People Partner

Rio Tinto Singapore Holdings Pte Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Rio Tinto Singapore Holdings Pte Ltd is seeking a People Partner to translate business priorities into practical workforce, talent, engagement and organisational outcomes across a defined portfolio. You’ll partner with leadership teams and the People function to deliver high-quality solutions that strengthen performance and workforce effectiveness.

This role supports workforce planning, talent, change and employee relations priorities within established governance.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree qualifications.
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with leaders and provide practical advice that improves team effectiveness and supports business priorities.
• Demonstrated experience delivering workforce planning, people processes and advisory support within a defined business or functional portfolio.
• Demonstrated capability applying employee and labour relations frameworks, exercising sound judgement and escalating risk appropriately.
• Experience leading organisational change implementation and supporting leaders to embed new ways of working.
• Ability to interpret workforce data, translate insights into targeted action, and work across specialist teams to deliver consistent outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted partner supporting senior leaders on day-to-day people matters, converting business requirements into clear delivery priorities and coordinating execution through People Experience teams.
• Translate people strategies into near-term workforce and people plans, and delivering operational workforce planning within agreed plans and guardrails.
• Collaborate with specialist People teams, including Organisation and Talent Partners, People Experience, Areas of Expertise, Talent and Reward to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.
• Advise leaders on employee and labour relations matters, applying established frameworks, escalating union or higher-risk matters, and supporting compliance with labour and regulatory requirements.
• Lead performance, talent and pay health processes across the portfolio, including calibration and leader review activities that support fair, consistent and timely decisions.
• Deliver organisational change, restructures and transformation initiatives, enabling leaders and supporting effective implementation and adoption.
• Analyse engagement, workforce, case and query data to identify trends, shape targeted action plans and drive continuous improvement.
• Coach leaders on performance, team effectiveness and employee experience, while sharing portfolio insights to strengthen enterprise strategies and frameworks.

Skills

Relationship building

Advisory experience

Workforce planning

Labour relations

Change management

Data interpretation

Education

Relevant degree

Job description

Why explore

• Manage key operational workforce, talent and organisational outcomes by partnering directly with leaders across a defined portfolio.
• Build broad People partnering experience through workforce planning, employee relations, talent, change and data-led decision-making.
• Collaborate with specialist People teams to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.

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About the role

We are looking for a People Partner to translate business priorities into practical workforce, talent, engagement and organisational outcomes across a defined portfolio. In this role, you’ll leadership teams and across the People function to deliver consistent, high-quality solutions that strengthen business performance and workforce effectiveness. This is an opportunity to broaden your impact across the People agenda while supporting leaders through workforce planning, talent, change and employee relations priorities within established frameworks and governance.

What you’ll be doing:

Reporting to the Manager People Partnering and working with the Commercial team, you will be:

• Act as a trusted partner supporting senior leaders on day-to-day people matters, converting business requirements into clear delivery priorities and coordinating execution through People Experience teams.
• Translate people strategies into near-term workforce and people plans, and delivering operational workforce planning within agreed plans and guardrails.
• Collaborate with specialist People teams, including Organisation and Talent Partners, People Experience, Areas of Expertise, Talent and Reward to deliver aligned people strategies and initiatives.
• Advise leaders on employee and labour relations matters, applying established frameworks, escalating union or higher-risk matters, and supporting compliance with labour and regulatory requirements.
• Lead performance, talent and pay health processes across the portfolio, including calibration and leader review activities that support fair, consistent and timely decisions.
• Deliver organisational change, restructures and transformation initiatives, enabling leaders and supporting effective implementation and adoption.
• Analyse engagement, workforce, case and query data to identify trends, shape targeted action plans and drive continuous improvement.
• Coach leaders on performance, team effectiveness and employee experience, while sharing portfolio insights to strengthen enterprise strategies and frameworks.

About you

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply, if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

• Relevant Degree qualifications.
• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Ability to build trusted relationships with leaders and provide practical advice that improves team effectiveness and supports business priorities.
• Demonstrated experience delivering workforce planning, people processes and advisory support within a defined business or functional portfolio.
• Demonstrated capability applying employee and labour relations frameworks, exercising sound judgement and escalating risk appropriately.
• Experience leading organisational change implementation and supporting leaders to embed new ways of working.
• Ability to interpret workforce data, translate insights into targeted action, and work across specialist teams to deliver consistent outcomes.

Helpful for Success

• Experience facilitating talent or performance calibration sessions and supporting fair, consistent people decisions.
• Exposure to workforce benchmarking, pay review activities, engagement action planning or employer brand activation.
• Experience supporting leaders through union matters, restructures or transformation in a complex operating environment.