Category Specialist, Technology Infrastructure - Global Procurement

Category Specialist, Technology Infrastructure – Global Procurement

·                     Join our Global Procurement team

·                     Permanent position working Monday to Friday

·                     Brisbane CBD with flexible working from home arrangements

  About the role

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

We are looking for a Category Specialist, Technology Infrastructure who will be responsible for executing infrastructure category strategies, sourcing and contract implementation globally across Rio Tinto.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced technology procurement professional. You will enjoy working as part of the Global Procurement team, collaborating with a range of stakeholders to influence and manage a broad portfolio of work. You have a passion for process improvement and transformation and can speak the language of today’s technology landscape.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, Technology Infrastructure you will:

·         Help develop and execute technology category strategies for major areas of technology investment across our infrastructure categories including cloud, telecommunications, storage, end user computing, networks and devices

·         Research and update knowledge of relevant categories and sub-categories to identify opportunities for improvement within the category based on industry and market research, organisational priorities, supply chain risk and commercial opportunities.

·         Support the development of stakeholder engagement plans to help formalise effective and collaborative relationships with a broad and varied group of global business units including Information Services and Technology

·         Provide commercial leadership and guidance to the relevant stakeholder teams

·         Build and grow relationships with key suppliers to drive innovation and value through a formal Supplier Relationship Management process

·         Work with complex data sets and the data warehouse team to perform comprehensive data analysis, commercial modelling and produce meaning category and business insights.

·         Work closely with sourcing specialists, legal, finance and other business partners to support an efficient end to end source to contract experience for all stakeholders.

·         Support or lead (depending on the requirement) negotiation strategies and communication plans for supplier negotiations and meetings

·         Pro-actively work on initiatives to help contain contract-spend leakage and deliver contractual performance outcomes as required

·         Provide issue resolution for supplier service and quality issues

What you will bring

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

·         Tertiary qualifications in Procurement, Business, Economics or Technology

·         Significant experience in technology procurement with a focus on infrastructure and category management

·         Proven record of leading to drive successful commercial outcomes

·         Ability to formulate and present the analysis and business cases to support complex category and sub-category strategies

·         Understanding of end-to-end procurement processes including category led buying channels

·         Strong negotiation skills and demonstrated experience leading complex contract negotiations

·         Proven experience managing large scale global projects with the ability to influence senior stakeholders

·         Ability to work effectively and productively to support a strong team environment with an expected high degree of individual autonomy (and accountability)

·         Ability to establish and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders

·         Proficiency in using SAP, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint

What we offer

Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work; knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

·         A work environment where safety is always the number one priority

·         A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto

·         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 and 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 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 close on Monday 5 December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).