Analyst - Supply Chain Integration & Reporting

Why explore

• A challenging position working in our World Class Commercial Operations organization

• An opportunity to develop your career within a global organisation

• Based in Singapore, a global commercial hub for Rio Tinto

About the role

We are looking for an Analyst - Supply Chain Integration & Reporting. This role sits within the Global Integrated Planning function, supporting the Rio Tinto Lithium Product Group.

The role plays a critical part in connecting and providing visibility across the end-to-end Lithium Carbonate Equivalent (LCE) network. This includes upstream production in Argentina, downstream processing and tolling, and global sales across a diverse portfolio of lithium products (including carbonate, hydroxide, metals, chloride, butyllithium, and related derivatives).

The successful candidate will develop a deep, integrated understanding of how material flows through the network each month—linking production, conversion, sales, and inventory into a single, coherent view. As the asset base expands significantly over the next five years, this role will act as a key integrator, ensuring alignment across functions and providing clarity to stakeholders on operational and financial outcomes.

A key aspect of success in this role is maintaining strong connectivity with day-to-day operations. The individual will be expected to actively participate in regular operational forums, including upstream plant discussions and downstream commercial and supply chain meetings, to stay closely aligned with evolving issues, decisions, and performance drivers across the network.

Reporting to the Global Demand Planning Manager, with a matrix reporting line to the Global Supply Planning Manager, you will:

End-to-End Visibility

• Develop and maintain a structured, node-level view of the LCE supply chain, tracking inventory positions and material flows across production sites, tolling/conversion facilities, and global distribution points.

• Track, reconcile, and validate monthly material movements, ensuring alignment across production, downstream processing, sales, and inventory balances.

• Support the consolidation and validation of global datasets to maintain an accurate and consistent view of production, sales, and inventory

Cross-Functional Integration

• Partner with upstream operations, downstream processing sites, and commercial teams to understand performance drivers, constraints, and variances.

• Participate in regular operational and commercial forums to stay aligned with day-to-day developments across the network.

• Work with Finance to support monthly, quarterly, and year-end reporting, providing analysis and explanations of operational performance.

Performance Analysis & Insights

• Prepare and contribute to management reporting, translating operational data into clear and concise insights for stakeholders.

• Analyse and explain variances between plan and actuals across production, supply chain, and commercial outcomes.

• Support identification of key risks, issues, and opportunities through structured data analysis.

Planning & S&OP Support

• Support demand and supply planning activities, including supply-demand balancing and scenario analysis.

• Provide relevant supply, demand, and inventory insights to S&OP processes and Monthly Business Reviews.

• Collaborate with planning teams to improve alignment between operational realities and planning assumptions.

Additional Scope & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Finance and stakeholders to improve visibility of working capital drivers (inventory, receivables, and payables).

• Support efforts to improve data integrity, consistency, and alignment across systems and reporting processes.

• Assist in onboarding and integrating new assets into the supply chain reporting framework.

• Contribute to enhancements in data models, reporting automation, and visualization tools (e.g., Power BI).

About you

To be successfully considered for this role, you will have:

• A bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related field.

• 5+ years of experience in supply chain, integrated planning, operations, analytics, or finance in mining, chemicals, or similarly complex industries.

• Strong understanding of end-to-end supply chain processes, including production, inventory management, and distribution.

• Experience working across global, cross-functional teams in complex operational environments.

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize large datasets into actionable insights.

• Strong financial acumen, with experience linking operational performance to financial outcomes (e.g., working capital, margins).

• Proficiency in Excel and experience with ERP systems (e.g. SAP) and analytics/visualization tools (e.g. Power BI).

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to present complex information clearly at both high level and detailed levels.

• High attention to detail, with a structured and disciplined approach to data and reporting.

• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment with expanding asset scope.

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 competitive salary package with annual cash incentive awards for eligible employees

• Career development & education assistance to further your ambitions

• Access top tier family-friendly health and medical programs and pension plan

• Wellbeing benefits

• Generous Rio Tinto employee share program

• Employee Assistance Program

• Ongoing individual wellbeing support for you and your family for personal and professional matter

• Leave for all of life’s reasons (vacation/annual, paid parental, sick leave)

Where you will be working

Our Commercial function at Rio Tinto connects our product groups, customers and 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 global Commercial hub in Singapore, and with a strong presence in Chicago, Frankfurt, Antwerp and across Asia in Beijing, Shanghai, Tokyo and Seoul, we work as one team to deliver customer centric value, safely and sustainably.

Work at the heart of our global Commercial hub in Singapore, partnering cross‑functionally across Buy, Sell and Move to shape strategy and deliver mine‑to‑market value around the world.

Application Deadline: 10 August 2026 (Rio Tinto reserves the right to remove job postings prior to the stated closing 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.

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.