
• HRIS experience, including experience with web-enabled performance management tools and/or platforms

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 competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees & immediate family
• 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)
• Domestic re-location if required

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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 want you to be you. We want everyone, everywhere, to feel their voice is heard and respected and we’re committed to fostering a culture where individual differences—whatever they may be—are appreciated and valued. It’s what makes us safer, more productive, improves our decision-making, and helps us to create better relationships with our communities. 

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

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for a role you must complete all pre-screening questions and medicals.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.