Senior Advisor Change Management (1-Year Contract)

Why explore

• An opportunity to drive improvements

• Exposure to global operations, processes and stakeholders

• Work in a collaborative and fast paced environment

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

About the role

The implementation of Modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is a critical step in Rio Tinto’s transformation journey, moving from outdated technology (SAP ECC6) to a new, digitally enabled lean core platform (SAP S/4HANA) and application ecosystem. As this is a business led, Group-wide transformation effort, it requires a strong team to bridge the business and technology landscapes. From contract through to cash, every aspect of our operations will benefit from this modernization that offers an exciting opportunity to deliver a digital foundation that will enable Rio Tinto’s ongoing digital transformation opportunities.

We are looking for a Senior Advisor – Change Management to support the Move & Sell GPO with change management across the Realise & Deploy phase and hyper care.

Reporting to the M&S GPO/Regional Change Lead, you will:

• Turn change strategy into practical delivery: Support the Move & Sell and Regional Change Lead with translating the change approach into clear, high quality change artefacts (e.g. impact assessments, readiness insights, business engagement and user training inputs) that are easy for the business to understand and act on.

• Analyze and articulate business impacts: Work with program teams and business stakeholders to identify business, process, technology, data and role impacts across various processes, capabilities and other relevant initiatives. Surface risks, dependencies and change implications across impacted teams.

• Coordinate change activities: Support the coordination of change activities, helping with sequencing, tracking, alignment and follow-through as the program evolves.

• Sense and surface emerging change risks: Support the Move & Sell and Regional Change Lead as a proactive ‘radar’ across the business by continuously sensing for engagement gaps, adoption risks and early signs of resistance.

• Enable governance, reporting and continuous improvement: Support changing governance by preparing materials, synthesizing inputs, tracking actions and maintaining change documentation so it remains accurate and decisions ready.

• Support effective engagement and communication: Support the planning and delivery of stakeholder and leadership engagements, demonstrations and showcases by preparing briefing material, talking points, presentation content and session designs.

• Track program and stakeholder feedback and sentiment: Gathering feedback through effective means, tracking sentiment and responses from the business, and closing feedback loops.

About you

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

• Degree in relevant discipline.

• Practical experience supporting change initiatives in complex, global, enterprise environments (ERP, digital or operating model change).

• Exposure to analysing business and process impacts and translating change strategy into clear, usable outputs.

• Deep understanding and proven experience of applying change management, organisational and change leadership psychology principles, frameworks and leading practice within relevant fields.

• Strong written and verbal communication and people interaction skills, with the ability to work confidently with stakeholders at multiple levels.

• Experience supporting stakeholder engagement, training or readiness activities.

• Ability to critically evaluate prior to execution, problem solve across various situations and take proactive initiative.

What we offer

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

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment

• Career development to further your ambitions

• Competitive salary package

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support

• Exciting multicultural working environment

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: 6 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.

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