Specialist Procurement Rail

24 hours ago


Sydney, Australia Rio Tinto Full time

**Specialist Procurement - Rail**
- RTIO Rail Division runs the most utilised heavy haul railway in the world.
- Join a high performing, collaborative, and fun team that achieves results and drive to make a difference in the communities we operate in.
- Fixed term 12-month contract | Perth based Monday to Friday
- Ad-hoc site travel

**About the role**

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

We are currently looking for a **Specialist Procurement - Rail** to work closely with our internal and external stakeholders across our Rail category, supporting Rolling Stock Maintenance strategy and operations.

Contributing to the achievement of Rio Tinto’s business priorities, duties include supporting management of flagship Rail contracts, support creation of category strategies, execution of end-to-end sourcing processes, and fostering relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.

This role is a great opportunity for someone with a partnership mindset and an appetite to add value by collaborating closely with stakeholders to optimise the path forward in terms of achieving Rio Tinto’s rolling stock strategic objectives.

You will join a team of procurement professionals that drive strong engagement between their specific sites, Procurement lead teams and Procurement strategy owners. The role involves engaging site leadership regularly, facilitating key supplier relationship activities & delivering site specific rail procurement initiatives.

Reporting to the Senior Specialist Rail you will:

- Drive ‘safety’ into the contract and procurement processes
- Work collaboratively with the business and with stakeholders to identify opportunities and to develop and implement strategies that support the business
- Establish strong supplier relationships that are aligned with the business goals and deliver on its priorities
- Manage and influence supplier performance and work with both suppliers and internal stakeholders to identify opportunities to deliver value to the business
- Support the Asset and category teams to deliver maximum value to the Asset
- Manage key suppliers’ performance and reinforce KPI’s as necessary
- Identify and monitor procurement initiatives and support the mitigation of any impact to the relevant rail strategies
- Manage procurement supply chains and support systems including outline agreements
- Solve for site specific requirements while balancing the contribution to broader strategies and leverage opportunities; and
- Drive stakeholder compliance in the procurement process
- Travel to Rio Tinto Iron Ore sites as required to engage with internal stakeholders and suppliers

**What you’ll bring**

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

- Minimum Bachelor’s degree/post graduate qualification in Commerce, Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain or equivalent
- Demonstrated procurement/sourcing/contract management experience
- Partnering mindset and a passion to engage multiple stakeholders, internally and externally
- Excellent communication skills to influence, engage and build strong rapport with key stakeholders
- Effective time management skills, the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities
- Creative problem solving skills with strong strategic outlook and analytical capabilities; and,
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to influence and collaborate cross functionally

**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
- 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 acro



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