Principal Advisor Remuneration

About the role

Rio Tinto is looking for a Principal Advisor Remuneration to bring deep technical expertise to complex base pay questions across its globally banded workforce. Working within the global Reward area, you will investigate business, market and workforce challenges, evaluate how global frameworks apply and design and test practical solutions. You will lead defined areas of technical work and partner with regional Reward teams to keep global approaches effective across different markets.

Key responsibilities

• Evaluate complex base pay challenges and determine how global frameworks apply, considering where solutions or refinements are needed
• Design, model and test solutions across salary structures, market positioning, pay ranges and positioning methodologies
• Assess existing base pay frameworks, methodologies and job architecture standards, identifying gaps and recommending refinements
• Partner with regional Reward and People teams to understand market, business and workforce requirements and where local differentiation fits within global frameworks
• Analyse remuneration data, market insights and regional practices to assess market alignment and internal equity, explaining trade-offs
• Advise on job architecture, job evaluation and role valuation for the globally banded workforce
• Contribute to the evolution of global base pay approaches and develop methodologies, tools and guidance for Reward and People teams
• Translate base pay designs into business requirements with Reward Operations and HR Technology to support implementation across data, systems and reporting

Required profile

• Highly experienced reward professional with deep technical expertise and strong analytical judgement
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, interrogating evidence and developing recommendations from complex technical questions
• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

Required skills

• Deep knowledge of base pay design: salary structures, market benchmarking and positioning, job architecture and evaluation, internal equity and annual remuneration processes
• Ability to investigate complex remuneration issues, evaluate alternatives and develop evidence-based solutions
• Experience applying enterprise reward principles across different markets and workforce contexts
• Strong ability to interpret remuneration, market, workforce and financial data and model options
• Ability to act as a credible subject matter expert and influence outcomes through technical expertise and professional judgement
• Ability to collaborate across regional Reward and People teams and specialist functions

Helpful but not required: experience with globally banded professional or managerial workforces, designing salary structures and market-positioning approaches, using external market data, and tools such as Workday, Power BI, compensation survey platforms or remuneration modelling software. Backgrounds in reward consulting, technical compensation design, market benchmarking, job architecture, job evaluation, regional Reward or enterprise base pay are also helpful.

What we offer

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• A competitive base salary and an annual incentive program
• Medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and their immediate family
• Share ownership plan, company-provided insurance and salary sacrifice and packaging options
• Career development and education assistance, family-friendly health and wellbeing support
• Vacation, paid parental and sick leave, and employee discounts

Applications close on 15 November 2026.