Marketing Communication Lead

• Exciting opportunity to showcase your product branding, marketing, and leadership expertise
• Close partnering with Commercial sales and strategic marketing teams to implement worldwide Rio Tinto Business to Business advertising and product marketing.
• Located in our Singapore at Commercial hub

About the role

We are looking for a Marketing Communication Lead who will be tasked to provide the right expertise to design and implement product marketing, aligned with our Commercial business to business strategy and with a focus on ESG differentiation.

This role will lead a dedicated B2B product branding and marketing communications (MarCom) team within the Commercial organisation, in ensuring our customers and potential customers know about our products and service offerings, while promoting our unique value propositions. This with the objective of building customer retention and increased volumes through differentiation.

Reporting to the General Manager Commercial - Communications you will:

• Support the development of the Commercial Marketing and Communications strategy focused on supporting Rio Tinto in selling all products to the customers who value them most in the most effective and innovative way.
• Lead a team responsible for delivery of the marketing communications strategy ensuring our customers and potential customers know about our products and service offerings, while promoting our unique value propositions.
• Work with individual commodity sales and marketing teams to develop commodity specific marketing and communications strategies
• Coordinate and deliver marketing collateral, international product launches and campaigns, graphic design, copywriting, user experience management, content management, production, research and analysis, advertising, social media, merchandising, video
• Work with the Sales and Marketing and Brand and Reputations team to monitor competitor/industry trends and customer research in order to help shape our performance assessment and future strategy.
• Manage the Commercial Marketing and Communications team, including performance management, development planning and operational management.
• Prepare and coordinate training programs to increase team knowledge levels.
• Provide support and coordination to the Commercial Senior Leadership Team (SLT) on annual customer engagement surveys and other feedback mechanisms
• While based in Commercial, the team would work with consideration to the broader Rio Tinto corporate level brand objectives.
• Manage resource requirement through engagement with external agencies / contracting resources

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Bachelor's degree or higher with minimum 15 years of progressive Marketing Communication experience preference to B2B marketing experience
• Track record in effective business partnering to strategic marketing leaders in a global organisation
• Sound knowledge and application of content development for digital ad, paid ad and innovative story telling via multiple media
• Strong knowledge of marketing and communication technologies and tools
• Excellent project management skills, analytical and business acumen
• Strong mindset and behaviours of team player in a highly collaborative, diverse & matrix environment
• Curiosity & interest in Commercial aspects of the business
• Have worked in global roles (across time zones and cultures) and able to deliver through collaboration in a complex, networked/matrix global organisation

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• Experienced in marketing communication in the extractives sector

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Commercial puts the company's value over volume approach into practice, with the goal of maximizing the value of our physical flows to improve both our business and that of our customers. Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto's assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customer's needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality, cost and capital expenditure.

About us

As pioneers in mining and metals, we produce materials essential to human progress.

Aluminium for cars and smartphones. Copper for wind turbines, electric cars and the pipes that bring water to our home. Iron ore to shape our city skylines. Borates that help crops grow, titanium for paint and diamonds that celebrate the best things in life.

Our long history is filled with firsts. We've developed some of the world's largest and best quality mines and operations, and our people work in around 35 countries across six continents.

Creating an inclusive and diverse workforce

We are a diverse team of talented, enthusiastic individuals who foster a culture of inclusion. No matter how they may differ, our people share one thing in common. It's a belief that work is more rewarding when we are accepted and valued for our differences, not judged by them. We all have something to contribute, and it's this contribution that makes for a great organization and fulfilling career.

Application Deadline: 05th May 2021 COB Singapore time



Please note, in order to be successfully considered for a role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

"Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings at its discretion, therefore, if you are interested in applying for this vacancy please submit your application as soon as possible."