Lead change by driving how our people experience transformation across a global ERP rollout.
Empower teams through building capability and leading a high-performing change team.
Shape outcomes by Influencing adoption and impact across diverse geographies.
About the Role
As the Manager Change youll lead a team of change professionals to deliver strategic change initiatives across Rio Tintos Modern ERP program. Youll play a key role in shaping how our people experience change building capability across the business and ensuring lasting value through effective adoption. This is a leadership role with global reachpartnering across business units geographies and functions to drive consistent high-quality change outcomes.
What Youll Bring
Proven ability to lead and develop high-performing teams in complex environments
Strong understanding of the mining industry and operational contexts
Demonstrated experience in large-scale ERP or enterprise transformation programs
Exceptional stakeholder engagement communication and influencing skills
Experience working in matrixed multi-geography environments
Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity in fast-paced settings
Familiarity with digital adoption platforms and change enablement tools (e.g. WalkMe)
Bonus: Prosci or equivalent change certification; tertiary qualifications in Change Management Business Psychology or related field
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership
Lead coach and develop a high-performing team across multiple workstreams
Foster a collaborative inclusive and outcome-focused team culture
Drive consistency and quality in change management planning execution and reporting
Provide strategic advice and coaching to build change leadership capability
Change Strategy & Execution
Translate program objectives into actionable change strategies
Oversee impact assessments stakeholder engagement and readiness activities
Partner with communications and training teams for integrated delivery
Support deployment phases including cutover go-live and hypercare
Measurement & Continuous Improvement
Use feedback and analytics to refine change strategies
Champion change metrics to inform decisions and demonstrate value
What We Offer
Be recognised for your contribution your thinking and your hard work
A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
Competitive base salary with annual incentive program
Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance
Attractive share ownership plan
Career development & education assistance
Flexible working arrangements
Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support
Exclusive employee discounts (banking accommodation cars retail and more
We are finding better ways to simplify our operations expand our capability and improve productivity to do this we are embarking on an exciting journey that will transition us to a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform moving from an old outdated technology (currently RTBS) to a new digitally enabled S/4 HANA and application ecosystem.
An effective RTBS is a key enabler to Best Operator given 30-60 per cent of our frontline time is spent in the system. To deliver this change we must ensure that we work closely with each of the Product Groups (PGs) and Functions to modernise how we operate in the system. Consequently this is not a technology led program it is business led.
Where youll be working
The newly created Modern ERP Implementation Program team within the Group Finance function will bring together a variety of specialist skillsets to shape our digital future and simplify automate modernise and improve our ways of working globally.
Applications close on Monday 1st Dec 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).
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 cant do it on our own so were 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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