Internal Strategy Consulting Manager (PACE)

• Work on Rio Tinto’s top priorities and deliver lasting sustainable impact
• Gain exposure across different product groups and functions to rapidly gain depth and breadth of experience of all parts of the business
• Interact with senior leaders, and assist in managing key relationships
• Permanent role based in Perth

About the role

We are looking for a Manager – PACE Consulting to join our established team of external consultants and high potential internal members.

This is a great opportunity for a team player with extensive strategy consulting experience to work on projects that deliver value to the business while enjoying a work life balance.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the General Manager Consulting PACE and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the PACE team, you will:

• Work with senior leaders to identify and scope consulting projects which create value for product group assets and functions
• Deliver consulting projects, managing the interfaces and ensuring strong collaboration with clients and their teams
• Develop and present project findings that will deliver sustainable short and long term outcomes

• Develop and lead the project work plan for a combined team of consultants and client team members to deliver outcomes

What you’ll bring

• Experience leading projects in a top-tier consulting firm or complex, company-wide projects within a corporate environment: operational experience is highly regarded
• Demonstrated experience in conducting analysis, ensuring accurate and updated data from varying sources and interpreting complex results to find key opportunities
• Experience working with a broad range of stakeholders, including senior executives
• Demonstrated ability to exercise critical thinking and challenge pre-established conceptions
• Good understanding of business improvement principles and practices
• Experience in project management and change management
• A bachelor’s degree in a relevant field. MBA desirable

What we offer

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

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers – generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium – the world’s first to be certified “responsible” – helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you will be working

PACE Consulting is an internal management consultancy embedded within Rio Tinto.. It comprises a team of management consultants and data scientists & engineers, focused on working with each part of the business on opportunities that will deliver the highest possible value. Rio Tinto has established PACE to support the business in many areas where it has previously sought external management consulting expertise.

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.