Specialist Product Placement (12 months fixed term)

Specialist, Product Placement (12 Months Contract)

Why explore

• Work on Rio Tinto’s top priorities and deliver lasting sustainable impact
• Gain exposure across our global commercial business
• 12 months secondment/fixed term based in Brisbane, QLD

About the role

The Bulk Marketing Portfolio Strategy team is responsible for:

• Working with RTIO studies to shape our product strategy and optimize our value chain end to end, from pit to customers.
• Working with the Sales, Marketing and S&OP teams to maximize value of our products, in light of changing market dynamics and production variability.
• Product pricing and placement for internal valuation purposes.
• Engaging with customers and our Technical Marketing teams to gather information and insights relating to customers operating conditions and purchasing behaviors.

The Specialist, Product Placement, assists with value in use analysis to provide timely and accurate guidance on placement and relative value of different products to stakeholders within Commercial and RTIO. This role is also responsible for improving our understanding of customers technical requirements and operating parameters and improving our value in use models.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Strategy & Best Practice, you will be responsible for:

• Product Value Analysis: Assessment of the value in use of our and competitors products to influence resource development and E2E value chain optimization projects.
• Development of our Value in Use models: Help shape the development pipeline and execute projects that improve our value in use models and build additional capabilities.
• Supporting our Assets: Work with RTIO, Simandou and IOC teams to support product strategy development, resource optimization projects and evaluation of investment opportunities.
• Collaborating across Commercial: Work closely with the Iron Ore Sales and Marketing, Market Analysis, Simandou Commercial, Steel Decarbonization teams and other stakeholders within Commercial, to provide pricing and placement insights to strategic projects.
• Liaising with Technical Marketing: Work with Technical Marketing teams in regional offices to collect customer intelligence, understand purchasing preferences and operating conditions that can be used to improve our understanding of customers value in use of different iron ore products.
• Participating in Technical engagements: Building stronger relationships with customers, providing technical knowledge and data to improve the use of our products, while collecting data and insights.

About you

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

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in a technical discipline including metallurgical/chemical/process/mining engineering, geology/metallurgy/chemistry/other geoscience or mathematics/physics.
• Comprehensive understanding of pricing in the low/mid grade and high grade iron ore markets.
• Experience in product value assessment in the iron ore industry.
• Experience with customer engagements and working directly with steel mills on the use of iron ore products.
• Coding in Python preferred.

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

About Rio Tinto

Rio 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 almost 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 and meet opportunities.

Every Voice Matters

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQIA+ 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.

Application Deadline: 19 June 2024 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing 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.”