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Category Specialist Operational Services

Rio Tinto · Charlotte, NC · 1 mo ago
HybridFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: About the role, Responsibilities (What You’ll Be Doing), Requirements (About You, Required for Success, Skills and Capabilities, Experience, Qualifications, Systems, Technical Proficiency, Helpful for Success maybe combine), Benefits (What We Offer), maybe Pay (Competitive base salary...), Schedule (hybrid work arrangement, three days per week, travel). Also location maybe not needed as heading but could be in About the role? The instruction: use

for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we need to decide which sections have real content. We have: - About the role: there is "About The Role" paragraph. So we can have

About the role

with

content. - Responsibilities: "What You’ll Be Doing" list. So

Responsibilities

with
  • items. - Requirements: Could combine "About You", "Required for Success", "Skills and Capabilities", "Experience", "Qualifications", "Systems", "Technical Proficiency", "Helpful for Success". But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can have a single

    Requirements

    with sub-sections? But instruction says use

    for section headings; we could have multiple

    sections like Skills, Qualifications, etc. But they said prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine into one Requirements section with paragraphs and lists. We need to preserve all substantive info. Let's extract. About the role paragraph: "We are looking for a Category Specialist Operational Services to support Operations in Bessemer City, North Carolina. In this role, you will provide end-to-end procurement support across sourcing, supplier management, category implementation and operational purchasing activities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships, influencing outcomes, and delivering practical procurement solutions while maintaining high standards of governance and compliance. This position is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and follows a hybrid work arrangement, with employees expected to be in the office three days per week. Frequent travel to our Bessemer City operations site will be required to support stakeholders, build operational partnerships, and deliver procurement initiatives." We can include that in About the role. Responsibilities bullet list: from "What You’ll Be Doing": - Lead request for proposal (RFP) processes and sourcing activities for manufacturing operations. - Identify and deliver value opportunities across multiple spend categories through strategic sourcing and supplier engagement. - Develop and manage supplier relationships, including performance reviews and ongoing contract support. - Partner with operational stakeholders to understand requirements, forecast demand, and implement category strategies. - Provide procurement analytics, reporting, and insights to identify cost optimisation opportunities and monitor purchase price variances. - Maintain pricing information and purchasing data within SAP, including Info Records and purchase order processes. - Drive continuous improvement initiatives that enhance procurement efficiency, accuracy, and compliance. - Provide cross-site procurement support and contribute to a strong safety, environmental, and operational culture. Now Requirements: Let's gather. From "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." Then "Required for Success": bullet list? Actually it's a heading then paragraphs: - A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team. - Skills and Capabilities: Demonstrated capability in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision making. - Experience: Experience supporting manufacturing or industrial operations through procurement, purchasing, or supply chain activities. - Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, procurement, or a related discipline. - Systems: Strong SAP experience, including purchase order creation, purchasing workflows, and maintaining Info Records. - Technical Proficiency: Strong Microsoft Office skills, attention to detail, and experience analysing procurement data. - Helpful for Success: Experience within chemicals, mining, metals, manufacturing, or other heavy industrial sectors. Experience leading continuous improvement or cost reduction initiatives. Exposure to category management and contract implementation activities. We can combine these into a Requirements section with paragraphs and maybe sub-lists. We also have Benefits: "What We Offer" paragraph list: - 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. - Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus. - Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits. - Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program. - Attractive share ownership plan. - Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave. - A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family. - Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing. - Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges. Pay: "Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus." That's part of benefits but could be separate Pay section. Since we have Pay as possible heading, we could extract that line into Pay section. However the instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." The posting does state competitive base salary with annual incentive bonus. So we can have a Pay section with that sentence. Schedule: "This position is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and follows a hybrid work arrangement, with employees expected to be in the office three days per week. Frequent travel to our Bessemer City operations site will be required..." That's schedule/hybrid and travel. So we can have Schedule section with that sentence. But note that the About the role already includes that schedule sentence. We might duplicate if we put both. The instruction: preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. If we put schedule in About the role and also separate Schedule section, we would duplicate content. Better to keep schedule info only in Schedule section and not repeat in About the role. However About the role currently includes that sentence; we could remove it from About the role and keep only the role description. But we must preserve all substantive info; moving it to another section is fine as long as it's preserved somewhere. So we can edit About the role paragraph to exclude the schedule sentence, and place that sentence in Schedule section. Similarly, location (Charlotte, Bessemer City) maybe we keep in About the role or elsewhere. The location is substantive; we can keep in About the role. Thus: About the role: paragraph without schedule sentence. Let's craft About the role paragraph: "We are looking for a Category Specialist Operational Services to support Operations in Bessemer City, North Carolina. In this role, you will provide end-to-end procurement support across sourcing, supplier management, category implementation and operational purchasing activities. This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys building strong stakeholder relationships, influencing outcomes, and delivering practical procurement solutions while maintaining high standards of governance and compliance." Now Schedule section: "This position is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and follows a hybrid work arrangement, with employees expected to be in the office three days per week. Frequent travel to our Bessemer City operations site will be required to support stakeholders, build operational partnerships, and deliver procurement initiatives." Pay section: "Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus." Benefits section: list of benefits items (excluding the competitive base salary line). We'll make
    • for each benefit. Now Requirements section: We'll combine. We need to avoid thin sections; we can have one Requirements section with paragraphs and maybe subheadings? But we cannot use

