Specialist, FE

Specialist Fixed Equipment

• Join a successful global team managing annual spends in excess $1b
• We offer competitive compensation, paid parental leave entitlements and flexible work arrangements.
• Permanent fulltime | Perth based | 5:2 roster

About the role

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

An integral part of the Procurement team this role reports to the Principal Advisor - Global Fixed Equipment and is responsible for Fixed Equipment procurement from source to contract in addition to ongoing contract management activities and continuous improvement programs.   

 The key expectations for the role include:

• Collating and analysing market intelligence on key product lines and Original Equipment Manufacturers.
• Managing the development and implementation of comprehensive regional and/or global category management strategies
• Undertaking sourcing activities including the development, negotiation and execution/implementation of regional/global contracts.
• Maintaining robust and productive relationships with key internal stakeholders and managing cross-functional working groups to ensure that needs and requirements are fully understood.
• Extracting value from existing fixed equipment contractual/supplier relationships
• Undertaking supplier relationship management activities with preferred suppliers. 

What you’ll bring

The successful candidate will demonstrate:

• Strong commercial acumen and category management experience. Experience with electrical and power contracts and suppliers will be highly regarded
• Significant contract drafting and negotiation experience (for high value/complex contracts).
• Extremely strong communication (written and verbal) and interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence and manage potential conflict in a constructive and effective manner.
• Proven track record of achieving outcomes through negotiation, influencing and collaboration.
• Factual, data-driven decision making.
• Strong project management, problem solving and analytical skills
• Effective time management skills, the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities.

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.

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