Specialist, Technical - Business Planning Architecture

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Who We Are

We are a global mining company dedicated to safely delivering nickel, copper, cobalt, and platinum group metals essential for the world’s energy transition.

Our mission is to improve lives and shape a better future together.

From utensils to cellphones to satellites, our operations simplify daily life and enhance connectivity. Our metals are integral to life-saving medical equipment and the electric vehicles driving the fight against climate change – our work truly matters.

Join our diverse team of 15,000 talented individuals committed to transforming critical minerals into prosperity and sustainable development in countries like Canada, Brazil, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, and Japan. We invite you to use your skills with us and contribute to something meaningful and enduring.

The Opportunity

We are seeking a Specialist, Technical – Business Planning Architecture to join our Operating Model team in Toronto, Ontario or Sudbury, Ontario or Saint John’s, Newfoundland.

This is a permanent position reporting to the Head of Operating Model. The Specialist will play a critical role in coordinating and continuously improving Vale Base Metals' integrated business planning cycle, ensuring alignment across the Strategic Guidance, Resource Development Plan (RDP), Life of Business Plan (LoBP), and Budget processes.

The successful candidate will act as a key governance owner, connecting stakeholders across the business to deliver an effective, integrated planning process. This role requires strong project management, stakeholder influence, process design, and executive communication capabilities to drive enterprise-wide outcomes and support better decision-making across VBM.

This is a highly visible role with frequent interaction with senior leaders across the organization and the opportunity to directly influence how the company plans, allocates resources, and creates value.

About You

You are a proactive and highly organized professional who thrives in complex, fast-paced environments. You have experience leading enterprise planning, PMO (Project Management Office), transformation, or governance initiatives involving multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

You are comfortable influencing without direct authority, navigating ambiguity, resolving conflicting viewpoints, and maintaining momentum toward key business objectives. You take ownership, exercise sound judgment, and consistently deliver high-quality outputs with minimal direction.

In this role, you will:

• Lead the overarching governance and coordination of VBM's integrated Business Planning cycle (Strategic Guidance, RDP, LoBP and Budget), partnering with the owners of each of these processes, who remain accountable for its content.

• Act as an active project manager for the cycle: manage the calendar, milestones, dependencies and governance forums, keeping pace and alignment across stakeholders.

• Drive alignment across Technical, Operations, Finance, Strategy, Commercial, HR, Sustainability, Business Units and related areas, and support bringing more areas into the Operating Model cycle to strengthen planning and the business cadence.

• Anticipate risks and opportunities and take the lead in proposing mitigation or capture plans, engaging the right people early, then drive them to resolution and escalate when required.

• Own and continuously improve the cycle's governance framework (RACIs, playbooks and interfaces), simplifying and standardizing to increase planning maturity. Ensure process owners keep their processes formalized and current in VBM's applicable process and normative document systems, actively supporting them to do so.

• Coordinate executive reviews, workshops and planning forums, and develop executive-ready presentations, updates and recommendations.

• Monitor cycle progress and effectiveness through KPIs, ensuring checks and balances are in place and that decisions, actions and accountabilities are documented and followed through.

• Build consensus across functions with differing priorities, influencing stakeholders toward the best outcomes for VBM as a whole.

Experience

• Minimum 8 years of progressive experience in Business Planning, Strategic Planning, PMO, Transformation, Business Process Management, Consulting, or related disciplines.
• Proven experience leading recurring cross-functional planning or governance cycles with fixed timelines and multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience managing enterprise projects, milestones, risks, dependencies, and governance structures in complex environments.
• Experience designing, implementing, or improving business processes, operating models, or governance frameworks.
• Proven ability to influence stakeholders and deliver outcomes without direct authority.
• Experience preparing presentations, recommendations, and updates for senior leaders and executive audiences.
• Experience within mining, metals, natural resources, manufacturing, energy, infrastructure, or other asset-intensive industries is considered an asset.
• PMO, Transformation Office, or Management Consulting experience is considered an asset

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Commerce, Finance, Economics, Operations Management, Project Management, or a related discipline.

• MBA or other advanced degree is considered an asset.

• PMP, Lean, Six Sigma, Change Management, Business Process Management, or related certifications are considered assets.

• Portuguese language capability is considered an asset

Skills & Competencies

• Strong project and program management capabilities.

• Excellent planning, organization, and prioritization skills.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing abilities.

• Experience with business process design, process architecture, governance, and operating model development.

• Exceptional executive communication, presentation, and facilitation skills.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking capabilities.

• Ability to work independently and make sound decisions within scope.

• Comfortable operating in ambiguous and evolving environments.

• Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and tight deadlines.

• Strong collaboration and relationship-building skills.

• Understanding of long-term planning, budgeting, capital allocation, and enterprise planning processes.

• Knowledge of mining operations, finance, and value-based management concepts is considered an asset.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel, and collaboration tools.

What We Offer You

• Competitive compensation including a variable annual incentive plan
• Participation in a competitive Defined Contribution Pension package
• Comprehensive benefits package (company paid core coverage, health and dental coverage, flex accounts, disability plans, and optional insurances)
• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation, personal, sick, parental)
• Work culture dedicated to safety, diversity & inclusion, and career growth
• Employee Family Assistance Program
• Virtual Healthcare online
• Online training and career development opportunities

Why Toronto

Toronto, Canada’s largest city and financial hub, is a center of innovation, commerce, and culture. Known for its diverse economy and vibrant urban environment, Toronto offers unparalleled access to talent, technology, and global connectivity.

Our Toronto office serves as a strategic hub for corporate functions, technology development, and business operations. Here, we drive initiatives that support Vale Base Metals’ global operations, leveraging advanced analytics, digital transformation, and strategic planning to ensure operational excellence across all regions.

Toronto’s dynamic ecosystem enables collaboration with leading technology partners, universities, and research institutions, fostering innovation in mining and metals processing. This location is integral to shaping the future of sustainable mining and advancing our commitment to responsible resource development

Include to Transform

At Vale Base Metals, we are committed to ensuring an inclusive work environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. Vale encourages everyone to express their ideas and opinions and values the plurality of individual profiles. We want our people to feel that all.

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 critical to our success. We treat each other

fairly and with dignity regardless of race, gender, nationality, ethnic origin, religion, age, sexual orientation, or any other personal consideration that makes us different.

Vale is an equal opportunity employer seeking to increase diversity across our operations and improve equal opportunity at Vale and in the mining industry.

Accommodation is available throughout our recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.

Vale uses artificial intelligence to screen, assess, and/or select applicants for this position.

Pay Grade: F3T

Minimum Starting Salary: $ 112,800

Apply by: 17TH Nov

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