      etc; only

      for section headings. So inside Requirements we can just have paragraphs and lists. Let's extract content: - A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team. (maybe as a bullet or sentence) - Skills and Capabilities: Demonstrated capability in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision making. - Experience: Experience supporting manufacturing or industrial operations through procurement, purchasing, or supply chain activities. - Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, procurement, or a related discipline. - Systems: Strong SAP experience, including purchase order creation, purchasing workflows, and maintaining Info Records. - Technical Proficiency: Strong Microsoft Office skills, attention to detail, and experience analysing procurement data. - Helpful for Success: Experience within chemicals, mining, metals, manufacturing, or other heavy industrial sectors. Experience leading continuous improvement or cost reduction initiatives. Exposure to category management and contract implementation activities. We could format as a list where each item is a bold label? But we must use
      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can make a
          with each requirement as
        • . Inside each
        • we can have the text. Thus Requirements section:

          Requirements

          • A commitment to the safety of yourself and your team.
          • Skills and Capabilities: Demonstrated capability in procurement, strategic sourcing, supplier negotiations, stakeholder engagement, and data-driven decision making.
          • Experience: Experience supporting manufacturing or industrial operations through procurement, purchasing, or supply chain activities.
          • Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain, procurement, or a related discipline.
          • Systems: Strong SAP experience, including purchase order creation, purchasing workflows, and maintaining Info Records.
          • Technical Proficiency: Strong Microsoft Office skills, attention to detail, and experience analysing procurement data.
          • Helpful for Success: Experience within chemicals, mining, metals, manufacturing, or other heavy industrial sectors. Experience leading continuous improvement or cost reduction initiatives. Exposure to category management and contract implementation activities.
          Now Responsibilities section:

          Responsibilities

          • Lead request for proposal (RFP) processes and sourcing activities for manufacturing operations.
          • ... etc. Now Benefits section:

            Benefits

            • 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.
            • Access to top-tier family-friendly health programs including medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, life insurance coverage, and various voluntary benefits.
            • Excellent retirement plan including up to 6% defined company contribution; Generous 401k matching program.
            • Attractive share ownership plan.
            • Comprehensive leave policies which cover all the moments that matter in life PTO (paid time off), paid holidays, and paid bereavement leave.
            • A generous parental leave policy, which ensures you’re able to spend quality time with your new family.
            • Discount programs for leisure purposes and access to Virgin Pulse with incentives supporting your wellbeing.
            • Access to our Employee Assistance Program (EAP), which provides confidential counselling or expert guidance for you and your family to help get through life’s challenges.
            Note we excluded the competitive base salary line (now in Pay) and safety priority line? Actually safety priority is a benefit; we kept it. Now Pay section:

            Pay

            Competitive base salary reflective of your skills and experience with an annual incentive bonus.

            Schedule section:

            Schedule

            This position is based in Charlotte, North Carolina, and follows a hybrid work arrangement, with employees expected to be in the office three days per week. Frequent travel to our Bessemer City operations site will be required to support stakeholders

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