Senir Advisor, Portfolio and Metal Management
Job Summary
A unique opportunity to shape Rio Tintos sales portfolios with a focus on promoting a value over volume approach.
Key role in a world-renowned organization
Permanent role - Based in Frankfurt Germany
Were 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 Senior Advisor to provide decision-making support for the Commercial Atlantic Portfolio team. Reporting to the Senior Manager Portfolio Metal Atlantic and S&OP and collaborating with different operating sites logistics procurement finance and other support functions you will lead the commercial strategy for the sales and marketing of aluminium products.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Optimize Portfolio Strategy Pricing & Execution
Optimize the short to midterm ISAL billet P1020/high purity from Canada NZAS ensuring alignment between commercial strategy market conditions and operational capabilities.
Define recommended sell volumes product mix purity and allocation to maximize portfolio value.
Recommend buy/sell price levels based on market dynamics and margin optimization in alignment with the Senior Manager Portfolio Metal Atlantic.
Monitor and optimize portfolio value to capture arbitrage opportunities including: geographic arbitrage time arbitrage product arbitrage physical vs. financial arbitrage and logistics arbitrage.
Analyze and clearly communicate profitability drivers risks and tradeoffs to internal stakeholders.
Oversee contract tracking amendments and cancellations and support the sales team on execution discipline and contract setup.
2. Position the Portfolio Across Supply Chain
Monitor portfolio positions production availability and valueadded product flows adjusting positioning as needed to optimize outcomes.
Support commercial growth and customer development in the region
Strengthen coordination between customers and operations
Improve responsiveness and decisionmaking as European volumes and complexity increases
Provide commercial and analytical support on market conditions geopolitical risks and negotiations.
Monitor book performance vs. Plan.
3. Production Inventory and Execution Alignment through S&OE and S&OP
Manage and maintain detailed metal availability allocation and positioning across plants products and customers both for the 0-3 month and 318-month time horizon.
Track finished goods inventory and vessel shipments to ensure execution aligns with production and sales plans.
Support daily and weekly execution by ensuring metal quality chemistry and product specifications are reflected correctly in shipments and allocations.
Monitor changes to production plans shutdowns and constraints and assess impacts on customer commitments and logistics flows.
What youll bring
To be successfully considered for this role you will ideally have:
University degree preferably in commerce finance or engineering
A masters degree or MBA will be an asset
Experience working with large datasets
Effective communication skills to interact with all levels of the organization
Self-driven results-oriented motivated and proactive
Team player with sound values and integrity
Strong analytical skills and critical thinking
English (written and spoken) Icelandic and/or German is an asset
What we offer
Be recognized for your contribution thinking and hard work and go home knowing youve helped the world progress.
A work environment where safety is always the number one priority
Career development & education assistance to further your technical or leadership ambitions
A competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with annual incentive program
Ongoing access to family-friendly health and medical programs pension and savings plans
Attractive share ownership plan
Leave for all of lifes reasons (vacation/annual paid parental sick leave)
Whereyoullbe working
OurCommercialfunction at Rio Tinto connects our product groupscustomersand suppliers from mine to market. We bring together Sales & Marketing and Trading (Sell) Global Procurement (Buy) and Marine & Logistics (Move) to buy sell and move the materials the world needs by partnering across the value chain to optimise outcomes for our customers and the Group. Headquartered in our globalCommercialhub in Singapore and with a strong presence in Chicago Frankfurt Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing ShanghaiTokyoand Seoul we work as one team to deliver customer centric value safely and sustainably.
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 cant do it on our own so were 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 Indigenous Peoples women the LGBTQIA 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.
Required Experience:
Unclear Seniority
About Company
Rio Tinto is a leading global mining group that focuses on finding, mining and processing the Earth’s mineral resources. Discover more about Rio Tinto's mining operations today.