Sobre el Rol
Únete a nuestro equipo como HR Business Partner – Proyectos Sudamérica, donde desempeñarás un rol clave en habilitar la entrega exitosa de grandes proyectos de capital y crecimiento en toda Sudamérica. Este rol de HR Business Partner Banda G trabaja en estrecha colaboración con líderes senior de proyectos para traducir la estrategia del negocio y de los proyectos en estrategias integradas de personas, asegurando una ejecución efectiva a lo largo de todo el ciclo de vida del proyecto.
El puesto se desarrolla en un entorno de proyectos complejo y dinámico, y brinda soporte a múltiples proyectos y transiciones, incluyendo fases de rampa inicial, ejecución y transición a operaciones.
Principales Responsabilidades
- Actuar como asesor/a estratégico/a y coach de confianza en Recursos Humanos para Directores de Proyecto y equipos de liderazgo senior en proyectos de Sudamérica.
- Traducir los objetivos de los proyectos y del portafolio en estrategias integradas de personas, fuerza laboral y capacidades.
- Proporcionar insights prospectivos de personas, identificando riesgos, oportunidades y compensaciones que impacten en la entrega de los proyectos.
- Liderar e influir en iniciativas de diseño organizacional, planificación de la fuerza laboral y gestión del cambio, alineadas con los hitos del proyecto.
- Diagnosticar y abordar necesidades relacionadas con cultura, compromiso y capacidades de liderazgo en entornos de proyectos complejos.
- Actuar como punto de escalamiento para temas complejos de personas, fuerza laboral y relaciones laborales, asegurando el cumplimiento de los estándares corporativos y los requisitos regulatorios locales.
- Coordinar soluciones integrales de RR. HH. de punta a punta, colaborando con Áreas de Especialidad, Servicios Compartidos y proveedores internos de servicios.
- Aportar retroalimentación e insights para la mejora continua de marcos, políticas y procesos de RR. HH. en el contexto de proyectos.
- Contribuir a la agenda más amplia de RR. HH. y Proyectos mediante el intercambio de lecciones aprendidas, promoviendo consistencia y resultados a nivel empresa.
Lo Que Aportarás
- Debe contar con una licenciatura en Recursos Humanos, Administración de Empresas o un campo afín.
- Debe contar con un mínimo de 10 años de experiencia en liderazgo.
- Experiencia reconocida en HR Business Partnering a nivel senior (Banda G o equivalente), idealmente en entornos de proyectos, ejecución de capital, minería o industrias afines.
- Sólidas capacidades en diseño organizacional, estrategia de fuerza laboral y liderazgo del cambio.
- Capacidad demostrada para acompañar, influir y desafiar constructivamente a líderes senior.
- Experiencia comprobada gestionando complejidad, riesgos y prioridades competitivas con múltiples grupos de interés.
- Fuertes habilidades de colaboración y capacidad para trabajar eficazmente en contextos multiculturales y geográficos diversos.
- Enfoque comercial y analítico, con habilidad para transformar insights en acciones prácticas.
About The Role
Join our team as HR Business Partner – Projects South America, where you will play a critical role in enabling the successful delivery of major capital and growth projects across South America. This Band G HR Business Partner role partners with senior project leaders to translate business and project strategy into integrated people strategies, ensuring effective execution across the full project lifecycle.
The role operates within a complex, fast-paced project environment and supports multiple projects and transitions, including ramp-up, execution, and transition to operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a trusted HR advisor and coach to Project Directors and senior leadership teams across South America projects.
- Translate project and portfolio objectives into integrated people, workforce, and capability strategies.
- Provide forward-looking people insights, identifying risks, opportunities, and trade-offs that impact project delivery.
- Lead and influence organisational design, workforce planning, and change initiatives aligned to project milestones.
- Diagnose and address cultural, engagement, and leadership capability needs in complex project environments.
- Serve as an escalation point for complex people, workforce, and industrial relations matters, ensuring alignment with company standards and local regulatory requirements.
- Orchestrate end-to-end HR solutions by partnering with Areas of Expertise, Shared Services, and internal service providers.
- Provide feedback and insights to continuously improve HR frameworks, policies, and processes in a projects context.
- Contribute to the broader HR and Projects agenda by sharing lessons learned and driving consistency and enterprise outcomes.
What You'll Bring
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration or a related field.
- Must have a minimum of 10 years of leadership experience.
- Recognised expertise in HR Business Partnering at a senior level (Band G or equivalent), ideally within projects, capital delivery, mining, or industrial environments.
- Strong capability in organisational design, workforce strategy, and change leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to coach and influence senior leaders and challenge conventional thinking.
- Proven experience managing complexity, risk, and competing priorities across multiple stakeholders.
- Strong collaboration skills and ability to work effectively across geographies and cultures.
- Commercial and analytical acumen, translating insight into practical action.
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.
Where you will be working
Recognized as a pioneer and leader in the industrial minerals industry due to product quality, supply reliability and technical support; we are proud to make modern life work. Lithium is part of our portfolio of materials essential to a low-carbon future and is a key element needed for low-carbon technologies. The Battery Materials unit is comprised of the Borates operations in US, the Jadar Project in Serbia and the Rincon project in Argentina, leading in mining borates and lithium for a more sustainable future. The Rincon lithium project is a large undeveloped lithium brine project located in the heart of the lithium triangle in the Salta Province of Argentina, an emerging hub for greenfield projects. It is a long-life, scalable resource with one of the lowest carbon footprints of lithium assets in the world. This acquisition is a significant further endorsement of our commitment to the battery materials sector and lithium's role in a low-carbon future.
Respect and Inclusion
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA2 community, mature workers, people with disabilities, and people from different cultural backgrounds. We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable being 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.
