Senior Adviser, Portfolio and Metal Management

• A unique opportunity to shape Rio Tinto's sales portfolios, with a focus on promoting a value over volume approach.

• Key role in a world-renowned organization

• Permanent role – Based in Frankfurt, Germany

We’re Finding Better Ways™ to provide materials the world needs, now and in the future. Our values – care, courage and curiosity – guide how we work and how we treat each other

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Adviser to provide decision-making support for the Commercial Atlantic Portfolio team. Reporting to the Senior Manager Portfolio Metal Atlantic and S&OP and collaborating with different operating sites, logistics, procurement, finance and other support functions, you will lead the commercial strategy for the sales and marketing of aluminium products.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Optimize Portfolio Strategy, Pricing & Execution

• Optimize the short‑ to mid‑term ISAL billet, P1020/high purity from Canada NZAS, ensuring alignment between commercial strategy, market conditions, and operational capabilities.

• Define recommended sell volumes, product mix, purity, and allocation to maximize portfolio value.

• Recommend buy/sell price levels based on market dynamics, and margin optimization in alignment with the Senior Manager Portfolio Metal Atlantic.

• Monitor and optimize portfolio value to capture arbitrage opportunities including: geographic arbitrage, time arbitrage, product arbitrage, physical vs. financial arbitrage, and logistics arbitrage.

• Analyze and clearly communicate profitability drivers, risks, and trade‑offs to internal stakeholders.

• Oversee contract tracking, amendments, and cancellations, and support the sales team on execution discipline and contract setup.

2. Position the Portfolio Across Supply Chain

• Monitor portfolio positions, production availability, and value‑added product flows, adjusting positioning as needed to optimize outcomes.

• Support commercial growth and customer development in the region

• Strengthen coordination between customers and operations

• Improve responsiveness and decision‑making as European volumes and complexity increases

• Provide commercial and analytical support on market conditions, geopolitical risks, and negotiations.

• Monitor book performance vs. Plan.

3. Production, Inventory and Execution Alignment through S&OE and S&OP

• Manage and maintain detailed metal availability, allocation, and positioning across plants, products, and customers both for the 0-3 month and 3–18-month time horizon.

• Track finished goods inventory and vessel shipments to ensure execution aligns with production and sales plans.

• Support daily and weekly execution by ensuring metal quality, chemistry, and product specifications are reflected correctly in shipments and allocations.

• Monitor changes to production plans, shutdowns, and constraints, and assess impacts on customer commitments and logistics flows.

What you’ll bring

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

• University degree, preferably in commerce, finance or engineering

• A master’s degree or MBA will be an asset

• Experience working with large datasets

• Effective communication skills to interact with all levels of the organization

• Self-driven, results-oriented, motivated, and proactive

• Team player with sound values and integrity

• Strong analytical skills and critical thinking

• English (written and spoken), Icelandic and/or German is an asset

What we offer

Be recognized for your contribution, thinking and hard work, and go home knowing you’ve helped the world progress.

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

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

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

• Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs, pension and savings plans

• Attractive share ownership plan

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

Where you’ll be working 

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell), Global Procurement (Buy), and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy, sell and move the materials the world needs, by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

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.

Respect and Inclusion

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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