Charterer

Why explore

• An opportunity to develop your chartering career in a world class organisation

• Dynamic engagement with external market players in the maritime industry and internal stakeholders across various commodity groups

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

About the role

We are looking for a Charterer to join our global chartering team in Singapore. This role will support the Chartering team and collaborate closely with various commodity business units to deliver safe, timely and efficient shipping services while navigating through a dynamic shipping market.

Reporting to the Global Portfolio Manager, you will:

• Lead and negotiate charter contracts with shipowners and brokers to achieve optimal commercial outcomes.

• Ownership of end-to-end contract lifecycle, including negotiation, execution oversight and performance optimization.

• Actively engage with shipowners and broker networks to build and manage strategic commercial relationships.

• Identify and execute third-party freight trading opportunities, including engaging external market participants, taking calculated positions and managing freight exposure to enhance portfolio outcomes

• Contribute to market intelligence, including freight reporting and insights to inform decision-making.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to optimize supply chain value, vessel performance and freight decisions.

• Monitor and manage contract performance, ensuring timely vessel nominations and issue resolution

• Develop and maintain a deep understanding of mine-to-customer supply chain dynamics.

• Partner with Vetting team to improve safety and operational capabilities of market vessels.

• Partner with Performance team to attain decarbonization targets.

• Adhere to governance frameworks and compliance guidelines at all times.

About you

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

• Bachelor Degree in Finance/ Economics/ Business/ Maritime or related field.

• 3-5 years of experience in a Chartering/Trading/Commercial role is strongly preferred.

• Demonstrated exposure to negotiations and/or commercial decision-making.

• Strong understanding of shipping markets is preferred.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

• Proficiency in Excel and IMOS systems.

• A commercially driven mindset with strong ownership and accountability.

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: 26 June 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.