Principal Advisor – Remuneration Product Owner

Principal Advisor – Remuneration Product Owner

• Supports the Rio Tinto global operations, stakeholders, and processes
• Works in a collaborative and dynamic environment
• Permanent role, flexible location

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor, Reward Product Owner who will support the critical delivery of digital solutions, which is linked to the Group’s short-term and long-term strategic priorities for Reward, and in turn delivers sustainable growth in shareholder value.

Reporting to the HR Systems Manager, you will be involved with the following:

• Contribute to the wider strategic vision, goals, roadmaps and growth opportunities for our business, with a focus on our Reward and Remuneration digital ecosystem
• Experience in agile ways of working, ideally ScaledAgile Framework (SAFe) and SCRUM
• Translating Reward’s philosophies and practices it into our digital landscape; making technical design and architecture decisions that align with business and user requirements
• Work in close partnership with business owners and stakeholders to ensure they are engaged, aligned, supportive of direction and provide early feedback to improve value delivery
• Defining and driving best practice and ensuring that quality is built into solution delivery of Remuneration systems with particular attention on managing and protecting sensitive and confidential data
• Leading structured Solution Architecture and design forums (with both technical and non-technical resources) to ensure clear decision making and governance
• Striving for technical excellence by challenging the status quo, researching and sharing new techniques and approaches
• Building and refining the Reward product backlog for digital solutions, translating business needs into priorities for technical delivery ensuring great outcomes for our customers
• Leading technology assessments, continuous improvements projects, pilots, proof of concepts/feasibility assessments, IT projects (as relevant) and integration projects related to Reward
• Growing the architectural capabilities of technical team members through coaching and mentoring. 

About you

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

• Experience leading technical change in a large organisation for Compensation Solutions, such as Cornerstone OnDemand, Tier 1 Human Capital Management Solutions or other Reward and Recognition SaaS solutions
• Experience architecting, building, and operating highly scalable, available, performant and secure solutions as it relates to Reward
• Experience managing business stakeholder expectations
• Understanding business/customer needs & objectives, translating for delivery teams to deliver iterative value
• Strong collaborator, working well in a team environment 
• Comfortable facilitating workshops and training 
• Clear written and verbal communication skills 
• Growth mindset with a focus on continual learning & development 

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
• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
• 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 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

New Zealand Aluminium Smelters Limited (NZAS) is Rio Tinto’s only New Zealand site. We are pioneers in producing low carbon, high purity aluminium essential to human progress.

We pride ourselves on being a world leader in quality aluminium products, founded on our deep commitment to safety and operational excellence which we believe is created by the best people in the industry.

NZAS offers a supportive team environment, and an attractive remuneration package including a number of employee benefits. Working within a dynamic and friendly culture, in an organisation renowned for its world class safety standards and high quality product, this is an opportunity not to be missed.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 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.

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

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

Applications close on Friday 21 October 2022. (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).

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.