Senior Corporate Counsel

Rio Tinto; London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global mining company as a Senior Corporate Counsel in London. You will offer strategic legal guidance, handle complex negotiations, and ensure compliance across the Minerals product group's initiatives, all while supporting the leadership in the dynamic legal environment.

Benefits

Competitive salary package

Career development assistance

Family-friendly health programs

Generous employee share program

Leave for all of life’s reasons

Qualifications

• Experience in non-OECD jurisdictions and complex Government dealings.
• Strong corporate/commercial experience, exposure to complex contracts and transactions.
• Ability to work across organizational and geographic boundaries.

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic legal support across the Minerals product group.
• Structuring and advising on complex negotiations.
• Managing major legal and commercial risks.

Skills

Strategic advice

Complex negotiations

Legal risk management

Technical and analytical skills

AI applications in law

Job description

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• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Join a leading global company
• Permanent role, based in London, UK
  
  

• Join an encouraging leadership group, committed to your growth and development
• Join a leading global company
• Permanent role, based in London, UK
  
  

About The Role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for a Senior Corporate Counsel to work closely with the General Counsel, Minerals and the Minerals product group. The role will support the General Counsel, Minerals in providing outstanding strategic legal support to deliver on the Minerals product group strategy (including advising on existing legal matters and future pursuits).

This is a great opportunity for an energetic, performance driven individual who is keen to work in a dynamic environment.

Reporting to the General Counsel, Minerals and working in a challenging and exciting environment, within the legal department, you will be

• Providing strategic advice across a broad remit of legal issues including commercial contracts, M&A and disputes as well as strategic legal support to the Minerals product group
• Structuring and advising on complex multi-stakeholder negotiations from construction to closure
• Supporting the management of major legal and commercial risks
• Providing leadership in the broader Legal, Governance and Corporate Affairs function
• Ensuring adherence to the highest standards of compliance in order to build and protect Rio Tinto’s reputation
• Oversight of key legal initiatives across various assets in the Minerals portfolio and leading a small team who provide legal support across the Minerals product group portfolio in support of the strategy; including a focus on people development.
  
  

What You’ll Bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Experience in non-OECD jurisdictions and dealings with complex Government and multi-stakeholder issues
• Experience supporting and leading the legal support for complex negotiations and transactions
• Strong corporate/commercial experience, including exposure to complex contracts, disputes, M&A and joint venture structuring and on-going management
• Strong technical and analytical skills alongside a proven track record of formulating and offering proactive and creative solutions to commercial problems
• Experience managing relationships with external advisers and ensuring that a cost-effective service is delivered
• Ability to work seamlessly across organisational and geographic boundaries in pursuit of broader corporate goals.
• Experience with leveraging artificial intelligence to deliver outstanding legal support and a curiosity for broader AI applications
• A willingness to travel as needed to support on-going matters
  
  

What We Offer

Be recognized 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 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 matter
• 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.

Every Voice Matters

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.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Legal

• Industries

  Mining and Oil and Gas

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