Gis Specialist

Company Description
- Anglo American is a leading global mining company, and our products are the essential ingredients in almost every aspect of modern life. Our portfolio of world-class competitive mining operations and undeveloped resources provides the metals and minerals that enable a cleaner, greener, more sustainable world and that meet the fast-growing consumer-driven demands of the world’s developed and maturing economies.

Our mission is to help farmers around the world increase crop production by improving their efficiency, effectiveness, flexibility and sustainability. POLY4 is a multi-nutrient, low-chloride fertilizer derived from a naturally occurring polyhalite mineral. With no chemical processing and low carbon footprint during manufacturing, POLY4 is suitable for organic farming and offers season-long crop nutrition by supplying four essential nutrients - potassium, sulphur, magnesium and calcium - in one product.

This balanced nutrition backed up by years of global agronomic data, will help increase yields, improve crop quality, and enhance structure and nutrient legacy of soils.

**Job Description**:

- Join us as a GIS Specialist where you will support the delivery of a high performing global agronomy and commercial strategy team - to help focus inputs and outputs for business planning.
- Lead the development and delivery of a GIS function to inform and guide Agronomy and Commercial Strategy programmes through interactive tools that resolve real knowledge and focus decision making.
- Support development of crop nutrition strategies that leverage the unique characteristics of polyhalite
- Support creating deep understanding of how new minerals like polyhalite provides new functions and benefits to crop production systems
- Contribute to and lead new data sources (spatial data, remote sensing, logistics data, IoT etc.) to add depth to existing knowledge and analysis.
- Contribute to effective data storage and retention (databasing etc).
- Communicate technical knowledge to our global technical and commercial teams.
- Deliver project results and provide knowledge transfer to all internal and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to effective and improved end-end of geospatial data analysis and reporting functions.
- Contribute to updating budget expenditure and activity status.
- Qualifications
- A university degree in a GIS related discipline with experience of developing land/agricultural solutions.
- Demonstrated technical skills and expertise in the use of ESRI desktop software platform, in exposure to GIS software (e.g. Arc GIS, QGIS, GRASS)
- Outline understanding of crop production systems and practices for large scale agricultural production systems (support available).
- Experience with programming languages and software (e.g. Python,.NET, JavaScript) to automate GIS workflows.
- Ability to manage confidential and highly sensitive information with the highest levels of discretion and professionalism.
- Excellent numerical skills.
- Excellent written and verbal presentation skills. Highly proficient in spoken and written English essential.
- Advanced time and project management skills. Agile preferred.
- Additional Information
- A valid UK country driving license is required for this role
- This role may require a company medical assessment in line with the role requirements.

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