Principal Advisor – IT Strategy

• Great opportunity to join a global leader in mining
• Excellent work environment where people are valued and respected
• Work in a fast-paced environment with lots of opportunity for exposure to both highly visible projects and cutting-edge technology
• Permanent position based in Brisbane

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

About the role:

We are looking for a Principal Advisor - Strategy to bring a unique combination of business and technology expertise; and to act as a translator, integrator and facilitator. Technology Strategy is no longer just limited to how technology supports the business strategy, but how technology can create new opportunities and new value.

This role will work closely with the senior IS&T leaders and our Communications business partner to develop Rio Tinto Board, ExCo submissions and updates. The successful candidate will also work closely with the IS&T SLT and our HR business partners to fine tune the IS&T operating model and create and promote the end-to-end IS&T strategy and roadmaps.

This role requires considerable collaboration and will suit an individual who demonstrates strong skills in consulting, stakeholder management and facilitating. Given the significant digital transformation journey Rio Tinto is on, it is important the individual in this role is up-to-date with current and emerging technology trends, and has an eye for potential solutions and innovative options that will help the business evolve.

Reporting to the Chief Advisor, Office of the CIO, and working within our global Information Systems & Technology (IS&T) team, you will:

• Be committed to the safety of yourself and your team and the ability to lead by example.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for the Technology Business Strategy discipline, whilst supporting the development of the overall function strategy for IS&T.
• Build roadmaps to present to the Senior Leadership Team and other key stakeholders..
• Translate business goals to action plans, and deliver business change initiatives
• Collaborate and work with business leaders and peers in managing business strategy implementation within the relevant discipline.
• Lead, mentor and develop staff using a supportive / collaborative approach.
• Consult on the establishment of strategic programme initiatives and develop action and resource plans to achieve desired outcomes.

What you’ll bring:

• A number of years’ experience in a similar IT Strategic Advisor role or for an external strategic consulting business working within a large scale enterprise environment.
• Expert facilitation and consultative skills that allow you to present options and strategies to a variety of stakeholders from Senior Leadership Teams to Senior Executives and various other levels of an organisation.
• The ability to be a key contributor to a small team of Strategic Advisors using a collaborative and inclusive approach.
• Strong digital transformation, change management, stakeholder management and communication skills including the ability to influence stakeholders of all levels.
• Experience in Agile strategy, transformation and operating models.
• Broad, diverse experience and knowledge of major technologies (legacy to emerging).
• Demonstrated experience successfully identifying and delivering IT Strategies that align to the overarching business outcomes, offering innovative thinking, adaptability to a changing global environment and efficiencies that will drive service excellence.
• The ability to guide a global business on ways to eliminate digital friction that will create greater efficiencies across the organisation.
• Appropriate industry qualifications in Information Systems or other relevant qualifications and experience.

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, thinking and hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world 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
• Employee share ownership plan
• Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
• Career development & education assistance
• 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)

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

Rio Tinto Information Systems and Technology (IS&T) operates to enable better alignment with customer priorities, end-to-end accountability and flexibility to prioritise critical work. The function provides solutions that are aligned with current and future business requirements through the development and ongoing delivery of IT strategy and solution roadmaps. Through appropriate governance, consultative processes, and the use of industry best practices, IS&T also ensures that emerging technologies and innovative ideas are constantly evaluated, considered, and adopted, to provide easy-to-use, best-in-class solutions and services.

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.