- Exposure to a diverse range of stakeholders working closely to build constructive relationships
- Playing a role in supporting a procurement policy and process improvement across Rio Tinto
- Supporting assurance efforts and performance reporting
- Full-time permanent position | Location Perth
About The Role
All progress begins with pioneers. At Rio Tinto it begins with you.
We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Planning / PMO Specialist to develop and maintain a comprehensive master plan across all activities within the Policy, Process and Performance team (PPP). This role will ensure alignment across procurement procedures, policy compliance, sustainability reporting, and assurance processes, while also facilitating seamless collaboration between other Global Procurement teams as part of the broader portfolio and management practices.
In this role, you will act as a central point of coordination, supporting process improvement initiatives, managing key dates and reporting cycles, and assisting leadership with resource management and workload balancing. Your ability to organise, communicate, and drive efficiency will be essential to the success of procurement process transformation efforts.
Develop & Maintain a Comprehensive Master Plan
- Support the creation of a procurement procedural continuous improvement plan, aligned with a 3 year content improvement strategy.
- Track and manage policy expirations and auditable dates to ensure compliance.
- Maintain sustainability reporting timelines and key submission dates.
- Oversee 1st and 2nd Line of Defence (1LOD/2LOD) assurance timelines to support risk and compliance functions.
- Monitor all external and internal milestones relating to team activities.
Streamline Collaboration & Communication Across Global Procurement teams
- Participate in centralised portfolio management practices as the PPP Planning Lead to support information sharing and planning alignment.
- Facilitate information sharing and process improvement input across other procurement teams.
Provide Coordination & Support Across PPP Streams
- Assist with meeting coordination, including scheduling, agenda preparation, and documenting key decisions and actions.
- Provide logistical and administrative support for major initiatives, including
- Global Procurement Content Improvement Strategy.
- Sustainability Reporting.
- 2LOD/Risk & Assurance Coordination.
- Procurement Portal content translation.
- Medium- to Long-Term S4HANA Implementation.
Support Managers with Resource Management & Workload Balancing
- Assist leadership in workload distribution across teams to optimise efficiency.
- Identify and address capacity constraints, ensuring teams are resourced effectively.
- Provide administrative and analytical support to help managers prioritise key initiatives.
What You’ll Bring
To be successfully considered for this role, you will ideally have
- Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple timelines and deadlines.
- Strong experience in project coordination, PMO, and governance support.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work across teams.
- Proficiency in project management methodologies, software and tools.
- Ability to synthesise complex information and provide clear updates to stakeholders.
- Knowledge of procurement policy, risk assurance, and/or sustainability reporting is a plus.
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
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 16th 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.
