Specialist Sourcing - Global Services

Rio Tinto
Brisbane, QLD, AU
Competitive
May 10, 2021
May 27, 2021
345954175
Trade & Skilled
Permanent
Full Time
English
Specialist Sourcing Technology and Outsourcing
  • Be part of the world's leading mining organisation
  • Work with in a diverse, challenging and rewarding environment
  • Brisbane base, Global Sourcing for Information, Systems, Technology

About the role

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

We are looking for a Specialist Technology and Outsourcing to join the Rio Tinto Procurement Global Sourcing Services team. Based from our Brisbane office you will help deliver high quality commercial outcomes and expertise to our technology and product group stakeholders in addition to nurturing and maintaining supplier relationships to ensure the service levels meet our business needs and return on investment.

This role is a great opportunity for someone who possess strong relationship/supplier management, is an SME in IT and is adaptable to a constant changing environment

We are an open, connected global team that includes some of the industry's best and brightest minds. We offer competitive, performance-focused remuneration and a wide range of benefits to reward your contribution. With a global reach, the opportunities to develop and grow your career are broad and exciting.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor Technology and Outsourcing and working within a global sourcing team based across Perth, Brisbane and Montreal you will:

Build a strong understanding of internal needs and external dynamics to formulate sourcing strategies relating to Information and Technology
  • Manage relationships with a broad range of internal customers at various levels
  • Provide commercial advice and guidance to the business
  • Deploy sourcing programs through using best practice and relevant tools
  • Conduct bid analysis and present a business case for recommendation
  • Negotiate, execute, implement and manage contracts
  • Manage day-to-day change and integration processes with suppliers.
  • Optimise the supply chain to ensure greatest value to the business and that supply risk management plans/contingencies are considered
  • Manage the implementation of ongoing continuous improvement programs with suppliers and business stakeholders
  • Identify and act on opportunity to improve and streamline existing processes and procedures

What you'll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:
  • Bachelor's degree in a commercial or financial discipline
  • Ability to write and execute contracts
  • Excellent customer relationship management skills ability to hold your own and converse on a technical level
  • Strong supplier relationship management skills
  • Strong commercial acumen and negotiation skills
  • Strong technology domain expertise in sourcing
  • Strong problem solver with a strategic outlook and good analytical capability

It will also be beneficial if you have:
  • Information Technology qualification or training
  • Previous experience in information technology procurement, with emphasis on ICT infrastructure (data and voice services, cloud computing, server and storage platforms)
  • Mining and Resources industry experience

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 24 May 2021 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)