Senior Manager Commercial, North America Rio Tinto Exploration

• Exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of driving Rio Tinto's growth pipeline
• Multi Commodity & broad geographic exposure
• Collaboration with multiple teams within the business globally role based in USA or Canada (locations flexible)

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We are looking for a Senior Manager Commercial North America to be an integral part of our Americas region. This role will directly report into the Head of Exploration Commercial but will have a strong linkage into the Exploration Director Americas. The role will be part of a highly commercial, global team of professionals and is ultimately responsible for driving the end-to-end exploration deal flow and devising appropriate commercial entry and exit strategies. Deal flow spans simple earn-ins to complex joint ventures, and you will be expected to navigate across all key workstreams (community, legal, land-title, tax, economic) to secure investable terms for the RT Group.

This is a highly autonomous role that will see the successful individual at the forefront of driving the growth agenda in their region. You will be:

• Screening opportunities - Assisting technical teams in the screening and evaluation of opportunities as well as putting together the commercial entry and exit strategy. You will also working in close collaboration with business analysis teams to develop financial evaluation models.
• Leading and closing commercial negotiations being at the forefront of negotiations in combination with technical experts and managing key legal workstreams for drafting of agreements.
• The commercial face in your region expected to be building and leveraging your networks.
• Sharing and seeking out knowledge, best practices and resources across the group and in the mining industry generally and developing a network of internal and external capabilities

What you'll bring

• Fluent English skills. Other languages highly regarded, but not critical - Spanish, French & Portuguese.
• Multi commodity/resource experience highly valued
• Substantial experience in a similar role:
  • Background or significant experience in commercial field - investment banking, corporate finance, private equity, strategy
  • Ability to lead complex negotiations and interact with internal legal, tax and other key support workstreams.
  • Ability to understand key business case drivers and succinctly package these up to support deals.
• Significant international exposure with ability to travel
• Fast paced and energetic approach
• Collaborative work style with strong communication& presentation skills & an ability to work closely with a diverse team of multi-skilled individual

What we offer

Be recognized 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 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)

Where you'll be working

The Rio Tinto Exploration division (RTX) is a global division of Rio Tinto that is responsible for Rio Tinto's greenfield and brownfield exploration programmes and is focused on delivering the next great growth project for Rio Tinto to own and operate.

RTX has been a cornerstone of our business for more than 70 years and is core to our DNA. We've consistently funded exploration efforts through this period and in recent times our spend has averaged around $200 million per year.

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe. Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

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