Analyst, Sourcing

Sourcing Analyst

• Genuine career development opportunities with a global leader
• Fantastic remuneration and benefits
• Permanent fulltime | Perth based | 5:2 roster

About the role

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

We are seeking a inquiring and meticulous Sourcing Analyst join Rio Tinto’s Procurement Team.

Reporting to the Sourcing Team Lead you will be responsible for creating create plans and solutions to resolve complex supply challenges and facilitate sourcing activities through managing relationships with Rio Tinto Procurement stakeholders.

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Management of the end-to-end sourcing process.
• Identify sourcing opportunities through spend analysis.
• Design, develop and manage tenders.
• Managing relationships with RTP category managers, key business unit customers and with the senior leaders of our supply base.
• Draft Recommendation to Awards for management approval.
• Working with integrity and ensuring a fully compliant environment

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Strong commercial acumen and previous experience in a similar role.
• Proven data driven decision making skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Previous experience in tender management and contract negotiation
• High level of proficiency in SAP and Excel, whilst knowledge and experience with Ariba is highly desirable.
• Strong interpersonal communication and organisational skills.
• A passion for continuous improvement and personal development
• Knowledge and experience in the mining sector managing complex business processes and/or a background working with a Big 4, contract negotiation and tenders would be highly regarded

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, you’re 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
• 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.

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 26 May 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date)