Procurement Business Partner – Gladstone Operations

Procurement Business Partner – Gladstone Operations

• Be part of a team that is safety driven and which values inclusion and diversity

• Join a leadership group committed to Rio Tinto’s core values of Care, Courage and Curiosity

• Work within a high performing dynamic environment

• Opportunity to lead the Procurement team supporting our Yarwun Alumina Refinery and Boyne Smelter Operations

• Based in Gladstone, with domestic relocation assistance provided

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs.

We are looking for an experienced Procurement Business Partner – Gladstone who can lead people and execute commercial strategies to deliver superior commercial outcomes for our business. In this role, you will be responsible for providing leadership for the procurement team supporting Rio Tinto’s Yarwun Alumina Refinery and Boyne Smelter Operations.

This role has a strong focus on procurement service delivery and stakeholder engagement with the respective site based operational leadership teams. The aim is to improve safety, control costs and generate continuous improvement initiatives intended to keep Rio Tinto at the leading edge of the resources industry. This is an exciting, permanent opportunity within a flexible workplace environment with the option to work a 9-day fortnight.

In this role, you will provide collaborative leadership to develop and maintain a team culture that consistently demonstrates our organisational values and seeks to identify and deliver value to our stakeholders. This role is a great opportunity to establish yourself as a key business partner across our Gladstone sites, manage positive relationships with key internal stakeholders and critical suppliers, and to exercise your commercial acumen to deliver mutually beneficial outcomes.

Reporting to the Senior Business Partner, Procurement and working in a challenging and exciting environment, you will:

• Provide day to day leadership of the Gladstone based procurement team and drive a high performing and collaborative culture that will support each team member to achieve their full potential. Direct reports: 7

• Support the management of relationships with site stakeholders across two critical Aluminium assets to ensure their needs are consistently met, and that they understand what is required to maximize value from procurement.

• Be an effective procurement leader responsible for strategy development and execution, overseeing commercial negotiations of your team and ensuring best practice contract management outcomes;

• Be responsible for building highly functioning and engaged internal relationships by deploying business partnering principles to improve customer centricity, whilst also partnering with external suppliers to develop mutually rewarding relationships, unlocking innovation and advancing ESG principles;

• Embed a holistic and robust approach to safety, security, risk in supply chain, change and project management across your assigned portfolio ensuring that all material risks are identified and appropriately managed;

• Lead a team of procurement and sourcing specialists, and be able to demonstrate effective people leadership skills to drive and enable a positive and engaging team culture;

• Ensure initiatives are implemented in accordance with Rio Tinto's strict governance requirements spanning contracts compliance, expiries and renewals, negotiations, variations, supplier performance management and contract implementation; and

• Continually seek to improve functional capabilities in order to deliver best total value outcomes for Rio Tinto and proactively look to increase the speed of delivery through optimised and technology enabled processes.

What you’ll bring

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

• A tertiary degree in Business, Law, Engineering, or related discipline;

• Ideally 10+ years of procurement experience with demonstrated prior people leadership accountabilities;

• Exceptional level of stakeholder engagement skills;

• Ability to create a vision, and present information and analysis to support complex procurement category and sub-category strategies;

• Demonstratable understanding of end to end procurement processes;

• Strong negotiation skills and demonstrated experience leading complex contract negotiations; and

• Proficiency in using MS Office suite, PowerBI and other technology enablers;

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

Where you’ll be working

Rio Tinto Global Procurement ensures resilient supply chains that deliver value to the Rio Tinto Group through the strategic sourcing and buying of goods and services for our operations. Playing a fundamental role, value is achieved through effective supplier partnerships, innovation, easy and standardised processes, e-technology, corporate social responsibility and increased commercial advantage.

Application Deadline: 29th June 2025 Sunday Australia WA time

(Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove advertised roles prior to this 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 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.

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