Procurement Specialist

• Act as commercial conduit between the Assets and the Global and Regional Procurement Category teams
• Permanent Full time & 12 month fixed term opportunities | Perth based Monday to Friday
• Regular site travel required
• 2 vacancies supporting Iron Ore Operational Sites

About the role

All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.

We currently have multiple roles available and are looking for experienced Procurement Specialists to work closely with our Pilbara Mine Operations (Asset) to determine goods/services requirements, then collaborate with the Global and Regional categories team to ensure alignment of category strategies and business priorities. The Procurement Specialist will have a business partnering responsibility whereby they will be the first point of contact for the Asset and facilitate control point interactions with the wider procurement team.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a partnership mindset and an appetite to add value by collaborating closely with stakeholders to optimise the path forward in terms of supply for our Assets.

You will join a team of Procurement Specialists that drive strong engagement between their specific sites, Procurement lead teams and Procurement strategy owners. The role involves engaging site leadership regularly, facilitating key supplier relationship activities & delivering site specific procurement initiatives.

Reporting to the Procurement Business Partner West/East Pilbara, you will:

• Drive 'safety' into the contract and procurement processes
• Align the Asset priorities with the Global and Regional category sourcing strategies
• Contribute to the commercial strategies by considering site requirements, local and Indigenous Australian peoples procurement and emerging market opportunities, total cost of ownership, P2P integration and security of medium to long term supply
• Support the Asset and category teams to deliver maximum value to the Asset
• Manage key suppliers' performance and reinforce KPI's as necessary
• Identify and monitor procurement initiatives and support the mitigation of any impact to the Asset
• Solve for site specific requirements while balancing the contribution to broader strategies and leverage opportunities; and
• Drive stakeholder compliance in the procurement process

What you'll bring

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• Minimum Bachelor's degree/post graduate qualification in Commerce, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain or equivalent
• Demonstrated procurement/sourcing/contract management experience
• Partnering mindset and a passion to engage multiple stakeholders, internally and externally
• Excellent communication skills to influence, engage and build strong rapport with key stakeholders
• Effective time management skills, the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities
• Creative problem solving skills with strong strategic outlook and analytical capabilities; and,
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence and collaborate cross functionally

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)