Principal Advisor Transformation (Global Procurement)

Principal Advisor Transformation (Global Procurement)

• Join our transformation team in procurement

• Play a key role in a large scale transformation program to deliver significant value and impact

• Based in Perth

About The Role:

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

As part of Rio Tinto’s transformation agenda, Rio Tinto Procurement (RTP) is accelerating its focus on delivering material, sustainable spend reductions. This role is responsible for coordinating and supporting the delivery of RTP’s global savings targets, working across RTP, Product Groups, and Functions to ensure aligned execution and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Manager Transformation, the role will:

• Drive a growth mindset and foster collaborative ways of working to drive inclusivity, performance excellence, and cost reduction across RTP and the broader business.

• Coordinate delivery of RTP spend reduction targets, working with implementation leads to prioritise, track and realise value.

• Engage Product Groups and Functions to unlock opportunities and align RTP support to accelerate value delivery.

• Generate insights and performance reporting to track delivery, identify risks, and shape pipeline development.

• Support onboarding and mobilisation of transformation resources to strengthen delivery capability.

• Own data, analysis and reporting outputs for senior leadership and Group Transformation Office, including development of materials for strategic updates.

• Partner with RTP PMO team to ensure accurate initiative tracking, clear accountabilities and robust reporting outcomes.

• Apply a strong delivery mindset, constructively challenge to drive accountability and outcomes.

• Promote a culture of zero harm and continuous improvement.

What you will bring:

You are a highly capable professional with strong commercial analysis expertise. You bring experience in leading and driving large scale transformation, underpinned by solid program management capabilities. You excel at stakeholder management, confidently presenting insights and influencing senior leaders to drive alignment, decisions and outcomes.

• A commitment to the safety, ensuring the wellbeing of yourself and the team.

• Strong commercial acumen and analytical capability. 

• Demonstrated ability to influence without direct line authority.

• Ability to thrive in a fast paced, dynamic environment, balancing multiple priorities and stakeholders.

• A growth mindset, with the confidence to challenge the status quo and drive better outcomes.

• Highly collaborative, with excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.

• Respect for others and an all-inclusive mindset. 

This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven professional to drive significant transformation and deliver meaningful contributions to the group’s cost savings.

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.

This role will be based in Perth.

Application Deadline: 1st June 2026

(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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