Senior Consultant – PACE Consulting

Why explore

• Work on Rio Tinto’s top priorities and deliver lasting sustainable impact

• Gain exposure across our global commercial business

• Interact with senior leaders, and assist in managing key relationships

• Receive extensive training and development in leadership and consulting

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

About the role

PACE is an internal management consultancy embedded within Rio Tinto, based in Montreal, Perth, Brisbane and Singapore. It comprises a team of management consultants and Rio experienced team members focused on working with each part of the business on opportunities that will deliver the highest possible value to the Group. Rio Tinto has established PACE to support the business in many areas where it has previously sought external management consulting expertise.

We are looking for a Senior PACE Consultant to join our established team (PACE). This is a great opportunity for a team player with consulting experience to work on projects that accelerate the delivery of lasting value to Rio Tinto by applying high-quality problem-solving capabilities, strong communication skills and business acumen to Rio Tinto’s highest value challenges and opportunities.

Reporting to the GM PACE Consulting Lead, and working in a challenging environment within the PACE team (across APAC), you will:

• Structure complex business challenges and identify practical, high impact solutions within small high performing teams (2-3).

• Drive discrete workstreams by gathering and analysing information, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing practical recommendations.

• Partner closely with clients to ensure strong collaboration and build lasting trusted relationships with the business.

• Communicate findings through executive-level presentations and implement recommendations in collaboration with extended team across PACE and the business, ensuring insights translate into tangible business outcomes.

• Strengthen the PACE culture by modelling care and inclusion, curiosity, courage, ownership, and a commitment to excellence.

About you

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

• Tertiary qualified in Business, Engineering or relevant field.

• 3 to 5 years in a management consulting firm or a strategy and/or business improvement role.

• Experience in conducting analysis, ensuring accurate and updated data from varying sources and interpreting complex results to find key opportunities.

• Dynamic and adaptable individual who can operate in ambiguous environments.

• Sound stakeholder engagement and project management abilities.

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 salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees

• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions

• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan

• Wellbeing benefits

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

• Employee Assistance Program

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

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: 11 September 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 LGBTQ+ 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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