Principal Advisor, Commercial (Contract to Cash) Master Data

• An exciting opportunity to be part of a leading global mining company that produces and supplies materials that are essential to human progress
• An opportunity to work with key stakeholders across our Commercial organisation
• An opportunity to leverage your master data management and data governance skills
• H Band MDM role based in Montreal, QC or Singapore

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

High quality commercial master data streamlines downstream process execution, reduces compliance risk, and reduces costs by eliminating rework. It enables analytics, benchmarking and comparison analysis across core enterprise dimensions and unlocks insights.

Reporting to the Manager, Commercial Transformation, you will contribute to the following:

Data Stewardship and Data Governance

• Act as the Steward of the Commercial Master Data Strategy and Roadmap.
• Contribute to building up capability for the provisioning of data stewardship services for select commercial master data objects under our remit. This includes being responsible for data standards and ensuring data quality and compliance.

Product Ownership

• Act as the Product Owner for master data solutions forming part of our active data governance framework. Improve existing solutions and lead the development of new solutions.
• Drive integration of master data from recognised sources-of-truth to downstream Commercial applications and systems, using consistent integration patterns and approaches.

Business Process Ownership

• Develop, maintain and optimise master data related business processes relating to select commercial master data objects under our remit.

Advisory and Quality Assurance

• Provide advisory and quality assurance services to projects and initiatives needing to establish or consume commercial master data.

Drive improvement

• Pro-actively seek out improvement opportunities and ways to streamline our processes, not only in our direct team but across our extended network of internal partners.
• Table proposals for improvements, discuss these with leadership and actively contribute and prioritise the team’s backlog.

Data Analysis and Design

• Profile data sets, look for patterns, and perform root cause analysis using data-driven approaches.
• Design data models, data architectures, and processes that align with business needs and data strategy.

Stakeholder Management

• Contribute to and lead engagements with Commercial Master Data Community of Practice (CoP) members to drive consensus and decision making on master data related improvement and definition work.
• Socialise and seek endorsement of key design decisions to relevant senior leadership governance committees.

Leadership

• Provide direct line leadership responsibilities to team members located in multiple Commercial hub locations.
• Manage relationships with partner offshore development and support teams, who play a key role in enabling and sustaining our data solutions.

About You

• University degree in either a technical or commercial discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in data design, data engineering, or data delivery roles.
• Demonstrated experience in master data management (MDM), or exposure and understanding of master data and data quality (DQ) concepts.
• Demonstrated functional experience aligned to the GPO such as sales and distribution, contract to cash or logistics, or other commercial-related disciplines such as procurement.
• Demonstrated experience with ERP systems, specifically SAP ECC or SAP S/4 HANA.
• Demonstrated experience in leading design discussions and reaching consensus amongst diverse group of stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience and understanding of relational database concepts and data modeling, including database management platforms such as SQL Server.
• Demonstrated skills in analytical and information management analysis, data interpretation, and problem-solving ability, including:
  • Data querying skills using advanced analytics toolsets such as SQL.
  • Exposure to BI tools such as Power BI.
• Ability to contribute to strategy work and senior leadership communications.
• Fluent in French and English, both written and spoken. Rio Tinto is a global company and the duties of this position require daily collaboration with colleagues, teams or partners based outside Quebec.

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 tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan
• Wellbeing benefits
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program
• Employee Assistance Program
• Ongoing individual well-being support for you and your family for personal and professional matters

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Commercial puts the company’s value over-volume approach into practice, with the goal of maximizing the value of our physical flows to improve both our business and that of our customers. Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto’s assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customer’s needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality, cost, and capital expenditure.

Application Deadline: April 14, 2025 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing date)

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

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.