Senior Manager Business Improvement - (ESPS)

Senior Manager Business Improvement– (ESPS)

• Be part of a group that is safety & results driven, while valuing inclusion
• Join a global network & diverse team where people are encouraged to offer unique perspectives, build knowledge and connections 
• Opportunity to lead a global business improvement team
• 12-month contract based in either Brisbane or Perth

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for an experienced, adaptable, and collaborative leader to lead our global Business Improvement team across our ESPS (Employee Support and Payroll Service) function.

Being one of Rio Tinto’s leaders means helping to run a company that drives human progress. You are writing the next chapter of our story.

You lead some of the industry’s best and brightest minds, working to solve the challenges of the 21st century. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop are broad and exciting.

This role is a great opportunity to look beyond existing methodologies and ways of working to define and resolve complex problems.

Reporting to the General Manager, Strategy, Group Services, you will provide leadership and support for:

• Business improvement across payroll and HR processes conducted by Group Services
• Standardisation, process automation and new payroll system implementations
• Program, Project, and business improvement initiatives delivery
• Change management and communications
• Various ad hoc tasks

What you’ll bring

• Commitment to the safety & wellbeing of yourself and your team
• Good knowledge of Payroll & HR processes as delivered by Group Services for Rio Tinto
• Strong experience in driving business improvements, projects in complex environment
• Experience in partnering and building engagement with wide and diverse stakeholder groups
• Good understanding of how Rio Tinto works & familiarity with Group Services operating model
• Flexibility and ability to cover wide range of focus areas & operate at multiple levels of detail
• Awareness & familiarity of new advancing payroll technologies and data management strategies
• Experience leading global teams and aligning teams with consistent messaging/ visioning etc.
• Experience in delivering programmes of work, whilst ensuring appropriate governance
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams to build rapport & support delivery outcomes
• Practical & pragmatic delivery mindset
• Empathy, passion, & drive to deliver successful outcomes
• Ability to influence and problem solve

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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

Where you will be working

This role will be part of the Group Services team; this is a global team with team members across all major hubs. The role will require working in partnership and alignment with our HR, IS&T partners and other regional teams and businesses across Rio Tinto.

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.

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.

Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where you are supported to drive positive change and help make a difference in our employees and leaders’ everyday lives.

This ad will close on Friday 27 January 2023 – Rio Tinto reserve the right to close earlier

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