Senior Specialist – Program Management Office (PMO) – Procurement (Fixed Term)

Senior Specialist – Program Management Office (PMO) – Procurement (Fixed Term)

• Influence leadership level initiatives and deliver wide reaching impactful initiatives
• Work across a large cohort of global and regional strategic procurement teams to deliver value from standardisation and business improvement
• Continue developing your knowledge in procurement and commercial activities
• Ongoing training and development provided
• Flexible work environment, CBD locations, Perth
• 12 months fixed term engagement

About the role

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.

We are looking for a Senior Specialist – Procurement (Program Management Office) (PMO) to provide strategic analytical support, upskilling and co-ordination of procurement activities aimed at delivering value and business improvements.

This role has a key part to play in influencing the strategic direction of our regional and global procurement teams via the role’s interactions with it’s senior and extended leadership teams. It is also a role which advocates for the procurement function during their engagements with internal stakeholders within the Rio Tinto group to bring about meaningful change, simplification and improvements.  

This is a great opportunity for a strong analytically minded individual to bring their ‘sense of ownership’ mindset and commercial acumen to find the right data insights and collaborate with procurement & data specialists to translate it into efficiencies.   The drive to improve coupled with effective stakeholder engagement will be key to working collectively in a large network to deliver this value sustainably.   

Reporting to the Principal Advisor – Procurement, you will: 

• Work in a dynamic environment to build a high level of trust through open and transparent relationships
• Support senior leadership in influencing and embedding initiatives aimed at steering the cultural journey of a large and globally spread procurement cohort
• Support leadership in their regular meetings, cadences and utilisation of their resources
• Identify, assess and implement opportunities to standardise and find new simplified but effective ways of working and process improvements
• Work with stakeholders to define and document reporting requirements and assist in co-ordinating the process of development to delivery of the final deliverable fulfilling the role of a ‘trusted advisor’
• Lead a small team of analysts to maintain and improve our suite of procurement spend and metric reports
• Co-ordinate and conduct training for stakeholders to upskill the capability and consistently in work practices across the procurement cohort
• Act as a centralised reference point and key interface point in relation to the regional and global category teams.  These teams deliver end to end procurement services to Rio Tinto Iron Ore and the multiple product groups operating Rio Tinto’s assets globally
• Co-ordinate the work activities and coach other team members within the PMO team and providing the necessary training and development to deliver outcomes
• Collaborate with contract owners and Category Managers providing support by providing data and importantly insights.  Then leading initiatives aimed at channelling procurement spend to automated and contracted buying channels
• Liaising with functional stakeholders across Finance, Business Transformation, Product Groups and global procurement network to align methodologies for our annual targets and procurement priorities
• Provide support to deliver ad-hoc procurement related projects or initiatives
• Provide additional support to the Principal Advisor RTP PMO in facilitating leadership workshops and presentations

What you’ll bring

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

• A degree qualification with recent experience as an Analyst or Reporting Specialist, postgraduate qualifications or MBA highly desirable in technical or commercial disciplines
• A balanced view, strong proficiency and an aptitude which will see you enjoy presenting both your exceptional work and the work of the PMO team to stakeholders at all levels
• Strong influencing, strategic thinking, stakeholder engagement and communication capabilities
• Strong Excel technical skills
• Proven experience developing reporting dashboards using Power BI or similar is desirable but not essential

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

Centrally located in beautifully appointed offices in Central Park – Perth, CBD.  Everything at your doorstep and just a short walk to all transport.

Our world class Pilbara assets comprise of an integrated network of 17 mines, four independent port terminals, a 2,000 kilometre rail network and related infrastructure – all designed to respond rapidly to changes in demand.

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.

Applications close on: 4^th Oct 2024

 (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.