Senior Advisor - Operational and Closure Readiness (Fixed Term)

Rio Tinto; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Safety-first culture

Career development

Competitive salary

Wellbeing support

Multicultural environment

Job summary

Rio Tinto is leading a global ERP transformation, migrating from ECC6 to SAP S/4HANA and driving a lean, connected application ecosystem. The Senior Advisor - Operational and Closure Readiness coordinates SME activities for Move & Sell readiness, ensuring timely, high-quality readiness tasks across regions.

Reporting to the Manager, Move & Sell Readiness, you will establish plans, coordinate SME schedules, and enable local site engagement, supporting testing, training, cutover and hypercare to

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in CS/IT/Business or related field.
• Experience in matrix organizations/operational environments engaging SMEs.
• Project Management experience.
• Commercial Services or Shared Services experience understanding end-to-end Deal to Contract and Order to Cash processes.
• Hands-on SAP working.
• Experience coordinating readiness, deployment or transformation with multiple SMEs or site stakeholders.
• Ability to plan, schedule and track execution activities including logistics and dependencies.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain activity plans, task lists and trackers for SME deliverables.
• Act as the primary coordination point between SMEs and Product Group Readiness Leads for execution activities.
• Support mobilisation of SMEs for Product Group readiness activities within the region.
• Coordinate scheduling for SME activities ensuring sessions are planned and sequenced; logistics and travel are arranged as needed; site representatives are engaged.

Skills

Project Management

Stakeholder Engagement

SAP Working

SME Coordination

Planning & Scheduling

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or related field

Tools

SAP S/4HANA

Job description

• An exciting opportunity to be part of a leading global mining company that produces and supplies materials that are essential to human progress
• An opportunity to work with key stakeholders in our global commercial hub
• Based in either our global commercial hub Singapore, or Montreal, Canada

Why explore

• An exciting opportunity to be part of a leading global mining company that produces and supplies materials that are essential to human progress
• An opportunity to work with key stakeholders in our global commercial hub
• Based in either our global commercial hub Singapore, or Montreal, Canada

About The Role

The implementation of Modern Enterprise Resource Planning (MERP) is a critical step in Rio Tinto's transformation journey, moving from outdated technology (ECC6) to a new, digitally enabled lean core platform (S/4) and application ecosystem. As this is a business led, Group-wide transformation effort, it requires a strong team to bridge the business and technology landscapes. From contract to cash, every aspect of our operations will benefit from this modernization that offers an exciting opportunity to deliver a digital foundation that will stand Rio Tinto up well for ongoing digital transformation. Rio Tinto is looking to deploying a modern ERP as core and supporting Best of Breed / Best of Suite technologies across processes. In support of successful SAP S/4HANA deployment, the Senior Advisor - Operational and Closure Readiness is responsible for coordinating and enabling Subject Matter Expert (SME) activities for Move & Sell Function, ensuring all Readiness tasks are completed on time and to required quality standards. This role acts as the day-to-day operational coordinator for successful Testing, Training, pre- and post-Cutover, and Hypercare execution, working closely with Move & Sell Readiness Lead, Regional Change Lead, local site representatives and SMEs (including trainers & testers). The Senior Advisor ensures activities are well planned, locally enabled and effectively tracked, escalating risks, issues and dependencies.

Reporting to the Manager, Move & Sell Readiness, you will

• Establish and maintain clear activity plans, task lists and trackers for SME deliverables.
• Act as the primary coordination point between SMEs and Product Group Readiness Leads for execution activities.
• Support mobilisation of SMEs for Product Group readiness activities within the region.
• Coordinate scheduling for SME activities ensuring
  • Sessions are planned and sequenced appropriately.
  • Logistics (Meeting rooms/technology are available with travel coordinated, if required).
  • Local site representatives are engaged so site-specific requirements and constraints are factored into planning.

What You Will Need For The Role

To succeed in this role, you will have

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business or related field.
• Working in matrix organization/operational environments, with the confidence to engage SMEs and elevate issues appropriately.
• Project Management experience.
• Commercial Services or Shared Services work experience understanding end-to-end Deal to Contract and Order to Cash processes
• Hands-on SAP working.
• Experience coordinating readiness, deployment or transformation activities involving multiple SMEs or site-based stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to plan, schedule and track execution activities, including logistics and dependency management.

What We Offer

Be recognised for your contribution, 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 safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• Career development to further your ambitions
• Competitive salary package
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support
• Exciting multicultural working environment

Where you will be working

You'll join the Modern ERP Program within our Move and Sell team, a multi-disciplinary team bringing together technology, business process and change specialists to reshape how work happens across Rio Tinto. We're modernising a 20-year-old ERP system and redesigning core business processes to improve safety, efficiency and innovation. This work will make it easier for people across our global operations to spend less time on transactional tasks and more time on the work that really matters. By simplifying and digitising how the organisation runs, the Modern ERP Program is creating the foundation for future productivity gains, smarter decision making and AI enabled transformation across the business.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross-functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine-to-market value around the world.