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Procurement Specialist - Facilities Management

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Perth, WA, AU
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Jan 24, 2022

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Category
Audit & Legal, Marketing & Commercial
Work Term
Permanent
Work Load
Full Time
Language
English

Job Details

Procurement Category Specialist - Facilities Management
  • Key role in diverse global procurement organisation
  • Attractive salary package and eligibility for a wide range of Rio Tinto benefits
  • Flexible work environment, CBD location Perth
  • 2 x permanent opportunities available

About the role

We are looking for two Procurement Specialists Facilities Management to join our Global Procurement team, focussing on global category management and contract and vendor management across the Facilities Management (FM) portfolio.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who has contractual, commercial and strategic acumen coupled with strong stakeholder management, influencing and communication skills. This role will support the Senior Manager and Principal Advisor to ensure internal customers receive best in class commercial and contractual support to deliver their business objectives.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, you will be responsible for:
  • Developing and maintaining strong customer relationships with Business Units and leading regional stakeholder engagement at all levels of the organisation.
  • Working collaboratively with our outsourced suppliers to ensure the most appropriate value is obtained, motivate to deliver to performance expectations with a partnership approach.
  • Measuring and reporting on supplier Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) while leading supplier review meetings.
  • Following the Rio Tinto Procurement strategic sourcing framework with specific emphasis on contract and supplier management.
  • Dispensation of timely and appropriate contract management and commercial advice consistent with global category strategy, in an operational environment that is constantly evolving.
  • Managing disputes and claim resolutions as well as variations and other Contract Management activities
  • Ensuring commercial activity aligns with global category strategy; and supports the development of global category strategy by communicating key objectives, needs and demands from the region.
  • Monitoring the regional FM markets which includes market supply/demand analysis, key market drivers, internal forecasts, future trend analysis and changes to technology & regulatory environments.
  • Presenting projects & initiatives with continuous improvement, commercial value focus;
  • Taking an active role in embedding the safety and performance culture within the team
  • Investigate and resolve any issues with PO requisition and SAP processes

This role is a great opportunity for a thorough and results driven procurement professional to support RTP by applying strong commercial acumen in translating business needs into commercial solutions.

What you'll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will ideally have:
  • A Bachelor / Tertiary qualifications in a related discipline including business, commerce, engineering, or Law. A CIPS Certificate or Diploma in Purchasing or Supply is desirable.
  • Strong experience in contract development, negotiation and ongoing contract management.
  • Strong organisational, problem solving, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Effective verbal and written communication and influencing skills.
  • Strong data analysis, modelling and presentation development skills (Excel, Power BI and Powerpoint); Intermediate to advanced proficiency in MS Office and SAP.
  • Be able to think on your feet and be analytical, to challenge the status quo and problem-solve in a collaborative manner
  • Be committed to the safety of yourself, your team and that of RioTinto's and Suppliers' personnel.
  • Be enthusiastic, flexible and adaptable.
  • Build a positive reputation by dealing openly, fairly and consistently with external parties.
  • Managerial/Commercial experience in or exposure to Facilities Management

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
  • A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
  • Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
  • A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with 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 (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)
  • Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more)
  • Relocation packages where suitable

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.

For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.

Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium the world's first to be certified "responsible" helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.

Where you'll be working

Rio Tinto Global Procurement ensures resilient supply chains that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing and buying of goods and services for our operations. Playing a fundamental role, value is achieved through effective supplier partnerships, innovation, easy and standardised processes, e-technology, corporate social responsibility and increased commercial advantage.


Every Voice Matters


At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTI+ 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.

Applications close on 21 January 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)

Company

We are curious and creative, ingenious and hard-working. We are pioneers – exploring the boundaries of everything we do. The materials we produce are essential to human progress, and we see that progress driven by our people. Working at Rio Tinto means touching people’s lives: from exploring new materials to finding ways to tackle climate change. 

We are committed to an inclusive environment where people feel comfortable to be themselves. And 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. 

Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other.

Company info
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Rio Tinto
Telephone
+44 20 7781 2000
Location
6 St James's Square
London
London
SW1Y 4AD
Australia

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