Senior Adviser Remuneration

Senior Advisor Remuneration

• Opportunity shape and influence how Rio Tinto remunerate employees

• Fixed term role till December 2025

About the role

We are looking for a fixed-term Senior Advisor Remuneration based in Perth through to the end of 2025, with the potential to extend. This role reports to the Manager Remuneration Strategy and Solutions and will support the Iron Ore product group.

As the Principal Advisor Remuneration, you will play a pivotal role in developing and implementing our remuneration strategy. You will provide expert advice on remuneration programs across multiple countries in the APAC region, ensuring our practices are competitive, equitable, and aligned with our organisational goals.

Reporting to the Manager, Remuneration Strategy and Solutions APAC, your key responsibilities will be:

• Supporting the development and implementation of remuneration strategies that align with industry standards and company objectives.

• Conducting comprehensive market analysis to ensure competitive compensation packages.

• Advising on industrial relations matters, including negotiations and compliance with relevant legislation.

• Partnering with the Iron Ore HR team to support Remuneration related queries.

• Collaborating with HR and management teams to design and manage incentive programs.

• Providing expert guidance on remuneration policies and practices.

• Monitoring and reporting on remuneration trends and their impact on the organisation.

• Providing technical guidance and advice to various stakeholder groups and employees within the business.

• Supporting the annual global benchmarking process in partnership with other regions, with a specific focus on operational roles and allowance structures.

• Supporting the business through guidance and advice against key remuneration policies, ensure governance and understanding across the business.

• Working as part of a integrated HR team and collaborate effectively to ensure we achieve the best business outcomes.

• Establishing and maintain key network of contacts to facilitate the exchange of remuneration information.

What you’ll bring

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

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Experience in remuneration and/or performance related discipline within the mining or construction industry including practical experience of benchmarking, job evaluation, career frameworks and incentive design.

• Demonstrated experience in a HR role that requires flexibility, enthusiasm, pragmatism and resilience.

• Strong understanding of market trends within Australia.

• Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret and present data.

• Ability to work autonomously and manage multiple priorities.

• Confidence and ability to partner and influence stakeholders at all levels internal and external to the business.

• Experience working with varied remuneration packages, including roster-based allowances and different structures.

• Demonstrated experience in delivering projects for senior stakeholders, clients, business leaders, others parts of the HR structure

• HRIS experience, including experience with web-enabled performance management tools and/or platforms

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 base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive bonus 

• 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, cultural leave)

• To better suit different family needs, our paid parental leave approach gives all parents the option to take 18 weeks of paid leave after a new child arrives – at a time that suits them

• Exclusive employee discounts including hotel stays, banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more

Where you’ll be working

This role will be based in our Perth hub

Applications will close on the 21st of May 2025.

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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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