Senior Manager, Mobile Equipment
- Provide overall strategic direction, vision and leadership to ensure that the critical global Mobile Equipment category, meets and delivers the existing and future global business requirements
- Be a fully connected and trusted advisor to global Senior and Executive Management on Mobile Equipment
- Permanent role based in Perth
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto, it begins with you.
Rio Tinto has recently announced an ambitious strategy to grow our business and decarbonise. From sourcing mining solutions of the future, to creating businesses with host communities, to building new supply chains around our greenfield assets, the importance of Procurement in Rio Tinto's success has never been greater.
We currently have a unique, high profile and strategic position for an individual who possesses significant mobile mining equipment background experience with strong commercial acumen, is a thought leader with good procurement experience and has solid stakeholder relationship skills (internal including executive level and external supplier).
Reporting to the Global General Manager, Mining Equipment, you will:
- Lead the global Mobile Equipment Procurement team and ensure that all global and regional category/sourcing activities align with business priorities and requirements
- Have direct oversight of the Mobile Equipment Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) program. Ensure it is fully aligned to achieving Rio Tinto's short to long term objectives (value and safety)
- Undertake and manage the negotiation of high-value and complex global Mobile Equipment supplier contracts
- Build strong and productive Senior Management stakeholder relationships with global product groups, business units, Diesel Transition Office (DTO), major projects and operations; in order to understand their unique requirements and ensure that the global Mobile Equipment Procurement strategy and team is aligned on delivering against these requirements
- Be fully informed on the global Mobile Equipment market from an innovation, technology, automation and continuous improvement perspective
To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:
- Proven technical understanding of Mobile Equipment; operational demands, maintenance challenges, supply chain, OEM suppliers etc
- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to drive change
- A proven track record of achieving successful outcomes through negotiation, influencing and collaboration
- A strong track record of building robust, collaborative and productive relationships with key Senior Management stakeholders
- Excellent communication (verbal and written) and interpersonal skills (site personnel to 'C' suite)
- Exemplary team management and leadership skills
- Degree qualified in an Engineering, Business or Commercial discipline
Be recognised for your contribution, your thinking and your hard work, and go home knowing you've helped the world progress.
- A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
- A permanent position working directly for Rio Tinto
- 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)
- Possible domestic relocation assistance
Every idea, every innovation, every little thing the world calls 'progress' begins with
a first step, and someone willing to take it: explorers, inventors, entrepreneurs. Pioneers.
For nearly 150 years, Rio Tinto has been a company of pioneers - generations of people spanning the globe, all with the grit and vision to produce materials essential to human progress.
Our iron ore has shaped skylines from Shanghai to Sydney. Our aluminium - the world's first to be certified “responsible” - helps planes fly and makes cars lighter. Our copper helps wind turbines power cities and our boron helps feed the world, and explore the universe.
Our diamonds help us celebrate the best parts of life.
Every Voice Matters
At Rio Tinto, we want you to be you. We want everyone, everywhere, to feel their voice is heard and respected and we're committed to fostering a culture where individual differences-whatever they may be-are appreciated and valued. It's what makes us safer, more productive, improves our decision-making, and helps us to create better relationships with our communities.
At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, the LGBTI+ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.
Apply today if you want to work with the latest technology and innovation, in an environment where we support you to drive positive change.
Applications for this role will close on 7th December 2022 however we do reserve the right to close the role earlier.
This role is for applicants residing in or willing to permanently relocate to Western Australia