Marine Business Partner – Pacific

Why explore

• An opportunity to develop your career within a global marine organisation.

• Futureproof our business through developing and expanding the strategic and tactical demands of the chartering teams, linking across all our global freight desks.

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for a Marine Business Partner (Pacific) to help shape the future success and alignment of Rio Tinto's business needs and the marine teams. This incorporates maximizing value across the supply chain between internal Product Groups (or business units) and Marine, supporting cross-desk chartering requirements, and analyzing complex tradeoff considerations for the overall end-to-end value chain.

Reporting to the General Manager, Chartering, and a dotted line to the General Manager Voyage Operations, you will:

• Be the primary contact for assigned business units to ensure alignment between business needs and cross-desk Marine activities, processes, and interfaces.

• Lead and represent chartering & voyage operations tactical activities (as part of developing the global freight portfolio strategies) through aspects of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP), Integrated Scheduling, Sites/Ports/terminals, and cross-desk optimization meetings.

• Partner with Global Portfolio Managers to support analysis of freight books, while also contributing to the growth of desk projects and business expansions.

• Develop an understanding of the overall commercial value drivers, sensitivities, and dependencies while also being visionary to drive continuous progress.

• Function as an advocate and educator, ensuring business units understand current freight capabilities, constraints, and available solutions.

• Increase value chain stakeholder engagement, including stakeholder interests, risks, and opportunities, and able to effectively progress these plans across teams.

• Coordinate material initiatives with Marine and internal stakeholders to improve freight efficiencies in the supply chain.

About you

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

• Relevant Degree qualifications.

• Strong strategic and commercial acumen; naturally, a big picture thinker who welcomes complexity and uncertainty yet executes and delivers independently with limited guidance.

• Curious, analytical mindset; can deliver meaningful insights.

• Ability to drive effective decision making through strong communication and stakeholder management skills (up to senior executive levels).

• Ability to shape Marine initiatives into clear proposals, including through the development of articulate and compelling presentations.

• Ideal candidate comes with 10+ years of experience in/across freight portfolio management, commodity marketing/trading, business strategy, project management (Freight trading/Chartering experience will be beneficial)

• Knowledge across shipping markets would be highly beneficial.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority 

• A full-time position working directly for Rio Tinto 

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

• Comprehensive medical benefits, including health insurance for employees and immediate family 

• Attractive share ownership plan 

• Company provided insurance cover 

• Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions 

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto’s assets, hubs, and offices globally, our Commercial group works hand-in-hand with our product groups to ensure both the amount and types of products we produce meet our customers’ needs, and manage the trade-off between volumes, quality, cost, and capital expenditure.

Application Deadline: 25 June 2025 (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.”

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 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 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.

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