Senior Specialist, Fixed Equipment (Global Procurement)

Rio Tinto; Perth; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working from home options

Competitive base salary with annual/in

Biomedical benefits including private/

Share ownership plan

Company provided insurance

Salary sacrifice & packaging options

Career development & education support

Family-friendly health and medicalWell

Leave for all life's reasons

Employee discounts

Job summary

Rio Tinto Global Procurement – Fixed Equipment is seeking a Senior Specialist to establish and manage the operational foundations that support strategic supplier relationships across the global Fixed Equipment portfolio. This role reports to the Capital Procurement Manager and focuses on governance, supplier performance and value delivery.

Based in Perth, Australia, you will build trusted relationships across projects and operations, translate supplier engagement into practical actions, and

Qualifications

• Experience in procurement, category management and supplier management.
• Strong commercial acumen and stakeholder management.
• Ability to build trusted relationships across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own strategic supplier governance for Fixed Equipment suppliers.
• Lead commercial performance across strategic supplier relationships, including OA governance, supplier agreements and pricing frameworks.
• Identify opportunities to improve supplier performance, manage risk and maximise value outcomes.
• Act as the primary interface between Account Management, Category Management and key business stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment between supplier activities, operational priorities and strategic objectives.
• Contribute to supplier account strategies, global framework strategies and supplier strategies.
• Support supplier positioning, major project engagement and strategic sourcing initiatives.

Skills

Procurement experience

Category management

Supplier management

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder management

Influencing capability

Relationship building

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Analytical capability

Job description

Senior Specialist, Fixed Equipment (Global Procurement)

Senior Specialist, Fixed Equipment (Global Procurement)

• Influence Across Rio Tinto's Fixed Equipment Portfolio
• Career visibility and stakeholder exposure
• Based in Perth, Australia

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has become available for an experienced procurement professional to join Rio Tinto's Global Procurement - Fixed Equipment.

Reporting to the Capital Procurement Manager - Fixed Equipment, this role is responsible for establishing and managing the operational foundations that support Rio Tinto's strategic supplier relationships across the global Fixed Equipment portfolio. The successful candidate will drive consistency across supplier governance, stakeholder engagement, contract management, supplier performance and value delivery.

This role requires an individual who can build trusted relationships across a broad stakeholder network, connect activity across projects and operations, and translate supplier engagement into practical actions that improve supplier performance, strengthen governance and support strategic decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Own strategic supplier governance, performance and operational management for strategic Fixed Equipment suppliers.
• Lead commercial performance across strategic supplier relationships, including OA governance, supplier agreements and pricing frameworks.
• Identify and deliver opportunities that improve supplier performance, manage risk and maximise value outcomes.
• Act as the primary interface between Account Management, Category Management and key business stakeholders.
• Ensure alignment between supplier activities, operational priorities and strategic objectives.
• Contribute to supplier account strategies, global framework strategies and supplier strategies.
• Support supplier positioning, major project engagement and strategic sourcing initiatives.

What You'll Bring

• Experience in procurement, category management and supplier management.
• Strong commercial acumen, stakeholder management and influencing capability.
• Ability to build trusted relationships and drive outcomes across complex, cross-functional environments.
• Experience managing supplier performance, commercial arrangements and value delivery initiatives.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving and analytical capability.
• Ability to balance long‑term objectives with operational priorities and deliver results through others.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience working with strategic suppliers, OEMs or complex supply chains is highly desirable.

Why This Role Matters

This role sits at the intersection of Global Procurement, strategic suppliers and major projects. Through deep supplier relationships, market expertise and commercial insight, the role helps project teams access opportunities that may not otherwise be visible, enabling better procurement, commercial and delivery outcomes across Rio Tinto's portfolio.

The successful candidate will leverage Rio Tinto's scale, strategic supplier partnerships and portfolio demand to influence key project and commercial decisions, strengthen competitiveness and create value across some of Rio Tinto's most significant capital investments.

What we offer

• A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
• Flexible working from home arrangements as per operational requirements
• 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);

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.

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.

Respect and Inclusion

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, women, the LGBTQ+ 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.