Commercial Analyst

Commercial Analyst

• Join our global leading business offering outstanding personal development & global career opportunities
• Permanent employment which includes a huge range of additional benefits
• Role based in Chicago, IL, USA

About the role

Finding better ways to provide the materials the world needs. 

Our new Commercial Services team will streamline and guide how we invest in and harness technology for Commercial. This team will modernize our manual processes, addressing pain points and focusing on initiatives to improve customer experiences. We see Commercial Services as the engine room with their focus on post deal tasks such as invoicing, trade finance, shipping and laytime. Commercial Services is a unique opportunity to bring digital technology to the business, to create more synergies between teams and to bring together business improvements to achieve business excellence.

The key objective of the role is to be a team member within the Commercial Services team and take ownership of contracts and sales orders, invoicing, trade finance and logistics for Atlantic business.

Reporting to the Team Lead Copper Products, the Commercial Analyst will:

• Support the customer sales/service group with contract processes
• Manage inventory and warehouses to ensure just in time delivery
• Manage month-end reporting activities
• Be customer-oriented and responsive to the customer service team
• Perform routine activities in Commercial Services like invoicing, sales orders, contract entries. purchase orders and purchases for resale activities
• Manage copper products including cathodes and copper concentrate, plus gold, silver, and molybdenum
• Perform customer returns, metals accounting, management of weighing, sampling, assaying, and umpire processes required for some roles
• Manage production and logistics delays and challenges. Work with relevant parties to minimize impact
• Solve system issues related to customer service needs

About You

To succeed in this role, you will have:

• Knowledge in customer service / trade operations / trade finance / sales operations / sales administration / logistic coordination
• Ability to work in a large matrix team environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Technical and financial knowledge to be able to understand internal customers’ behaviour and processes, plus costs, and market knowledge
• Advanced knowledge of SAP
• Knowledge of PowerBI, Excel and other BI tools
• Knowledge of trading in metals and minerals preferable

What we offer

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

Where you will be working

This Commercial Analyst role is based in Chicago, IL, USA. The Commercial group is focused on maximizing the value of our products, growing value in the marketplace through partnership with the company’s customers, suppliers, product groups and Group functions. Headquartered in Singapore, and integrated with Rio Tinto’s assets, hubs, and offices globally, Commercial’s purpose is to provide the insights to drive value along the mine-to-market value chain. Commercial incorporates and utilises the knowledge and capabilities of the global Sales & Marketing, Procurement, and Marine & Logistics organisations, supported by the Market Analysis, Commercial Treasury, and other functions, to ensure our approach to business is driven by a commercially astute and innovative mind-set.

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. 

Every Voice Matters 

At Rio Tinto, we particularly welcome and encourage applications from Indigenous Peoples, women, the LGBTQ community, mature workers, people with disabilities and people from different cultural backgrounds.  

Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V 

Rio Tinto participates in E-Verify to confirm work authorization.  Please visit http://www.uscis.gov/ for more information. 

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.