Why explore
- An opportunity to drive improvements
- Exposure to global operations, processes and stakeholders
- Work in a collaborative and fast paced environment
- Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto
About The Role
We are seeking a
Senior Advisor Business Analyst who will plays a pivotal role in analyzing complex business scenarios, defining requirements, and enabling the delivery of digital solutions across the Rio Tinto Commercial. This role serves as a digital business partner, bridging technologists and business stakeholders. It identifies pain points through the business user's lens and translate business requirements into technical specifications and work closely with software developers/engineering team to implement solutions.
Reporting to the Digital Manager, you will
- Lead the full requirements lifecycle, delivering clear, actionable user stories and specifications.
- Engage crossfunctional stakeholders through expert consultancy and structured facilitation.
- Support change readiness, training, and adoption for new systems and processes.
- Analyse endtoend business processes to identify gaps, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities.
- Partner with business stakeholders, digital/delivery managers, data analysts/scientists and platform/engineering teams to ensure alignment and clarity throughout delivery.
- Possess deep knowledge of endtoend system and data flows, reporting needs, and integration requirements to guide analytics and system enhancements.
- Serve as the data subjectmatter expert and owner of the business data glossary, ensuring consistency, quality, and alignment within the assigned domain.
- Identify and champion innovation opportunities that elevate business efficiency and user experience.
About You
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or any related discipline is preferred.
- At least 5 years of experience as a Business Analyst/Product Owner in translating business requirements into actionable digital deliverables.
- Hands-on experience with SQL and/or data analysis/ETL tool (Python, Snowflake, Power BI, Databricks, etc) to analyse and interpret complex data sets to provide insights.
- Proven track record in delivering digital products/solutions using Scrum/SDLC Methodology. Certified Product Owner or Scrum Master is preferred.
- Experience in creating test plans, test scenarios, and test cases to support system changes and project delivery.
- Strong analytical, communication and facilitation skills across diverse stakeholder groups.
- Experience in commodity trading/supply value chain, CTRM, ERP or datadriven environments preferred.
- Having human centred design or design thinking experience will be a plus.
What We Offer
- 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)
Where you will be working
Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.
Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering crossfunctionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver minetomarket value around the world.
Application Deadline 20 February 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)
Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.
Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.
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.
Respect and Inclusion
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. We want our people to feel that all voices are heard, all cultures respected and that a variety of perspectives are not only welcome they are essential to our success. We treat each other fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation or anything else that makes us different.
