Manager Operational Readiness

Why explore

• A challenging position working in our World Class Commercial Operations organization

• An opportunity to develop your career within a global organisation

• Great exposure to global operations, processes and stakeholders

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are seeking for a Manager – Operational Readiness to support the successful adoption and sustained performance of the Modern ERP platform across the Move & Sell (M&S) Global Process Owner (GPO).

This role provides regional leadership and hands-on ownership of ERP readiness activities, ensuring that business processes, controls, data, training and ways of working are fully prepared for go live and hypercare. Sitting between the global M&S program and local execution teams, the role acts as the operational voice of the business—shaping global approaches to reflect local realities and ensuring change is genuinely adopted.

Reporting to the GM Commercial Services, you will:

• Lead regional operational readiness for M&S processes, from strategy through execution, cutover and hypercare.

• Act as the operational voice for M&S into the Modern ERP program, ensuring global solutions are practical, adoptable and aligned to business outcomes.

• Partner closely with M&S GPO team, Functional Deployment teams, Change, Technology and other key stakeholders to coordinate readiness activities and resolve issues.

• Set clear readiness expectations and govern execution across testing, training, data, controls and business readiness assessments, ensuring accountabilities are clearly owned and delivered.

• Develop and manage M&S readiness plans aligned to functional deployment milestones and business priorities.

• Own regional readiness reporting, providing clear, fact-based visibility of progress, quality, risks and issues to program and business leadership.

• Proactively identify, assess and escalate readiness risks, gaps and dependencies, supporting timely decision making and issue resolution.

• Support cutover and hypercare activities, ensuring business continuity, rapid issue resolution and stabilisation post go live.

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent.

• Strong experience leading ERP or large-scale business transformation readiness, ideally within supply chain, commercial, markets or operations domains.

• Understanding of end-to-end business processes, controls and operational risk management.

• Experience coordinating cross functional teams without direct authority, influencing outcomes through strong stakeholder engagement.

• Excellent communication and reporting skills, with the ability to present clear insights to senior leaders.

• A structured, proactive approach to risk identification, issue management and continuous improvement.

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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees

• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions

• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan

• Wellbeing benefits

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

• Employee Assistance Program

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter

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

Where you will be working

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross‑functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine‑to‑market value around the world.

Application Deadline: 12 April 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.” 

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.

Respect and Inclusion

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.

R53519