Business Analyst – Warehousing (SAP & EWM) at Anglo American

Overview

Company Description:

Anglo American’s purpose is to reimagine mining to improve people’s lives and is committed to creating a Living Mine that brings positive value to the people and environment where we operate.

Supply Chain is positioning itself for the future, by becoming more purpose-driven in aid of realising the Anglo American purpose and driving to be more agile and resilient.  Central to being more purpose-driven is delivering significantly more positive impact within our host communities, acting as supplier interface to provide velocity to our innovation, technical & sustainability change programme, that includes improved safety performance and the embedment of circular economy principles, as well as overall delivery of significantly more sustainable value.  To build a more agile and resilient Supply Chain the commoditized execution and digitalisation of processes is a key focus whilst driving operational excellence.

The Global Supply Chain Centre of Excellence (CoE) is uniquely positioned at the core of Supply Chain and plays a leading role to continuously position Supply Chain as world-class. This is achieved through the understanding and implementation of cutting-edge technology and practices across the Supply Chain value chain, combined with a robust people development programme and a strong link to the overall company objectives.

This role supports excellence in Supply Chain, working with leaders and teams to define, develop and implement leading practice in digitalisation and support the new/disruptive technology systems to drive continuous improvement to attain and maintain performance targets.

Job Description:

Provide specialist support to enable the achievement of associated plans and digitalisation roadmaps of Supply Chain.

• Contribute to the development of the digitalisation strategy and road map, critical tasks and performance targets for Supply Chain and the broader organisation.
• Provide specialist support with the implementation of the Supply Chain digital critical tasks and performance targets, focusing on the digital deliverables’ roadmap
• Manage the adoption and deployment of new systems and ensure ongoing operation. Including Extended Warehouse Management systems / EWP.
• Monitor and report on the health of applicable products and clusters across the value chain ensuring ongoing integrity and sustainability of digital solutions.
•  Ensure digitalisation efforts enable value delivery.
• Provide advisory support with defining new ways of working, designing functional requirements, enabling systems, tools and templates and advanced analytics.
• Encourage effective change through the organisation that will promote the use and adoption of Extended Warehouse Management digital solutions.
• Compile reports and dashboards to ensure delivery of digital solutions.
• Ensure effective data analysis and benchmarking for digitalisation improvement is conducted.
• Conduct broad scanning activities to keep up to date with innovative approaches and opportunities.
• Provide specialist support for compiling best practice definitions through research and data analysis.
• Collaborate closely with global and regional teams to identify and address issues, glean insights from users and drive focus on simplification and continuous improvement in the digital space.
•  Support a strategic approach across all digitalisation work where communities are central to strategies, ways of working, digital enablement and associated initiatives
• Support the Supply Chain sustainability strategy and priorities to the wider business through digitalisation efforts.
• Embrace a Supply Chain team culture of diversity and inclusiveness 
• Support team’s adherence to planned timeframes
• Ensure compliance to internal Anglo American and Supply Chain Governance requirements for all team members and pertaining to all relevant activities
•  Support cross functional team interactions with internal stakeholders to execute relevant activities

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Qualifications:

Qualifications:

An undergraduate qualification - Bachelor degree level or equivalent, alternatively relevant qualification and proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

Experience: Practical experience in relevant field

Desirable: A postgraduate qualification in a relevant discipline OR a proven track record of extensive practical experience in a role and context of similar complexity

 Technical Knowledge:

• Strong technical knowledge across the Supply Chain value chain, ability to integrate and understand what drives excellence
• Strong experience of SAP and experience of working with EWP / Extended Warehouse Management systems.
• Digital and Data Science knowledge gained within Warehouse Management or Inventory Management systems.
• Sound commercial knowledge
• Project management (agile preferred)

Additional information:

Anglo American is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to promoting an inclusive and diverse workplace where we value and respect every colleague for who they are and provide equality of opportunity so that everyone can fulfil their potential.