Analyst, Buy

• Come and join our Procurement team!
• Permanent Opportunity with Rio Tinto
• Brisbane or Gladstone based position

About the role

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

We are looking for an Analyst, Buy to deliver supply chain services that deliver value through strategic sourcing and buying of goods and services for all operations and businesses. This is a fundamental role where value is achieved through uniformed processes, e-technology, increased corporate social responsibility and measurable savings for the group.

This is a great opportunity for a strong negotiator with strong SAP skills who can ensure that materials and services are purchased and delivered to the operations when they are required. The key success to this position is to demonstrate your ability to deliver consistent results, drive continuous improvement, and build credibility with business stakeholders.

Reporting to the Specialist, Purchase to Pay and working in a collaborative community, you will:

• Incorporate commercial acumen with technical skill in an environment that is striving to achieve high levels of compliance to process, automation and data accuracy;
• Provide a high level of customer service and accountability to deliver exceptional service, providing purchasing, expediting and data management services;
• Identify Purchase to Pay (PTP) process or system improvements and champion change to increase efficiency of purchasing service;
• Oversee end to end PTP performance for client base and provide analytical analysis on areas for improvement;
• Continuous improvement training to maintain process standardization and keep team skills at the highest competency level;
• Assist transactional purchasing automation through identifying new items for addition to the Business Unit specific catalogue from non-catalogued items ordered through the purchasing queue;
• Identify issues affecting the purchasing function including people, process and SAP system issues;
• Ensure purchase orders are created with accurate (agreed with supplier) deliver dates so that DIFOT metrics are not compromised;
• Manage order responses and PO maintenance in a timely and accurate manner to facilitate on-time delivery and payment;
• Engage with site warehousing teams to ensure timely goods receipting occurs;
• Maintain a strong relationship with branch level staff for key suppliers to sites so that delivery issues can be quickly resolved.

What you will bring

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• High school diploma or equivalent
• Bachelor level tertiary qualification would be beneficial
• Strong experience working with SAP
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Industry experience in roles such as purchasing, data management or SAP MM implementation projects
• Strong negotiation and problem solving skills with analytical capability

What we offer

• A safety-focused and inclusive working environment
• A competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards (STIP)
• Access to top tier family-friendly health and medical programs
• Excellent retirement plan
• A comprehensive leave policy that covers all moments that matter in life (vacation/annual, paid parental leave, short term sick leave, paid holidays)
• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matters
• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

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 will 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 for this role will close on October 6th 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.