Specialist Procurement Labour & Maintenance

 Specialist Procurement – Labour and Maintenance

• Apply your category management knowledge and strategic sourcing skills
• Permanent opportunity with Rio Tinto
• Flexible work environment and CBD location - Perth

About the role

Our Labour and Maintenance (L&M) team is currently seeking a Category Specialist based in Perth CBD. As part of the broader L&M team, you will be responsible for gaining a clear understanding of our stakeholders needs whilst forming excellent partnerships with our key suppliers which will ultimately underpin and drive excellence across the portfolio. 

We are looking for a highly driven and commercially astute individual, who has a desire to deliver value within the portfolio, minimise risk for Rio Tinto and develop innovative solutions.

It is an excellent opportunity to join a high performing, collaborative team and showcase your abilities to help us achieve our vision of “driving procurement excellence through an engaged and empowered team”.

About the role:

• Demonstrate strong teamwork, with a focus on contributing to a respectful and empowering culture whilst delivering excellence
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and cross-functional working groups to deliver against L&M’s strategic priorities
• Establish long term, sustainable relationships with key suppliers, based on innovation, sustainability, and mutual value creation
• Develop and drive category strategy to implement and achieve effective sourcing strategy, category management and supplier relationship management outcomes

About you:

• Strong team player mindset with the desire to positively contribute to an engaged and progressive culture
• Category management experience with proven abilities to develop, negotiate and implement commercial strategies
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to constructively influence others
• Effective time management skills and the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities

Where you will be working

Rio Tinto Procurement provides supply chain services that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing and buying of goods and services for all operations and businesses. Playing a fundamental role, value is achieved through uniformed processes, e-technology, increased corporate social responsibility and measurable savings for the Group.

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 culture to support flexible working options
• 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

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 for this role will close on September 14^th 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier. Applicants must be located in Western Australia or be prepared to relocated to Western Australia for this opportunities.