Specialist, Sourcing

Sourcing Specialist

• Genuine career development opportunities with a global leader
• Fantastic remuneration and benefits
• Permanent fulltime | Perth based | 5:2 roster

About the role

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

We are seeking an inquiring and meticulous Sourcing Specialist to join Rio Tinto’s Procurement Team.

Reporting to the Sourcing Team Lead you will be responsible for creating plans and solutions to resolve complex supply challenges and facilitate sourcing activities through managing relationships with Rio Tinto Procurement and Business Unit stakeholders

Key responsibilities of the role include:

• Management of the end-to-end sourcing process.
• Identify sourcing opportunities through spend analysis.
• Design, develop and manage tenders
• Supplier Identification, Qualification, Assessment.
• Draft business cases for management approval.
• Working with integrity and ensuring a fully compliant environment

What you’ll bring

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Strong commercial acumen and previous experience in a similar role.
• Proven data driven decision making skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Previous experience in tender management and contract negotiation
• High level of proficiency in SAP and Excel, whilst knowledge and experience with Ariba is highly desirable.
• Strong interpersonal communication and organisational skills.
• A passion for continuous improvement and personal development
• Knowledge and experience in the mining sector managing complex business processes and/or a background working with the Big 4 contract negotiation and tenders would be highly regarded

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
• Get ahead financially and enjoy housing subsidy benefits
• 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 and salary packaging options
• Career development and 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)

Where you will be working 

This role will be based in Central Park – Perth’s CBD hub. Rio Tinto Procurement provides supply chain services that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing of goods and services for all operations and businesses. Value is enabled through close collaboration with business unit stakeholders to gain a deep understanding of requirements, and then delivered through uniformed processes, e-technology, increased corporate social responsibility and measurable value delivery for the Rio Tinto Group. 

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 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.