Responsible Value Chains Lead

Responsible Value Chains Lead: Third Party Risk Management

• Join a global network and diverse team where people are encouraged to offer unique perspectives and build knowledge and connections

• Opportunity to be part of a dynamic, passionate, and inclusive team

• Permanent opportunity based in Perth or Brisbane

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

As part of our commitment to Best Operator and Impeccable Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG), Rio Tinto continues to evolve its Ethics and Compliance third-party risk management (TPRM) capabilities. We are seeking a Responsible Value Chains Lead: to provide focused leadership on how value chain risk, in certain key global categories and particularly those tied to community-based procurement are identified, assessed, monitored, and reported.

This newly created role will strengthen a growing workstream with high visibility across the business, requiring both technical expertise and the ability to engage diverse stakeholders.

Based preferably in Perth, this position offers the opportunity to shape Rio Tinto’s approach to responsible sourcing and risk-informed decision-making in key categories and among key groups.

Reporting to the General Manager, Third Party Risk Management, you will:

• Be a subject matter expert in value chain risk identification, assessment, and risk mitigation in key categories such as, but not limited to, renewables and key groups such as local communities

• Advise the GM TPRM on opportunities to enhance risk-based TPRM procedures

• Cooperate with our specialist TPRM due diligence advisors, various commercial and our Communities and Social Performance teams, and the Environmental Area of Excellence to produce accurate and well-timed due diligence assessments

• Provide considered risk opinions to management and the GM TPRM on practical matters relating to risk appetite setting using your subject matter experience and knowledge

• Lead planned projects to align TPRM master data management with various relevant obligatory and voluntary reporting requirements to which Rio Tinto is subject

• Design content and support Ethics and Compliance colleagues in delivering relevant training

• Represent the E&C TPRM function on relevant internal forums and working groups, and report to designated governance structures

• Support and attend the Group TPRM Committee, working closely with the GM TPRM to plan and prepare papers and make presentations

• Monitor key risk mitigations of select third-party engagements and advise management of identified concerns in a timely manner

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Be Australia-based, with a preference for Perth

• Strong conceptual skills with a practical and outcomes-based mindset

• A tertiary qualification and/or at least 10 years’ experience in ethics and compliance, risk management, business intelligence, or sustainability consultancy

• Experience in value chain risk analysis, with ESG assurance and reporting highly beneficial

• Familiarity with machine-assisted due diligence platforms such as Compliance Catalyst, Sayari, and others

• At least 7 years of risk management experience in multinational corporations

• Clear communication skills—both verbal and written

• Ideally, prior experience in sustainability, ethics, compliance, and risk management in global corporations

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

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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 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 situations and meet opportunities.

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.

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