Principal Adviser Value Realisation

• We’re committed to Finding Better Ways™ and that starts with creating a safe, inclusive, and empowering environment for everyone.

• Exciting opportunity to be involved with a cutting-edge technology uplift for a global enterprise company

• Role can be based out of our Perth, Brisbane or Singapore Hub as an initial 12 month fixed-term opportunity

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future.  Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role
 

This is a unique opportunity to play a critical role in a major enterprise transformation, ensuring that intended benefits translate into real, measured outcomes for the business.

As Principal Advisor – Value Realisation, you will be embedded within a large‑scale transformation program and accountable for defining, governing, tracking and realising value across delivery and into operations. Working at pace and in close alignment with program cadence, this role partners across Digital, Finance, Commercial and the broader business to ensure benefits are clearly owned, transparently tracked and actively managed.

About you

You are a transformation‑minded professional who thrives in complex environments and is motivated by turning ambition into measurable outcomes. To succeed in this role, you will bring:

• Experience working within large‑scale transformation programs, ideally digital or technology‑enabled, with exposure to value, benefits or outcome management

• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including ROI, benefit modelling, valuation or cashflow analysis

• The confidence and maturity to engage with, challenge and influence senior stakeholders constructively

• The ability to operate effectively in ambiguity, moving seamlessly from framework design to hands‑on analysis and execution

• A resilient, outcomes‑focused mindset, comfortable with pace, setbacks and iterative decision‑making

• Curiosity and learning agility, seeing this role as an opportunity to build breadth, depth and momentum for future career growth

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 perm position working directly for Rio Tinto

• 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

You’ll join the Modern ERP Program — a multi‑disciplinary team bringing together technology, process, data and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We’re modernising a 20‑year‑old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and ignite innovation.

This work supports our people across global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on work that really matters. By simplifying and digitising how the organisation runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision‑making and AI‑enabled transformation.

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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