Innovation Acceleration Manager

7 months ago

Perth, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

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**Innovation Acceleration Manager**
- Join a newly created global team with big aspirations
- Help us deliver value from new technology development targeting operational, commercial and breakthrough opportunities from across the Group
- Partner with R&D, site and commercial teams to accelerate new technology development by working to find opportunities to unlock faster and new approaches to the Group’s most important technology development
- Multiple opportunities available in Perth, Brisbane and Montreal

**About the role**

**Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.**

We are looking for an Innovation Acceleration Manager to support the Group in accelerating the development of new technologies and facilitating their swift conversion into business and societal value.

This is an exciting and rare opportunity to work with R&D and Innovation Leaders from across the Group on a wide variety of new technologies that truly matter to strengthening our business.

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry’s best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Head of Innovation Office and working in a challenging and exciting environment within the Innovation, Science & Technology Group, you will be:

- Work collaboratively with our Product Groups and Functions to understand the specific opportunities and challenges being targeted and the key drivers of the approach being pursued
- Chart and recommend pathways to enhance these approaches, encompassing resourcing strategies, techniques for technical and commercial risk mitigation, considerations regarding scale of operation, strategies for external partnerships, and testing methodologies and beyond
- Be responsible for helping to enact these new approaches and co-leading teams in support of this.
- Collaborate heavily with Rio Tinto’s PACE Consulting team to enact new approaches effectively, prioritize projects and provide necessary support.

**What you’ll bring**
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
- An ability to engage and consult with and develop relationships multiple stakeholders at different levels of organisation and influence thinking at senior management level (GM and MD)
- Stand out critical analysis and structured hypothesis generation capability
- An ability to align the goals of specific technology development being supported and wider Group innovation goals and strategy
- An ability to manage scope, adjusting timing where required to ensure right outcomes are delivered
- Exemplary influencing skills to support enacting new approaches to in-flight technology development projects where you won’t always have line accountability
- A deep sense of curiosity and problem-solving mindset, an ability to understand technical and commercial drivers
- An understanding of project management and delivery in R&D and a focus on respectful delivery and role modelling of underpinning behaviours at all time
- Tenacity and a innate desire to find a way and courage to be objective and fact based
- Accomplished written and verbal communicator

**What we offer**

Be recognised 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 and meet opportunities.

**Where you’ll be working**

Rio Tinto’s Innovation, Science & Technology Group (ISTG) is committed to advancing the frontiers of mining technology and finding better

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