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Procurement Specialist, Planning Integration & Assets

Employer
Rio Tinto
Location
Perth, Western Australia, AUS
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
Aug 22, 2022

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

Job Details

Procurement Specialist - Planning Integration & Assets (PIA) - Business Partner Team
  • Act as commercial conduit between the Assets and the Global and Regional Procurement Category teams
  • Permanent Full time | Workplace flexibility
  • Occasional site travel required
  • Supporting RTIO Planning Integration and Assets (PIA)


About the role

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

Join the PMO/PIA Business Partner Team as we reset our focus on Business Partnering. We seek an experienced Procurement Professional to join Team PIA to work closely with RTIO PIA to create a clear procurement strategy aligned with the business priories and in collaboration with the Global and Regional category teams.

You will join a team of Procurement Specialists that drive strong engagement between key stakeholders across RTIO PIA and the category teams. The role involves engaging RTIO PIA leadership regularly, providing deeper strategic input aligned to organizational goals.

Reporting to the Procurement Business Partner - PIA, you will:
  • Consider safety and wellbeing as critical to the way we work and engage with all stakeholders;
  • Align the PIA priorities with the Global and Regional category sourcing strategies;
  • Contribute to the commercial strategies by sharing technical knowledge and developing a network of key stakeholders;
  • Support 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 RTIO PIA and category teams to deliver maximum value to the business including from time to time owning and delivering strategic projects;
  • Building understanding on priorities and pain points to simplify and support efficient delivery of commercial solutions; and
  • Identify and monitor procurement initiatives and support the mitigation of any impact to the business;
  • Solve for specific requirements while balancing the contribution to broader strategies and leverage opportunities; and
  • Coach and support stakeholders to build knowledge of commercial processes to improve efficiency and compliance

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, commercial, business improvement and/or site asset management operational 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
  • A passion and curiosity to build knowledge of your stakeholders and the work they do
  • Effective time management skills, the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities
  • Creative problem solving skills with strong strategic outlook and analytical capabilities with the courage to constructively challenge
  • 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 and well being 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)

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 13th July 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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