Manager Sourcing Hub

Manager Sourcing Hub

• A great opportunity to join Rio Tinto as a key member of our Global Indirect Procurement Team
• Be part of a dynamic and passionate global procurement team dedicated to delivering maximum commercial, social and operational value
• Permanent Full Time - Brisbane based opportunity

About the role

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

As our Manager Sourcing Hub, you will add value by leading with Rio Tinto’s sourcing methodology to deliver safe, efficient and effective best total value outcomes whilst also leading a technical team of subject matter experts. You will be joining an experienced Procurement team to deliver on an exciting opportunity to manage a Centre of Excellence for Sourcing.

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 Senior Manager Travel & Corporate Services, Global Procurement and working in a challenging and exciting environment within Strategic Sourcing, you will:

• Collaborate with global key stakeholders to:
  • complete procurement risk assessments
  • develop and execute sourcing strategies
  • develop and release tender packages
  • evaluate supplier proposals
  • develop and execute negotiation plans
  • prepare contractual documentation
  • Manage award approvals and contract execution process
• Form part of a global team supporting multiple and varied spend portfolios including Corporate Services, Energy & Explosives, Property & Facilities Management, Information Systems & Technology, Travel & Expenses

• Work closely with other Procurement team members, both globally and within regions, to align sourcing requirements and outcomes with business needs

What you’ll bring

This is a great opportunity for an experienced and established Procurement professional with excellent commercial acumen, strong lead negotiator skills, effective global stakeholder engagement with an understanding of change management. You are proactive, self-motivated and can demonstrate a solid and credible sourcing background leading large (up to US$1bn), complex global projects whilst leading a technical team of procurement experts.

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team
• Demonstrated knowledge of source-to-contract core Procurement process
• Experience in applying a risk-based management approach, with a strong safety focus
• Demonstrated tendering, negotiation and business case development expertise
• Ability to lead large complex negotiations and change discussions
• Demonstrated experience in contract drafting and interpretation
• Ability to communicate effectively and build relationships with global stakeholders at all levels.

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
• 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 & 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)
• Possible domestic relocation assistance

About Rio Tinto

Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls ‘progress’ begins witha 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 Tuesday 13^th December 2022 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this date).