Oyu Tolgoi’s workforce today is more than 97 per cent Mongolian, and a major strategic focus for the company is to develop a skilled workforce that is continuously learning. We aim to attract the best talent, so that we can together deliver a safe and globally competitive copper business that contributes to the prosperity of Mongolia.
Oyu Tolgoi LLC is operating a copper-gold mine in southern territory of Mongolia. The company aspires a vision ‘Natural wealth to enduring value, knowledge, and skill’, and pursues a mission, 'Together deliver a safe and globally competitive copper business that contributes to the prosperity of Mongolia' to build one of the largest copper-gold mines worldwide.
Manager, Business Improvement - Oyu Tolgoi
- Pivotal leadership role shaping performance and value delivery at Oyu Tolgoi LLC
- Ability to directly impact the safe delivery of organisational goals
- Location Oyu Tolgoi Site, Mongolia (FIFO / rostered arrangement)
About The Role
The Manager, Business Improvement plays a central role in driving productivity, performance, and value delivery across the business.
This is a senior leadership role accountable for managing the business improvement function across the business, with responsibility that extends well beyond traditional continuous improvement. The role owns the end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of improvement initiatives, ensuring opportunities are clearly defined, well prioritised, governed with discipline, and translated into measurable, sustained operational and financial outcomes, including cost and free cash flow.
The role sits on the Chief Operating Officer’s leadership team, working closely with senior leaders to provide clear insight, constructive challenge, and strong delivery discipline — ensuring improvement efforts result in real business impact, not activity.
A critical aspect of this role is building and leading a high-performing, inclusive team, setting clear expectations, strengthening capability, and establishing ways of working that enable strong performance, accountability, and collaboration.
Success in this role requires a leader who is deeply connected to operations, understands how value is created, and builds credibility through presence, curiosity, and practical engagement.
Key elements for success include
- Leading the business improvement function across the business, with accountability for identifying, prioritising, and delivering improvement initiatives
- Owning an integrated portfolio of initiatives, turning business priorities into a clear, sequenced delivery roadmap
- Providing program-level oversight to ensure initiatives are well scoped, actively managed, and delivered to plan
- Applying disciplined governance, stage-gates, and quality assurance to drive consistent execution
- Ensuring benefits are credible, transparent, and sustained
- Tracking progress, risks, dependencies, and value at risk across the portfolio, escalating issues early where required
- Working with senior leaders to challenge priorities, sequencing, and trade-offs
- Holding initiative owners accountable for scope, milestones, KPIs, and outcomes
- Building, developing, and leading a high-performing and inclusive team, creating clear role clarity, expectations, and a culture of trust, accountability, and continuous improvement
- Embedding consistent improvement methodologies, coaching leaders and teams to strengthen delivery capability over time
About You
To be considered for this role, you will bring
- Proven operational experience (10+ years) in asset‑intensive environments, with a strong track record of personally shaping, leading, and delivering business improvement, operational excellence, or productivity initiatives through to sustained outcomes
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple initiatives as a coherent portfolio, balancing priorities, risks, and dependencies
- Strong commercial and business acumen, with a clear understanding of how value is created and sustained
- Credibility with senior leaders, with the confidence to challenge constructively and drive accountability
- Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing teams, including setting direction, lifting capability, and fostering inclusive and respectful ways of working
- A disciplined, outcomes-focused approach to governance, performance management, and delivery
- A clear commitment to safety and Rio Tinto values
Tertiary qualifications in Lean 6 Sigma and Project Management are desirable but not essential. Professional accounting qualifications are desirable but not essential. Experience working across different geographies and cultures is highly regarded.
This is an exciting opportunity not to be missed.
Job ad closes on Apr 15, 2026
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