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SalaryPrincipal Advisor - Strategic Partnerships
- Help shape our newly created Strategic Partnerships and corporate communications teams in Australia
- Wrap your arms around day-to-day delivery of our high-profile partnerships in Western Australia
- Find better ways to harness our national partnerships portfolio, tell our story in Australia and reinforce Rio Tinto’s reputation
- Perth based | 12-month contract
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
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 have fantastic strategic partners, including the Perth Wildcats and Perth Lynx basketball teams, Athletics Australia and the Queensland Rugby Union. The foundation is set for a corporate communications professional to maximise the value of our partnerships and really bring the portfolio to life.
We’re looking for a Principal Advisor – Strategic Partnerships, based in the Perth office, to support Rio Tinto’s national partnerships program. You’ll work within the wider Australia Corporate Communications team, which was formed in 2023 to provide thoughtful, expert communications counsel that helps the business clearly articulate what we do and what we stand for.
Deep experience managing sport, community and commercial sponsorships and partnerships that contribute to the overarching corporate strategy is vital. Success in this role looks like someone who’s known as a great team player and an outstanding contributor to a truly integrated partnership program that elevates Rio Tinto’s reputation in Australia – in other words, someone who’s brilliant to work with and gets things done.
Reporting to the Senior Manager – Corporate Communications, you will:
- Be responsible for partnership management, rights fulfillment & ROI: You’ll wring the most from Rio Tinto’s contractual rights and entitlements through efficient and diligent management of our relationships with key partners. You’ll apply expertise in measurement, partnership tracking and internal reporting. You’ll know which lever to pull at the right time.
- Manage key relationships in Western Australia: You’ll work with internal stakeholders (including colleagues across Australia in human resources, communications, media relations, external affairs, social investment and indigenous affairs) to identify and develop opportunities to promote and maximise the value of our partnerships, including through direct-event attendance, volunteering and harnessing social and mainstream media in creative ways.
- Share knowledge: As our expert on the ground in Perth, you’ll share your deep understanding of partnerships best-practice with relevant Rio Tinto Product Groups and functional teams in Western Australia.
- Engage with our agencies: You’ll work productively and well with Rio Tinto’s appointed partnership management agency, so we get things done.
- Provide portfolio support: You’ll activate and leverage additional contractual rights from other partnerships within the broader national portfolio.
- Exercise reputation awareness: You’ll anticipate, prepare and help manage reputation related to the company’s partnerships.
Here’s what you’ll need to be successful in this role:
- Top of our “wish list” is someone who’s a great teammate, works well with others and loves solving problems.
- At least seven years’ experience managing major partnerships day-to-day, extensive technical skill and a full tactical kitbag. You’ll be great at working with people across the business to arrive at clear, consistent approaches everyone can get behind.
- Demonstrated understanding of the positive role partnerships play driving reputation in large companies, agencies, or government departments.
- The capacity to think a little differently by seeking out and applying new approaches to partnerships, including effective ways to measure performance and reach strategically important audiences.
- Proven capability to contribute to high performing teams (sense of humour highly regarded).
- Proven ability to deliver results in a complex, often uncertain environment, while remaining calm, diplomatic and considered under pressure.
- Top notch written and verbal communication skills.
- A deep affinity with a well-structured and organised back office that delivers seamless logistics and administration.
- Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements.
- A work environment where safety is always the number one prioirty
- 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); and
- Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only.
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 and meet opportunities.
Where you’ll be working
Corporate Relations provides expertise and advice across all aspects of communications, brand strategy and positioning, media relations and stakeholder engagement with customers, employees and civil society through to governments and the general public.
Every Voice Matters
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.
Applications close on Thursday 18th January 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)
