Reward Principal Advisor – Executive Reward Design / Conseiller(ère) principal(e), Rémunération – Conception de la rémunération des cadres dirigeants in London

Be part of a group that is safety driven and values inclusion.

12-month Fixed Term Contract. Role is based in London, Montreal, Perth or Brisbane.

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

About the role:

We are looking for a Reward Principal Advisor with deep expertise in Reward design to support a portfolio of strategic initiatives over a 12‑month period. This role focuses on shaping and evolving executive reward architecture to support business strategy, performance outcomes and leadership retention. Operating as a senior technical advisor, you will bring strong judgement, market insight and design capability to complex executive reward questions. This is a great opportunity for a motivated Reward specialist who enjoys working at the front end of design — setting direction, testing options and developing solutions.

Working in a collaborative Reward community, a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Act as a principal technical expert on Reward design, providing leadership on structure, calibration and differentiation of executive pay outcomes.
• Lead the design and evolution of pay and incentive architectures, policies and market-competitive reward strategies to support retention, differentiation and integration activities.
• Apply deep market insight and external best practice to inform design choices, trade‑offs and future‑looking options.
• Partner closely with senior Reward leaders, Finance and HR to align design with business strategy, financial outcomes and talent priorities.
• Develop high‑quality design materials, papers and recommendations to support senior decision‑making on Reward structure and approach.
• Provide technical coaching and challenge to Reward SMEs and advisors, lifting overall capability and design maturity across the team.

About you:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Extensive experience in Reward design, ideally in a large, complex listed organisation.
• Strong technical grounding across executive pay architecture, incentive design, performance frameworks and market benchmarking.
• Proven ability to shape and evaluate Reward design options, balancing competitiveness, affordability, performance alignment and stakeholder expectations.
• Confidence operating as a senior advisor, influencing outcomes through expertise.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to turn complex reward problems into clear, pragmatic design solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to articulate reward design thinking clearly and credibly to senior stakeholders.
• Solid project management capability, including planning, risk management, governance and change delivery – will be highly regarded.

If you are applying for the role based in the province of Quebec, fluency in French and English, both written and spoken, is required.

What we offer:

• Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.
• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority.
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees.
• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions.
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters.
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave).

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 can’t do it on our own, so we’re 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.