Principal Adviser, Leadership Capability

Principal Adviser, Leadership Capability

• Strategic partnering with focus on long term business outcomes
• Established role in a large,dynamic, business-critical team
• Permanent role based in Salt Lake City, Utah

About the role

We are seeking a Principal Advisor, Leadership Capability to join our team at a pivotal moment in our cultural transformation and safety journey. This is a high-impact role designed to strengthen and sustain leadership capabilities across Kennecott, driving meaningful change from the frontline to senior leadership.

As a trusted partner to our leaders and a key member of the business, you will design and deliver development strategies that directly align with our new leadership expectations. You will help create the culture for our leaders to thrive, enabling a strong, inclusive, and high-performing operation.

What You'll Be Responsible For

• Designing & Leading Mid-Level Leadership Engagements:
  Develop a structured and sustainable rhythm of leadership engagements for our management leadership team (MLT). This includes co-design with business leaders, coordination, program management, and potentially facilitation of sessions tailored to manager level leadership expectations.
• Embedding New Leadership Expectations:
  Lead efforts to embed and sustain our new leadership expectations across all levels of leadership-Supervisor, Superintendent, Manager, and General Manager-ensuring consistent application and alignment. Ensuring all capability building initiatives, tools, and communications are aligned with these leadership expectations.
• Development Strategy Across Leadership Levels:
  Build a fit-for-purpose strategy for leadership development across all leadership levels, aligned to our organizational goals and leadership expectations while leveraging and collaborating with the Global Learning Team. The strategy will include experiences and resources from the global team along with any localized efforts for specific capability building identified within the business.
• Implementing Global Programs:
  Partner with our global Talent team to support implementation of the new global Supervisor and Superintendent programs that have been designed based on the new leadership expectations. While not responsible for program design, you will play a key role in developing the implementation plan, working with preferred vendors, and ensuring these programs are successfully rolled out for the Kennecott business.
• Driving Coaching Strategy:
  Establish a consistent and scalable leadership coaching framework, including guidelines, tools, onboarding, and evaluation mechanisms to support leader development.
  • Assess the current state of 1:1 leadership coaching and align with the global coaching model (GROW).
  • Partners with preferred vendors as needed to ensure coaching support is available and effective. This could include vendor consolidation based on the current state.
  • Design and implement peer-to-peer coaching programs suited to Kennecott's unique context and culture.

What you'll bring

You are a strategic thinker, a trusted advisor, and a passionate advocate for leadership development. You have a proven ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of an organization, and you thrive in an environment that requires influencing, collaboration, creativity, and delivering results.

To succeed in this role you should have:

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Bachelors degree in a related field
• Proven ability to design and lead business-wide leadership capability strategies that embed leadership expectations and align with organizational goals
• Excellent influencing and stakeholder engagement skills
• Deep understanding of leadership development and organizational culture
• A collaborative and proactive mindset
• Strong experience in change management and program deployment
• Experience managing vendor relationships
• Experience in coaching leaders; coaching certification is a plus

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
• Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus
• Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits
• Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program
• Attractive share ownership plan
• Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life: PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave
• A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you're able to spend quality time with your new family
• Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing
• Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life's challenges

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 situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

Rio Tinto is committed to equal employment opportunity. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel safe, respected and valued. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome but are essential to our success. We treat all our people fairly and with dignity.

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