Specialist HME (Procurement)

Procurement Professional – Specialist HME

• Lead commercial category management role in a Global Procurement team    

• Previous experience with Mining Equipment, Procurement or Law

• Role based in Perth, Australia, with flexible work arrangements

About the role

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

We are looking for applicants to join our Global Procurement Heavy Mining Equipment (HME) Team in a Specialist HME role to be based in our Perth office. 

The key role will lead the commercial relationship with our Key Productivity Partner (KPP) Hitachi Construction Machinery, together with our strategic partnerships with XCMG and a range of suppliers for HME attachments. This role is a great opportunity for someone with a partnership mindset, strong stakeholder relationship skills and looking to gain exposure to the Global Mobile Equipment team. The role is complex in that it needs to support outcomes for both RTIO business priorities and global strategic initiatives, whilst continuing to deliver on fundamental transactional elements. This includes developing and maintaining strong relationships with Business Units and Suppliers to oversee the supply chain and contract management of Rio Tinto’s contracts for HME to ensure supply security and contract compliance.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, HME - Procurement, some of the duties you will perform are:

• Develop and maintain strong, robust and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

• Manage cross-functional working groups to ensure business needs are fully understood and adopted as part of the HME category strategies

• Follow the Rio Tinto Procurement category management cycle with specific emphasis on contract drafting, contract implementation and category management

• Lead supplier relationship management (SRM) activities with preferred suppliers in order to ensure; contractual requirements are being met, promote innovation, KPI performance review, supply chain management

• Develop and implement category strategies for emerging categories

• Generates domain knowledge and performs analysis across key value drivers to provide actionable insights

What you’ll bring

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

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce, law or a relevant mining related degree, with experience in mining and/or heavy mining equipment and/or technical expertise in the category

• Professional, succinct, strong and clear verbal and written communication skills with both internal and external stakeholders

• Strong interpersonal skills including leading workshops and the ability to influence and manage potential conflict and negotiate in a constructive and effective manner with proactive skills to challenge the status-quo and possess strong commercial intuition

• Proven track record of achieving outcomes through high value / complex negotiation, influencing and collaboration through a strong ability to build robust and productive relationships with key internal and external stakeholders

• Strong ability to project and time manage, problem solve, critically analyse and 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

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto

• A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program

• Attractive share ownership plan

• Company provided insurance cover

• Comprehensive medical benefits including subsidised private health insurance for you and your family

• 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

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: 11th April 2025 COD

(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.