Principal Adviser Remuneration - Incentive Design
- Shape enterprise incentive programs that translate business strategy and performance into sustainable value creation.
- Lead the strategy and design of short- and long-term incentives, influencing how performance is measured, differentiated, rewarded and communicated globally.
- Work from Brisbane, Perth or Montreal
We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.
About the role
We are looking for a Principal Adviser, Incentive Design to shape how business performance and value creation are translated into short and long term reward across Rio Tinto. Working at the intersection of reward, business performance, finance and strategy, you will tackle complex questions around design parameters, performance measures, target setting, incentive economics, differentiation and risk to develop frameworks that work across a diverse global business.
Success in this role requires deep incentive and performance expertise, supported by strong commercial, financial and analytical capability. This experience may have been developed through reward and remuneration, finance, strategy or performance management.
What you’ll be doing
Reporting to the General Manager Reward Strategy and working across the Reward function and broader business, you will:
- Translate enterprise strategy and financial and operational value drivers into short and long term incentive frameworks, scorecards, performance measures and targets that drive sustainable value creation.
- Lead the design and governance of short-term, long-term, retention, achievement and engagement award programs.
- Lead the design and calibration of performance measures, scorecards, targets and payout curves, bringing together strategic ambition, business performance, external expectations and appropriate stretch.
- Lead financial modelling, scenario and sensitivity analysis to assess the cost, risk, value-creation and performance implications of alternative incentive designs.
- Establish enterprise incentive design standards, funding methodologies and governance principles, assessing intended and unintended behaviours and ensuring appropriate alignment between performance, risk and sustainable value creation.
- Evaluate whether incentive programs are delivering their intended business, performance, talent and behavioural outcomes, using evidence and external insight to continuously evolve their design.
- Shape how our incentive programs are understood and experienced, bringing together technical expertise and compelling storytelling to translate complex program design, performance and scorecard outcomes for leaders, HR and employees.
- Monitor how in-flight incentives are performing and responsible for providing periodic updates and analysis to participants and other stakeholders, including Board committees
- Monitor market competitiveness, investor expectations and regulatory developments to inform incentive strategy and program evolution.
- Partner with broader Reward team, business partners, Communications, Finance, Strategy, Legal, Risk and Compliance to shape and align enterprise incentive design and implementation.
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
- A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
- Incentive & Performance Design: Experience designing incentive, performance or value creation frameworks that translate strategy into measurable outcomes.
- Commercial & Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of value drivers, performance measures, scorecards, target setting and incentive economics.
- Strategic & Analytical Capability: Strong analytical and modelling capability to assess scenarios, trade-offs, risks and incentive effectiveness.
- Enterprise Design: Ability to translate complex business objectives into clear enterprise frameworks, principles and decision rules.
- Stakeholder Leadership: Ability to influence senior leaders and navigate complex decisions across Finance, Strategy, People, Risk, Legal and the business.
- Ability to distill the complex into easily consumable participant material, increasing knowledge and understanding of, and engagement with, the incentive programs.
- Relevant Background: Experience in reward, finance, business performance, strategy, commercial analytics or a related discipline, with strong performance and incentive design capability.
Helpful for Success
- Experience supporting executive, Board or Remuneration Committee decision-making and governance.
- Understanding of investor, regulatory and market considerations influencing incentive design and pay-for-performance outcomes.
- Exposure to enterprise performance management, financial planning or strategic scorecard design.
- Experience working across global organisations, using data and modelling to balance enterprise principles, business outcomes and local requirements.
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 permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience, with an annual incentive program
- Comprehensive medical benefits, including subsidised private health insurance for employees and their immediate family
- Attractive matching share ownership plan
- Company provided insurance cover
- Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options
- Career development and education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
- Ongoing access to family-friendly health, medical and wellbeing support
- Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
- Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
Applications close on 11th November 2026. Applications after this date will not be accepted.
- Façonnez des programmes incitatifs à l’échelle de l’entreprise qui transforment la stratégie et la performance en création de valeur durable.
- Dirigez la stratégie et la conception des incitatifs à court et à long terme et influencez la façon dont la performance est mesurée, différenciée, récompensée et communiquée à l’échelle mondiale.
- Travaillez à Brisbane, Perth ou Montréal.
Nous trouvons de meilleures façons™ de fournir les matériaux dont le monde a besoin, aujourd’hui et pour l’avenir. Nos valeurs - bienveillance, courage et curiosité - guident notre façon de travailler et la manière dont nous nous traitons les uns les autres.
À propos du poste
Nous sommes à la recherche d’une personne pour occuper le poste de Conseiller(ère) principal(e), Conception des programmes incitatifs, afin de façonner la manière dont la performance de l’entreprise et la création de valeur se traduisent en rémunération incitative à court et à long terme chez Rio Tinto. À l’intersection de la rémunération, de la performance d’entreprise, des finances et de la stratégie, vous aborderez des questions complexes liées aux paramètres de conception, aux mesures de performance, à l’établissement des cibles, à l’économie des incitatifs, à la différenciation et au risque afin d’élaborer des cadres adaptés à une entreprise mondiale diversifiée.
Pour réussir dans ce poste, vous devrez posséder une expertise approfondie en matière de programmes incitatifs et de performance, appuyée par de solides capacités commerciales, financières et analytiques. Cette expérience peut avoir été acquise en rémunération, en finances, en stratégie ou en gestion de la performance.
Ce que vous ferez
Relevant de la direction générale, Stratégie de rémunération, et travaillant avec l’équipe Rémunération ainsi qu’avec l’ensemble de l’entreprise, vous aurez les responsabilités suivantes :
- Traduire la stratégie d’entreprise ainsi que les leviers de valeur financiers et opérationnels en cadres d’incitatifs à court et à long terme, tableaux de bord, mesures de performance et cibles favorisant une création de valeur durable.
- Diriger la conception et la gouvernance des programmes d’incitatifs à court et à long terme ainsi que des programmes de reconnaissance liés à la rétention, à l’atteinte d’objectifs et à l’engagement.
- Diriger la conception et le calibrage des mesures de performance, tableaux de bord, cibles et courbes de versement en conciliant ambition stratégique, performance de l’entreprise, attentes externes et niveau de défi approprié.
- Diriger la modélisation financière ainsi que les analyses de scénarios et de sensibilité afin d’évaluer les coûts, les risques, la création de valeur et les effets sur la performance de différentes conceptions de programmes incitatifs.
- Établir les normes de conception, les méthodes de financement et les principes de gouvernance des programmes incitatifs à l’échelle de l’entreprise, en évaluant les comportements voulus et non voulus et en veillant à l’alignement entre performance, risque et création de valeur durable.
- Évaluer, à partir de données probantes et d’analyses externes, si les programmes incitatifs produisent les résultats attendus sur les plans des affaires, de la performance, des talents et des comportements, puis faire évoluer leur conception en continu.
- Faire comprendre les programmes incitatifs et leurs résultats en alliant expertise technique et communication claire; suivre la performance des programmes en cours et fournir des analyses périodiques aux participants et aux parties prenantes, y compris les comités du conseil d’administration.
- Surveiller la compétitivité du marché, les attentes des investisseurs et l’évolution réglementaire, et collaborer avec les...