Specialist Procurement - Maintenance, Repairs, Operations (MRO) Consumables

- Be part of the next exciting evolution of MRO
- Accountable for end-to-end category management and portfolio optimization
- Permanent role based in Perth

We are looking for a Specialist MRO within the MRO (Regional Goods & Services) team within Rio Tinto Procurement. MRO portfolio spans industrial supplies, electrical, plumbing and HVAC, hydraulics, industrial gases, drilling consumables and PPE, supplied through integrated supply partners, OEMs, distributors, and local and Indigenous suppliers.

This role is critical to delivering a stronger, sharper and simpler approach to MRO category management. Beyond your sub-category, you will understand the portfolio as a whole: what we buy, how materials flow from supplier to site, and the market forces that shape cost and availability. Your work will keep strategies and agreements practical and operationally relevant.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, MRO (Goods and Services), your key responsibilities will include:

- Developing data-driven fact bases for your sub-category, including spend by product group, site and buying channel, contract coverage, demand patterns and supplier insights, and contributing to the wider portfolio view.
- Monitoring market trends and external influences, such as commodity and input costs, freight, FX and supply disruption, and translating them into practical category actions.
- Managing end-to-end sourcing events, from stakeholder briefings and tender evaluation through negotiation, award, implementation and Ariba workspace management, and drafting agreements




- Implementing and auditing contract management controls, including annual price reviews, outline agreements and tail spend, to prevent value leakage, and performing Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) activities to improve supplier performance and outcomes for sites.
- Identifying and delivering supply-base rationalization and spend consolidation opportunities in your sub-category, using price benchmarking and should-cost analysis to assure value, and managing the transition with sites, warehousing, P2P, Finance and suppliers.
- Identifying and delivering substitution, standardization and low-cost-country sourcing opportunities, working with maintenance and engineering on technical equivalence, quality assurance and landed-cost evaluation.

Specialist Procurement - Maintenance, Repairs, Operations (MRO) Consumables

- Be part of the next exciting evolution of MRO
- Accountable for end-to-end category management and portfolio optimization
- Permanent role based in Perth

We are looking for a Specialist MRO within the MRO (Regional Goods & Services) team within Rio Tinto Procurement. MRO portfolio spans industrial supplies, electrical, plumbing and HVAC, hydraulics, industrial gases, drilling consumables and PPE,



supplied through integrated supply partners, OEMs, distributors, and local and Indigenous suppliers.

This role is critical to delivering a stronger, sharper and simpler approach to MRO category management. Beyond your sub‑category, you will understand the portfolio as a whole: what we buy, how materials flow from supplier to site, and the market forces that shape cost and availability. Your work will keep strategies and agreements practical and operationally relevant.

Reporting to the Principal Advisor, MRO (Goods and Services), your key responsibilities will include:

- Developing data-driven fact bases for your sub-category, including spend by product group, site and buying channel, contract coverage, demand patterns and supplier insights, and contributing to the wider portfolio view.
- Monitoring market trends and external influences, such as commodity and input costs, freight, FX and supply disruption, and translating them into practical category actions.
- Managing end-to-end sourcing events, from stakeholder briefings and tender evaluation through negotiation, award, implementation and Ariba workspace management, and drafting agreements with explicit pricing, indexation and service-level models that improve availability, safety and long-term value.
- Implementing and auditing contract management controls, including annual price reviews, outline agreements and tail spend, to prevent value leakage, and performing Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) activities to improve supplier performance and outcomes for sites. &

📌 Specialist Procurement – Maintenance, Repairs, Operations (Australia)
🏢 Riotinto
📍 Australia