Regional Workplace Operations Manager

Regional Workplace Operations Manager (Principal Global Workplace)

• Key role in a dynamic team delivering end to end property and workplace solutions

• Partner with the business and suppliers deliver high quality, consistent workplace experiences for all Rio Tinto employees

• Support the delivery of global property strategies and implement these in the region

• Based in London, UK

About the role

Finding better ways™ to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Regional Workplace Operations Manager (Principal Global Workplace) to join a global team.  Your focus will be on overseeing the management and operational excellence of the corporate offices within a designated region. This role emphasizes enhancing the workplace experience by ensuring that standards are maintained, promoting a safe, productive and collaborative environment which allows our people to work at their best.

The position will be the key point of interface between the business units, including Executive and Senior Leaders, and our supply partner. You will coordinate the property requirements through delivery. 

This is a great opportunity for a professional, collaborative candidate to ensure a strong focus on both safety and customer experience as well as stakeholder and supplier management.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Global Workplace & FM, you will be:

• Responsible for ensuring compliance and elevating safety culture

• Accountable for operational performance, vendor outcomes, financial management, and stakeholder satisfaction.

• Maintaining oversight of key vendor contracts, RFPs, performance monitoring, and resolution of service issues.

• Driving and maintaining strong multi-layered stakeholder relationships with the business, supplier and broader workplace team

• Delivering the Long-term portfolio plan for the assigned region / location, provisioning for flexibility to support growth/consolidation

• Driving integration of global real estate strategy and corporate objectives for the location

What you’ll bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• At least ten years’ experience in workplace within a large, geographically dispersed or diverse global company, preferably in the mining industry.

• Understanding of all aspects of corporate real estate operations, project management, asset management, safety and occupancy

• Proven ability to build strong relationships, based on trust and expertise

• Collaborative team player, capable of working well with internal and external stakeholders

• Proven commercial and financial acumens, with experience in managing multi-million budgets for Opex/Capex.

• Experience in working globally across diverse cultures

• Previous experience working with multiple stakeholders/ management across multiple regions and time-zones

What we offer

Be recognized 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

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

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans

• Attractive share ownership plan

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

• Exclusive employee discounts

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Procurement (RTP) provides supply chain services that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through end-to-end Category Management (strategy, strategic sourcing, and buying of goods and services and strategic customer, supplier and market management). Playing a fundamental role, value is achieved through uniformed processes, e-technology, increased corporate social responsibility and measurable saving for the Group.

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 Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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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