Manager Portfolio Coaching

Manager Portfolio Coaching – Information Services and Technology (IS&T)

Rio Tinto has established a new Information Services and Technology operating model, delivering value to our customers end to end while ensuring that our people have growth opportunities to develop within our organisation.

About the role

The Manager Portfolio Coaching is the chapter area lead for portfolio coaching is responsible for leading a team of Portfolio Coaches, ensuring consistency, growth, and alignment with organisational strategy. As our preferred applicant, you will drive excellence in Agile ways of working, portfolio-level agility, and business transformation across domains. The chapter lead nurtures the development of portfolio coaches, facilitates knowledge sharing, and promotes a strong coaching culture across the organisation.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Development – Lead and develop a community of portfolio coaches by fostering a culture of learning, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

Coaching & Capability Building – Provide guidance, mentoring, and support to chapter members in both Agile methodologies and traditional delivery modes. Lean portfolio management, project/program, service management.

Strategic Alignment – Ensure portfolio coaching practices align with organisational goals and strategic initiatives.

Standardisation & Best Practices – establish and promote coaching frameworks, best practices, and Agile governance models to enhance portfolio agility.

Stakeholder Collaboration – work closely with senior leadership, domain teams, and agile release Trains to drive change and optimise value delivery.

Continuous Improvement – measure coaching impact, assess agile maturity, and drive initiatives to improve Agile adoption and effectiveness.

What you’ll bring

• Extensive experience in agile delivery, lean portfolio management and coaching at scale.

• Deep understanding of agile frameworks such as SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban.

• Strong leadership skills with the ability to develop and mentor coaching teams.

• Ability to influence and drive cultural and organisational change.

• Strong facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Experience in enterprise transformation and agile ways of working at portfolio level.

What we offer

• We offer a range of flexible working and leave options, so you can balance your work and life commitments and interests. Have a conversation with us about how this could work for you, including requests for part time hours.

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

• An excellent 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.

• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options.

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

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more).

• Domestic relocation if required.

Where you will be working 

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability, and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps.   

Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

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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