Principal Adviser Remuneration Strategy

About the role

Rio Tinto is looking for a Principal Adviser Remuneration Strategy to provide thought leadership and lead the strategic design of its global approach to base pay. Working within the global Reward area, you will bring deep remuneration expertise and external insight to shape equitable, commercially grounded approaches across a complex global organisation. The role reports to the Manager Remuneration Strategy.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the development and evolution of global base pay frameworks, methodologies and standards, from salary structures, market positioning and job architecture through to pay equity and annual remuneration investment.
• Identify emerging business or workforce needs not met by existing approaches and develop fit-for-purpose solutions within the company's reward philosophy and governance.
• Shape recommendations for annual remuneration investment, covering market movement, pay progression, pay health, affordability and investment priorities.
• Translate complex remuneration data, market intelligence and business context into clear points of view and recommendations for senior stakeholders and governance forums.
• Partner with Reward and People teams globally to turn strategy and policy into practical approaches.
• Contribute to pay transparency, pay equity and remuneration effectiveness approaches, and shape data, analytics, reporting and HR technology requirements.

Required profile

• Deep base pay expertise, including salary structures, market positioning and benchmarking, job architecture and evaluation, pay equity and annual remuneration investment.
• Ability to lead complex reward strategy and design work, challenge established approaches and develop evidence-based solutions.
• Strong commercial and analytical judgement, and experience shaping remuneration policies and frameworks.
• Able to act as a credible subject matter expert and influence senior stakeholders.
• Enterprise perspective: able to work across a large, complex global organisation.

Helpful experience

• Developing global or multi-country reward approaches, or reward consulting across several clients or markets.
• Preparing remuneration proposals and supporting senior leadership or governance discussions.
• Bringing external market practice and emerging reward trends into strategy.
• Experience with Workday, Power BI, market survey platforms, remuneration modelling or comparable reward technology and analytics tools.

What we offer

• Permanent position with a competitive base salary and 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, and leave for all life's reasons.
• Employee discounts and a safe work environment.