Procurement Business Partner – Regional Goods & Services, Bundoora & RT Mongolia

Procurement Business Partner – Regional Goods & Services, Bundoora & RT Mongolia

• Explore an exciting role with a global mining and metals company

• Scope covering East Australia, New Zealand, and Mongolia

• Leadership opportunity

• Based in Brisbane, Queensland

Job Description

We are looking for an experienced Business Partner – Regional Goods & Services, Bundoora & RT Mongolia who can drive change and execute commercial strategies to deliver superior outcomes to our business. 

In your role, you will be responsible for providing leadership for the procurement team supporting Rio Tinto’s Pacific Operations Regional Goods & Services requirements.  This role has a focus on a range of labour & MRO related sub-categories including maintenance services for fixed plant shutdowns, mobile equipment maintenance and engineering services. The aim is to improve safety, control costs and generate continuous improvement initiatives intended to keep Rio Tinto at the leading edge of the resources industry.  You will also be responsible for providing leadership to the business partner procurement teams who support Rio Tinto functional locations in Bundoora, Melbourne and RT Mongolia.  You will provide collaborative leadership to develop and maintain a team culture that consistently demonstrates our organisational values and seeks to identify and deliver value to our stakeholders.  

This role is a great opportunity to establish and manage positive relationships with key internal stakeholders and critical suppliers, and to exercise your commercial skills to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes. The key focus of this role is to: 

Reporting to the Senior Business Partner, Procurement and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will be:

• Provide day to day leadership to the Regional Goods & Services, Bundoora and RT Mongolia teams and drive a high performing and collaborative culture that will support each team member to achieve their full potential.

• Support the management of relationships with site stakeholders across Pacific Operations and at Bundoora and Mongolia to ensure their needs are consistently met, and that they understand what is required to maximize value from procurement.

• Collaborate with site/location leadership to define, build, and improve procurement strategy and delivery that focus on both growth and closure plans for the assets.

• An effective category manager, accountable for the end-to-end management of the Labour & MRO categories, and directly responsible for strategy development, business intelligence and relationship management;

• Responsible for building highly functioning and engaged internal relationships by deploying business partnering principles to improve customer centricity, whilst also partnering with external suppliers to develop mutually rewarding relationships, unlocking innovation and advancing ESG principles;

• Embedding a holistic and robust approach to safety, security, risk, change and project management across your assigned portfolio ensuring that all material risks are identified and managed;

• Leading a team of specialists, and be able to demonstrate effective people leadership skills to drive and enable a positive and engaging team culture;

• Ensuring initiatives are implemented in accordance with Rio Tinto's governance requirements. This includes contract governance, expiries and renewals, negotiations, variations, and deviations, performance management and contract implementation;

• Continually improving functional capabilities in order to deliver best total value outcomes for Rio Tinto. This includes staying current on best practices (procurement, portfolio and category) and proactively looking to increase the velocity of delivery through optimised and technology enabled processes while strengthening controls.

What you will bring

• A tertiary degree in either business or commercial discipline would be beneficial;

• A solid background in category management or as a business partner;

• Exceptional level of stakeholder engagement skills;

• Ability to create a vision, and present information and analysis 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;

• Proficiency in using Excel, Word, PowerPoint and, ideally, PowerBI

What we offer

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

• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements

• 18 weeks of gender-neutral and equal paid parental leave, with continued superannuation contributions whilst employees are on unpaid or half paid parental leave

• 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); and

• Local relocation packages offered for Australian residents only

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.

Application Deadline: 28th Feb 2025 (Midnight)

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

Please note, in order to be successfully considered for this role you must complete all pre-screening questions.

Rio Tinto does not accept unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles from recruiters or employment agencies. Rio Tinto will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles. Rio Tinto reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited CVs or candidate profiles, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Rio Tinto.

About Rio TintoRio Tinto is a leading global mining and materials company. We operate in 35 countries where we produce iron ore, copper, aluminium, critical minerals, and other materials needed for the global energy transition and for people, communities, and nations to thrive.We have been mining for 150 years and operate with knowledge built up across generations and continents. Our purpose is finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs – striving for innovation and continuous improvement to produce materials with low emissions and to the right environmental, social and governance standards. But we can’t do it on our own, so we’re focused on creating partnerships to solve problems, create win-win situations and meet opportunities.

Every Voice MattersAt 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.