Principal Advisor - S2P Delivery

Principal Advisor – S2P Delivery – Brisbane

• Great opportunity to join a global organisation at the forefront of mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• This role will leverage your strong SAP functional expertise and expose you to exciting technology and allow you to partner with multiple global teams and organisations
• Permanent position based in Brisbane

About the role

We are looking for a Principal Advisor – S2P Delivery to provide Project/Programme/Delivery services including oversight of the global S2P Portfolio Tracking mechanisms, including governance, prioritisation, alignment to strategy and financials management; functional delivery of a range of global project initiatives within S2P; escalation point and progress tracker for escalations across IS&T, from global key stakeholders; manage global stakeholders of various levels and influence (internal and external) and foster a culture of “celebrating each other’s successes”

This role is a great opportunity for a highly experienced Source to Pay (S2P) Functional Delivery Manager to join a market leader and be a key part of further progressing “Source/Purchase to Pay” solutions into Rio Tinto on a global scale. This role will leverage your strong SAP functional expertise.

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 IS&T Business Partner, Source to Pay, and working in collaborative and exciting environment within our global IS&T Team, you will:

• Be responsible for the S2P Portfolio Tracking mechanisms, including managing governance, alignment to strategy, prioritisation, pipeline meetings and proactive risk management focus. Assisting Solution Architects with support if/as requested.
• Provide functional solution expertise and targeted process analysis to work with global stakeholders across Product Groups and Functions to:

• support shaping of requirements, aligned to business and systems strategy
• oversee agile delivery (minor works) and facilitate benefit realisation

• Track and manage escalations from key global Stakeholders, relevant to any part of IS&T, and work with the relevant IS&T Team to resolve in a timely manner
• Manage stakeholder relationships, facilitate meetings and prepare related comms materials
• Build a culture where success is celebrated, ideas are shared and continuous improvement aligned to business priorities is an ongoing focus.

What you’ll bring

• Programme management experience - requirements, scope management, risk management, time/cost/quality, agile, stakeholder management, analytical
• Consulting experience, functional solution expertise, agile delivery, process analysis
• SAP MM experience – a number of full lifecycle implementations; functional experience of S2P SAAS solutions will also be valuable, e.g. Ariba
• Programme Tracking, Scheduling tools experience (Financials/ project accounting, Risk management)
• Strong presentation skills – to succinctly, yet comprehensively, capture all elements
• Strong Stakeholder management skills at all levels

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 almost 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 will be working

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) 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.