People Partner

Rio Tinto • Salt Lake City, UT

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About The Position

The People Partner translates business strategy into practical people and workforce plans across a defined portfolio. Supporting the Exploration Americas team, the role partners with senior leaders on workforce priorities, talent, performance, employee and labour relations, engagement and organisational change in complex, large-scale and often multi-geography environments. The People Partner coordinates delivery with People Experience and specialist teams, uses workforce and employee data to inform targeted actions, and coaches leaders to improve team effectiveness and employee experience. The role can be based in Salt Lake City or Santiago.

Requirements

• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior leaders, provide practical advice and translate business priorities into actionable people outcomes.
• Business partnering experience across workforce planning, performance, talent, engagement and organisational change in a complex organisation.
• Sound judgement in applying employee and labour relations frameworks, coordinating specialist support and managing or escalating risk.
• Ability to interpret workforce, engagement, case or query data and convert findings into targeted business actions.
• Experience working across people teams and specialist functions to deliver consistent, high-quality outcomes within agreed timeframes.
• Fluency in both Spanish and English, with strong written and verbal communication skills in both languages.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting leaders across large-scale, operational or multi-geography environments.
• Experience with union matters, organisational restructures or enterprise-wide change and transformation initiatives.
• Experience facilitating talent or performance calibration sessions and supporting fair, consistent pay review decisions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with senior leaders on day-to-day people matters, shape priorities and coordinate delivery through People Experience and specialist teams.
• Translate people strategies into practical workforce and people plans with clear actions and near-term priorities.
• Collaborate with Organisation and Talent Partners, People Experience, Areas of Expertise, Talent and Reward, and other specialist People teams to deliver aligned strategies and initiatives.
• Deliver operational workforce planning and facilitate strategic workforce plan fulfilment with relevant stakeholders.
• Guide leaders through complex employee and labour relations matters, including escalations.
• Lead performance, talent and pay review processes, including calibration activities, to support fair, consistent and timely outcomes.
• Use employee engagement, workforce, case and query data to identify trends and develop targeted actions that improve team effectiveness and employee experience.
• Lead the people aspects of organisational change and restructures, enabling leaders and supporting effective communication, engagement and adoption.
• Coach leaders on performance, team effectiveness and employee experience, and share portfolio insights to inform enterprise people strategies and frameworks.

Benefits

• Competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees.
• Career development and education assistance.
• Family-friendly health and medical programs and a pension plan.
• Wellbeing benefits.
• Rio Tinto employee share program.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for employees and their families for personal and professional matters.
• Leave including vacation/annual leave, paid parental leave and sick leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed