Manager Iron Ore Technical Marketing

Manager, Iron Ore Technical Marketing

• Key role: Drive iron ore technical marketing efforts for Rio Tinto Iron Ore products to maximise Rio Tinto iron ore products value, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders.

• Opportunity: Gain experience and support iron ore strategy initiatives, technical marketing and customer engagement

• Teamwork: Work closely with our global technical marketing, commercial and Pilbara operation, steel decarbonisation teams

• Location: Shanghai  

About the role

We are looking for a Manager, Technical Marketing Manager, Iron Ore.  In this role, you will provide valuable insights into product value, market and technical context and trend, customer technical requirements, and market positioning. You will also take charge of technical marketing activities for customers throughout China, even Asia. As a member of our global technical marketing, your role is crucial in providing business and industry context for Rio Tinto iron ore product strategy, pricing, operations, sales and market analysis teams. You will drive Rio Tinto technical initiatives through partnering with key steel customers jointly to identify and develop new technical solutions.  

This role is a great opportunity for a strong engineering and scientific professional with passion for driving technical excellence in steel industry. This role is based in Shanghai. Reporting to the Senior Manager – Technical Marketing and R&D Iron Ore, you will be:

• Manage Technical Marketing team to provide the support to Rio Tinto iron ore product strategy and marketing initiatives and drive implementations.

• Managing Customer Technical Engagement: cultivate partnerships and engage with customers across China, even Asia steel mills to provide the best technical service to customers

• Collaboration: Working closely with the technical marketing team to efficiently and effectively provide timely technical advice to iron ore sales and operations

• Sales Optimisation: Collaborate with commercial teams to maximise sales price based on value in use (VIU) work, market context and customer’s needs  

• Market Analysis: Examine Rio Tinto iron ore products and their dynamics relative to competitors’ products within the evolving market and industry. 

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.

• Minimum 10 years of industry experience, with a combined engineering and operational experience in iron ore or steel industry.

• Strong knowledge of Chinese iron and steel industry, and policy

• Strong knowledge of ironmaking and steelmaking technologies and operations

• Academic or engineering research experience.

• Strong command of English language, verbal and written

• Team player/collaborative/one team

• Can do/proactive attitude

• Willing to travel extensively

It will also be beneficial if you have:

• PhD in a field related to iron making, steel making or iron ore processing/mining, carbon and energy economics.

• MBA, Masters in Commerce or Economics.

What we offer

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

• Be recognized for your contribution – our thinking and your hard work and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress

• A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto  

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

• Comprehensive medical benefits including health insurance for employees

• Attractive share ownership plan  

• 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)

Where you will be working

You will be based in our office in Shanghai. 

Since Rio Tinto established its first office in Beijing almost 40 years ago with just three people, the Group has built partnerships with China that span supply, innovation, knowledge transfer, culture and procurement. It's a relationship that has been transformative for Rio Tinto and which continues to make a significant contribution to China’s growth story.

The company’s history in China stretches back over a century, when Rio Tinto made the first borates sales to the country. Since 1973 when Rio Tinto was one of the first foreign companies to export iron ore to China, it has shipped over 2.5 billion tonnes of the commodity, more than any other mining company. This extraordinary volume has been driven in large part by the pioneering joint ventures and partnerships that the Group has forged in recent decades.

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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