Manager Contracts and Procurement

• Join a global leading business

• Advance your career in a dynamic, supportive team environment

• Full time, permanent role, based in Brisbane

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 Contracts & Procurement Manager to help support the Kangwinan Project, a major mining infrastructure development initiative located in Weipa, Queensland. In this role, you’ll provide procurement, contracting and commercial leadership across key project delivery activities, while working closely with project leadership, EPCM partner, operations, engineering, construction and support functions.

To be based in Brisbane, this is a great opportunity for an experienced commercial leader who enjoys complex project environments, strategic supplier engagement and influencing senior stakeholders, and wants to play a key role in enabling safe, sustainable and commercially optimised outcomes across a major project portfolio.

What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Project Director and working in a collaborative, fast-paced and commercially complex project environment within the Kangwinan Project team, you will be:

• Leading contracts, procurement and commercial activities across major project packages, ensuring alignment with project objectives, governance requirements and delivery timelines

• Developing and implementing procurement strategies, sourcing plans and commercial frameworks that support safe, sustainable and efficient project execution.

• Providing oversight and assurance of EPCM and direct hire procurement activities, including contract formation, governance, controls and supplier engagement

• Managing complex procurement packages through market engagement, tendering, evaluation, negotiation, contract award, administration and close-out, including partnering with domestic and international suppliers, including China-based suppliers, to support sourcing, logistics, expediting, freight, customs and supply chain outcomes

• Advising senior project, operational and corporate stakeholders on commercial risks, procurement decisions, contract strategies and governance approvals, driving value creation through supplier engagement, negotiation, commercial optimisation, risk management and continuous improvement

• Leading, mentoring and influencing procurement and contract management professionals across the project and broader commercial community

About you

We’re looking for someone whose experience aligns with the key requirements below. You do not need to meet every “helpful for success” item to apply — if you bring relevant experience and are excited by the opportunity, we encourage you to submit an application.

Required for Success

• A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team

• Extensive experience in contracts, procurement, commercial management or supply chain leadership within mining, resources, infrastructure, construction, energy, oil and gas, or heavy industrial environments

• Demonstrated experience developing procurement strategies, managing complex procurement packages and negotiating high-value contracts in a major project environment

• Strong stakeholder engagement, commercial acumen and influencing skills, with the ability to confidently advise and engage senior project, operational and corporate leadership

Helpful for Success

• Experience working within an Owner’s Team environment and/or alongside EPCM and project contractors

• Exposure to international sourcing, global supply chains and supplier engagement across China or other overseas markets

• Experience supporting logistics, freight, traffic, materials coordination or supply chain activities for remote, regional or large-scale project delivery environments

What we offer

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 & cultural leave) 

• Exclusive employee discounts (banking, accommodation, cars, retail and more) 

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 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.