Procurement Category Specialist – Resource and Mining Services

Procurement Category Specialist – Resource and Mining Services

• Apply your category management knowledge and stakeholder engagement skills

• Management of a strategic portfolio

• Challenging and dynamic position

• Flexible work environment and CBD location – Perth

About the role

The Resource and Mining Services have an exciting opportunity to join the team as a Category Specialist. We are looking for a highly driven and strategically astute individual, who has proven ability to deliver value within the Drilling and Laboratory Categories via innovative procurement solutions.

Reporting to the Manager Resource and Mining Services, you will:

• Demonstrate the application of Rio Tinto’s values of Courage, Care and Curiosity.

• Develop and deliver category strategies aligned with Rio Tinto business objectives.

• Establish long term, sustainable relationships with the key suppliers, based on innovation, sustainability, and mutual value creation.

• Create and maintain credible and trusting relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure alignment of procurement effort with business needs and opportunities.

• Deliver value through the day-to-day category management & SRM activities in support of the key supplier partnership and contribute to the market engagement and its implementation.

• Apply an effective negotiation process to deliver beneficial contractual and commercial outcomes for Rio Tinto.

• Have a willingness to challenge the status quo and find creative ways to solve problems with safe outcomes.

• Support the business with the identification and mitigation of the key risks.

About you

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

• Minimum of 3 – 5 years’ experience in strategic procurement, category management and supplier relationship management.

• An ability to influence without direct line authority and a continuous improvement mindset.

• Proven ability to proactively manage stakeholders and build strong relationships.

• Effective time management skills, the ability to balance multiple and competing priorities.

• Strong commercial acumen, interpersonal skills and negotiation ability.

• Previous experience in mining is highly desirable.

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: 30th April 2025 COD

(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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