Rio Tinto
10,000+ employees
⚡ Energy
🏭 Manufacturing
🔥 Funding within the last year
💰 $1.2G Post-IPO Debt on 2026-03
Energy • Manufacturing
Rio Tinto is a global mining and metals company that finds, extracts and processes the raw materials the world needs. It supplies iron ore for steelmaking, low‑carbon aluminium, copper for electrification and renewable energy infrastructure, borates for agriculture and titanium minerals for industrial uses. The company focuses on exploration, mining operations, mineral processing and enabling materials for energy transition and industrial customers.
Principal Adviser, Ethics & Compliance, Privacy
Job not on LinkedIn
🕒 4 days ago
🌐 United Kingdom, Singapore, +1 more countries – Remote
⏰ Full Time
🔴 Lead
🚔 Compliance
👻 Ghost score 10%
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Rio Tinto
10,000+ employees
⚡ Energy
🏭 Manufacturing
🔥 Funding within the last year
💰 $1.2G Post-IPO Debt on 2026-03
Energy • Manufacturing
Rio Tinto is a global mining and metals company that finds, extracts and processes the raw materials the world needs. It supplies iron ore for steelmaking, low‑carbon aluminium, copper for electrification and renewable energy infrastructure, borates for agriculture and titanium minerals for industrial uses. The company focuses on exploration, mining operations, mineral processing and enabling materials for energy transition and industrial customers.
📋 Description
• Provide senior, commercially pragmatic privacy and data protection advice across global businesses, operations, functions and major projects • Lead or oversee complex privacy and data protection impact assessments, technology deployments and transformation programs • Advise on sensitive workforce and contractor privacy matters, including health information, biometrics, monitoring, surveillance, geolocation and safety technologies • Guide responses to complex privacy incidents, data breaches, individual rights matters and regulatory engagements across multiple jurisdictions • Draft, review and negotiate privacy and data protection provisions, international data transfer arrangements and high-risk third-party terms • Advise on cross-border transfers, artificial intelligence, automated decision-making, data analytics and emerging technologies where privacy risks arise • Support major transactions, acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures and organisational change • Develop global privacy positions, guardrails and precedents • Collaborate across Legal, Ethics & Compliance, People, Health, IS&T, Cyber and Procurement • Manage external counsel and specialist advisers as required • Report to the General Manager, Privacy, Data & AI Governance / Global Data Protection Officer
🎯 Requirements
• Commitment to the safety of yourself and your team • Qualified lawyer admitted, or previously admitted, to practise in a recognised jurisdiction • Significant post-qualification legal experience • Deep privacy and data protection expertise gained at a senior level within a large, complex multinational organisation • Broad practical experience across privacy impact assessments, incidents and breaches, sensitive information, privacy contracting, international data transfers and workforce privacy • Demonstrated ability to interpret complex privacy requirements and translate them into clear, proportionate and practical advice for senior leaders • Experience operating independently across multiple jurisdictions • Experience managing external law firms or specialist privacy advisers
🏖️ Benefits
• Annual incentive program • Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for employees and immediate family • Attractive share ownership plan • Company provided insurance cover • Extensive salary sacrifice & salary packaging options • Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions • Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical wellbeing support • Leave for all of life’s reasons • Exclusive employee discounts across banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more • Flexibility to be based from an appropriate Rio Tinto hub location • Occasional travel may be required
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