Why explore
A challenging position working in our World Class Commercial Operations organization
An opportunity to develop your career within a global organisation
Great exposure to global operations processes and stakeholders
Based in Singapore a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto
About the role
Rio Tintos Commercial Legal team is responsible for providing the highest standard of legal services in respect of Rio Tintos Sales & Marketing and Marine & Logistics activities across all levels of the business. The Commercial Legal team is looking for a self-motivated and organized Paralegal to support the Commercial Legal function.
Reporting to the Chief Counsel - Sales & Marketing and Marine & Logistics you will as required:
Run the Singapore corporate secretarial function including scheduling and running board meetings attending to and putting in effect changes to the composition of the board working with internal stakeholders and external service providers to complete statutory filing matters and lodgment of annual return within prescribed deadlines.
Prepare review and manage legal documents (e.g. contracts presentations filings precedents) and support the drafting of agreements and legal documents.
Assist in the preparation of training and presentation materials.
Organize and manage documents including precedents and templates and establish a system to maintain and retrieve such documents.
Liaise with external counsel service providers and internal teams facilitating timely communications instructions and the effective management of legal spending (e.g. purchase order management and matter level budgeting).
Assist in maintaining calendars arranging meetings and conferences.
General administration duties as required.
About you
To be successfully considered for this role you will have:
Bachelors Degree or equivalent.
At least 3 years experience as a paralegal/legal assistant in a law firm or in an in-house setting.
Proficiency in technology skills required for the role including good working knowledge of Microsoft Office and its interfaces.
Excellent organisational skills and ability to manage time-critical sensitive work.
Attention to detail and ability to follow direction and procedures.
Strong interpersonal as well as written and oral communication skills in English.
What we offer
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 health insurance for employees and immediate family
Attractive share ownership plan
Company provided insurance cover
Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
Leave for all of lifes 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 crossfunctionally across Buy Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver minetomarket value around the world.
Application Deadline: 17 March 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 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 Indigenous Peoples women the LGBTQIA 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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