Manager, Internal StrategyConsulting (PACE)
- Work on Rio Tinto’s top priorities and deliver lasting sustainable impact
- Gain exposure across different product groups and functions to rapidly gain depth and breadth of experience of all parts of the business
- Interact with senior leaders, and assist in managing key relationships
- Permanent role based in Brisbane
About the role
We are looking for a Manager – PACE Consulting to join our established internal management consulting team. This is a crucial leadership position to ensure PACE accelerates the delivery of lasting value to our ‘clients’ by applying consulting experience, analytical insights, business knowledge and relationships.
This is a great opportunity for a team player with extensive strategy consulting experience to work on projects that deliver value to the business while enjoying a sustainable work life balance.
Reporting to the General Manager PACE Brisbane Hub, and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the PACE team, you will:
- Work with PACE leaders to identify and scope consulting projects which create value for product group assets and functions
- Autonomously deliver one or more projects at a time, managing the interfaces and ensuring strong collaboration with clients and their teams
- Develop and present project findings that will deliver sustainable short- and long-term outcomes
- Develop and lead the project work plan for a combined team of PACE and client team members to deliver outcomes
What you’ll bring
- Substantial experience leading projects in a top-tier consulting firm or complex, company-wide projects within a corporate environment: operational experience is highly regarded
- Extensive experience in leading and coaching teams to unleash their potential
- Demonstrated experience in conducting analysis, ensuring accurate and updated data from varying sources and interpreting complex results to find key opportunities
- Demonstrated ability to exercise critical thinking and challenge pre-established conceptions
- Good understanding of business improvement principles and practices
- Experience in project management and change management
- A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. MBA desirable
Why you want to join
- To work on shaping and delivering the key strategic priorities for one of the world’s largest companies in new and exciting areas
- To balance family and work in a manner that recognizes your priorities and flexibly matches your life stage
- To engage and influence senior leaders and make a meaningful difference to people’s lives today, and into the future
- To invest in a diverse long-term career
- Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world to progress.
What we offer
- 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
- 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
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
PACE is an internal management consultancy embedded within Rio Tinto, based in Montreal, Perth and Brisbane. It comprises a team of management consultants and Rio experienced team members focused on working with each part of the business on opportunities that will deliver the highest possible value. Rio Tinto has established PACE to support the business in many areas where it has previously sought external management consulting expertise.
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 Friday the 4th of February 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date.)