Specialist Product Manager at Anglo American

Job Description:

• Manage the development, release and implementation of innovative applications throughout the business.
• Participate in relevant safety audits, inspections and observations, and address any issues
• Provides a consistent outstanding role model in relation to safety practices with a deep understanding of the importance of safety
• Support innovation and thought leadership for technology solutions that deliver significant value to company
• Support cloud and hybrid cloud application delivery and enabling platforms for rapid development and deployment for a discrete product
• Drive usability with strong focus on user experience and mobile technology for a discrete product
• Capture business/functional requirements, expected service levels and user experience requirements from business units for a discrete product
• Support evaluation of existing applications within the mining industry and across adjacent industries that can direct existing development or initiate new strategic direction
• Implement best practice for agile application development
• Keep updated on emerging enabling technology (PaaS and other) in order to accelerate work programs
• Identify new applications and enhancement to existing applications solving business problems and delivering value to company
• Implementation of aligned UX patterns for intuitive application navigation and use
• Maintain and communicate roadmap for a discrete product throughout T&S, Bus and sites
• Deliver inflight and new products to release stage by collating and analysing product requirements and product development programs; preparing business cases; establishing and executing against time schedules with engaged system integrators and technology partners
• Engage across industry bodies and technology providers to ensure the company aligns to existing and emerging standards
• Project management and performance reporting systems
• Foster awareness of environmental and social sustainability within team and consider full impact of decisions
• Manage relationships and direct work program with system integrators and technology vendors for a discrete product
• Prioritize product backlogs in liaison with customer/stakeholder for a discrete product
• Rewrite the policies, processes and systems which apply to your work and operate within these requirements
• Understands their role as a team member and team leader and can translate into their day-to-day interactions
• Understands the behaviour of individuals and the effects on the team, resolving conflicts
• Team Leader - Fosters a climate that is inclusive and where team members feel safe to contribute, collaborate, receive feedback and coaching
• Establishes and nurtures relationships with stakeholders, by use of effective listening and questioning to better understand the other person or group
• Understands how to influence or negotiate with others, in order to achieve productive outcomes
• Can effectively balance positive interactions with getting the work done
• The drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply the other elements of capability to complete safe, sustainable productive work.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Geology or Geophysics is required.

Role Specific Knowledge:

• Information Management/Technology or Computer Science discipline career
• Knowledge and experience in product development & design

Technical Knowledge:

• Data analytical tools and techniques to create accurate management reports for decision-making
• Understanding of the key principles of the AA Operating Model  
• Business improvement tools and techniques
• Mining or oil and energy sector knowledge
• High level knowledge of enterprise data and has demonstrated success of working with data sources in mining, oil and gas, geoscience or similar disciplines, data integration, data lake and data quality workflows
• Application lifecycle management
• Stakeholder engagement to enable aligned goals

Compliance:

• Safety, health and environment, legislative, statutory, regulatory and permitting requirements
• AA Safety Values & expectations

Operations:

• Application lifecycle management
• Cloud and Hybrid Cloud computing (PaaS and IaaS)
• Experience with agile project management methods and practices
• Understanding of Big Data workflows and related technology
• Application solution architecture
• Systematic, knowledge-based problem-solving approach and structured methodologies (such as root cause analysis and statistical analysis) to investigate risks and opportunities to create effective, value-add technical solutions
• In-depth understanding of the mining value chain to identify and execute on opportunities here technical expertise can enhance business performance

Closing Date: 31st, March 2022