• 6 months contract, with benefits
• Multi National Company

 As a world leader in finding, mining and processing the earth's mineral resources, Rio Tinto delivers minerals and metals that meet global needs and contribute to improving our living standards. Our success depends not only on the quality and diversity of the Group's assets, but also on the talent, skills and safety of our people. We seek to contribute to sustainable development and share a commitment to be a dependable global partner and a good local neighbour. Rio Tinto Procurement (RTP) is a global function focussed on delivering value for the Rio Tinto Group through sourcing and buying goods and services. Our role is to ensure the right goods and services are delivered, safely, to the right location at the right time and at competitive Total Cost of Ownership. Our strategy aims to strike a balance between efficiencies gained from global processes and the significant benefits of working with local suppliers and communities. We are currently seeking for a Manager, Outsourcing to join our Singapore team. The primary purpose of the Category Manager is to lead (directly and indirectly) a team of highly skilled and experienced professionals responsible for and to focus on development, deployment and management of sourcing strategies in order to deliver sustained value and competitive advantage to the Rio Tinto Group and it's operating businesses.The accountabilities for the team extend to fact based development of sourcing strategies and programs, associated policies, building compelling cases for change and with the GM or self led gaining stakeholder buy in, decisions on the most effective service delivery channels for various segments of the category(ies), supplier relationship management, contract negotiation, implementation and performance management, compliance analysis and the development  / execution of improvement actions, supply chain management and reporting all within a global scope.  As their leader, leveraging global applications and relationships, internal and external, from a competitive and cost perspective will ensure success in this role. To be considerered for this role, you should possess: 

• Commercially focused business leadership.
• Global, corporate, cross-cultural environment.
• Managing strategic supplier relationships on a global level or across multiple regions.
• Development and implementation of innovative supply strategies.
• Contribution to a senior management team
• Category experience & knowledge