People Partner

Why explore

• Manage key operational workforce, talent and organisational outcomes by partnering directly with leaders across a defined portfolio.
• Build broad People partnering experience through workforce planning, employee relations, talent, change and data-led decision-making.
• Collaborate with specialist People teams to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.

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

We are looking for a People Partner to translate business priorities into practical workforce, talent, engagement and organisational outcomes across a defined portfolio. In this role, you’ll leadership teams and across the People function to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions that strengthen business performance and workforce effectiveness. This is an opportunity to broaden your impact across the People agenda while supporting leaders through workforce planning, talent, change and employee relations priorities within established frameworks and governance.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Manager People Partnering and working with the Commercial team, you will be:

• Act as a trusted partner supporting senior leaders on day-to-day people matters, converting business requirements into clear delivery priorities and coordinating execution through People Experience teams.
• Translate people strategies into near-term workforce and people plans, and delivering operational workforce planning within agreed plans and guardrails.
• Collaborate with specialist People teams, including Organisation and Talent Partners, People Experience, Areas of Expertise, Talent and Reward to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.
• Advise leaders on employee and labour relations matters, applying established frameworks, escalating union or higher-risk matters, and supporting compliance with labour and regulatory requirements.
• Lead performance, talent and pay health processes across the portfolio, including calibration and leader review activities that support fair, consistent and timely decisions.
• Deliver organisational change, restructures and transformation initiatives, enabling leaders and supporting effective implementation and adoption.
• Analyse engagement, workforce, case and query data to identify trends, shape targeted action plans and drive continuous improvement.
• Coach leaders on performance, team effectiveness and employee experience, while sharing portfolio insights to strengthen enterprise strategies and frameworks.

About you

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply, if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Ability to build trusted relationships with leaders and provide practical advice that improves team effectiveness and supports business priorities.
• Demonstrated experience delivering workforce planning, people processes and advisory support within a defined business or functional portfolio.
• Demonstrated capability applying employee and labour relations frameworks, exercising sound judgement and escalating risk appropriately.
• Experience leading organisational change implementation and supporting leaders to embed new ways of working.
• Ability to interpret workforce data, translate insights into targeted action, and work across specialist teams to deliver consistent outcomes.

Helpful for Success

• Experience facilitating talent or performance calibration sessions and supporting fair, consistent people decisions.
• Exposure to workforce benchmarking, pay review activities, engagement action planning or employer brand activation.
• Experience supporting leaders through union matters, restructures or transformation in a complex operating environment.

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.

Application Deadline: 16 November 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.