Senior Manager Global Workplace & FM

Senior Manager, Global Workplace & Facilities Management

• Key leadership role responsible for establishing and delivering Rio Tinto's global workplace and facilities management strategy and operations, ensuring safe, efficient and high-performing workplaces that support current and future business needs.

• Be a trusted advisor to Executive and Senior Leaders on workplace strategy, corporate real estate, facilities management and employee workplace experience.

• Based in Perth

About the role

We are seeking an experienced workplace, facilities management and property leader to lead Rio Tinto's Global Workplace & Facilities Management function.

You will provide strategic and operational leadership across workplace operations, facilities management, corporate real estate, supplier partnerships and portfolio planning. You will lead a global team and ensure Rio Tinto's corporate workplaces deliver safe, productive and collaborative environments while supporting long-term business objectives.

Reporting to the General Manager – Global Indirects, you will:

• Lead the Global Workplace & Facilities Management team and ensure global and regional workplace activities align with business priorities and future workforce requirements.

• Develop and execute Rio Tinto's global workplace and corporate real estate strategy.

• Enable the ongoing development of the Global Workplace team, including performance management, capability building and succession planning.

• Oversee the performance and effectiveness of Rio Tinto's global office portfolio, ensuring safe, productive and high-quality workplace experiences.

• Lead long-term workplace and portfolio planning to support growth, consolidation and changing business requirements.

• Have direct oversight of strategic workplace and facilities management supplier relationships, ensuring strong safety, service, innovation and value outcomes.

• Have direct oversight of capital projects across the corporate property portfolio including sustaining projects in existing locations and portfolio development / new locations.

• Lead the negotiation and management of high-value and complex workplace, facilities management and property-related contracts.

• Maintain accountability for workplace operating expenditure, capital investment planning and financial performance.

• Build strong and productive relationships with Product Groups, Functions and regional business leaders to ensure workplace strategies align with business needs.

• Drive consistency in workplace standards, governance, compliance and risk management across global locations.

• Champion safety, workplace experience and continuous improvement across all workplace and facilities management activities.

• Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, workplace innovation, employee experience and future-of-work practices to improve workplace performance and value delivery.

About you

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

• Extensive experience leading workplace, facilities management, corporate real estate or property functions within a large global organisation.

• Strong commercial acumen and experience managing significant operating and capital budgets.

• Proven success developing and executing workplace, facilities management or corporate real estate strategies.

• Demonstrated capability negotiating complex commercial agreements and managing strategic supplier partnerships.

• Strong understanding of workplace operations, facilities management, corporate real estate, project delivery and portfolio management.

• A proven track record of achieving successful outcomes through leadership, influence, collaboration and negotiation.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to effectively engage with different leadership levels.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation.

• Experience leading and developing geographically dispersed teams.

• Degree qualified in Business, Commerce, Property, Facilities Management, Engineering or a related discipline.

It is also beneficial if you have:

• Experience managing outsourced Integrated Facilities Management (IFM) models.

• Experience working across multiple regions, cultures and time zones.

• Professional qualifications in Property, Facilities Management, Real Estate or Project Management.

What we offer:

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements

• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave

• 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);

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto Global Procurement ensures resilient supply chains that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing and buying of goods and services for our operations. Playing a fundamental role, value is achieved through effective supplier partnerships, innovation, easy and standardised processes, e-technology, corporate social responsibility and increased commercial advantage.

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this 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 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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