Commercialisation Manager/Principal Advisor - Steel Decarbonisation
- Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
- Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
- Support the commercialisation pathways!
- Real meaningful and impactful work in a mining giant
- Based in Perth, Australia or Singapore
About the role
Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.
The decarbonisation of the steel industry between now and future is likely to change the iron ore supply chain as we know it. The next 20 years will see the largest and fastest change in iron and steelmaking technology the industry has seen in decades. Positioning Rio Tinto as sustainability leaders is key in realising our ambitions, strategy and growth agenda. The Steel Decarbonisation team is at the forefront of this and will shape pathways for Rio Tinto's iron ores in a decarbonised iron and steelmaking future.
The purpose of the Rio Tinto Steel Decarbonisation (RTSD) team is to:
- Protect the long-term value of Rio Tinto's iron ore through development and scale up of cost-effective technologies that utilise our iron ores in the future low-carbon steel industry
- To position Rio Tinto to participate in the nascent green iron market, and
- To provide steel decarbonisation analysis and intelligence to support decisions on Rio Tinto's future iron ore resource portfolio, product strategy, and renewable energy development.
Success will be driven through the development and execution of a pipeline of technical and commercial opportunities, developed through deep partnerships across the value chain from ore body to steel end users
We are recruiting for a Commercialisation Manager/Principal Advisor - Steel Decarbonisation to join our team!
The primary accountability of this role is to identify, define, develop and lead commercialisation pathways for existing and emerging iron and steel decarbonisation opportunities within RTSD.
Reporting to the Senior Manager Steel Decarbonisation Business Development, you will be:
- External facing for the development of relationships with industry peers, customers, technology providers, customer representatives, JV participants and other industry stakeholders to identify and develop early-stage and partnering opportunities for RTSD.
- Lead and shape commercial aspects of projects, including participation, timing and leveraging enablers such as government and industry leveraged funding.
- Working with internal stakeholders, to identify, assess and mitigate commercial & technical risks.
- Be a key focal point for the region to strategically align and identify key interdependencies across projects in the region
What you'll bring
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- Deep interpersonal and influencing skills
- Around 10-15 years of commercial experience with a background in sales and marketing or commercial or procurement or legal
- Understanding of adjacent markets and their influence on decarbonisation pathways
- Proven abilities in navigating and operating successfully in a matrix organization, with stakeholders engagement and business partnering skills being key requisites
