Specialist IM Marketing Back Office

Valterra Platinum, formerly Anglo American Platinum, is a leading primary producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), with integrated mining, smelting, and refining operations in South Africa and Zimbabwe, marketing the metal we produce globally. Following our demerger from Anglo American plc, Valterra Platinum is now an independent, publicly listed company with a primary and secondary listing on the Johannesburg and London stock exchanges respectively.

As we embark on this exciting new chapter, Valterra Platinum is positioned to define and pursue its own strategy, anchored in operational excellence, sustainability, and value creation for the long-term. With full accountability for our performance and growth, we are focused on strengthening our capabilities across the entire PGM value chain, from mine to market.

Our independence empowers us to deepen our commitment to stakeholdersand lead with purpose – to Unearth Value to Better Our World. We remainsteadfast in our ambition to be the world’s foremost producer of platinum groupmetals, while embedding safety and sustainability in everything we do.

If you're driven by purpose and the opportunity to make a lasting impact, we invite you to join us. Apply today and be part of something bigger.

This role is based in Singapore.

Job Description Section

The Specialist IM Marketing Back Office is responsible for the design, development, enhancement, and support of Marketing back office and risk reporting applications across the commodity trading value chain.

The role requires specialist technical expertise in trading, risk management, compliance, and regulatory reporting systems, contributing to the delivery of secure, reliable, and effective software solutions that support business requirements. The incumbent drives development activities within their area of responsibility, maintains application design standards and knowledge repositories, and collaborates with business stakeholders and technical teams to improve system functionality, operational efficiency, and the end-to-end trade lifecycle for physical and financial trading activities.

Performance and Delivery
Monitors and improves operational processes. This work requires the ability to draw on data in order to make a diagnosis. Then decide between alternative methods to address individual case(s). Recommends improvements to processes/ systems.

• Responsible for the development and implementation of market risk, credit risk, operational risk, compliance and regulatory reporting utilising IM's inhouse CORE framework approach, and in accordance with agreed coding standards, release procedures, architecture and quality standards.

• Responsible for the development associated with the Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) applications used by Marketing for risk management

• Contribute to the Marketing IM technology strategy.

• Develop and implement system components and tools inside CORE and COTS risk systems.

• Ensure the knowledge underpinning any new enhancement is documented, managed and maintained.

• Work with the support team to identify, plan and execute service improvements to those systems that are developed.

• Assist support team with any technical queries.

• Understand the business processes and flows to enable the development of solutions.

• Work with project and support teams to manage service introduction and deployment.

People & Teams

• Actively engage as a team member in all team processes. Implement a purpose-driven, high-performing culture that is aligned with the company values, is inclusive and promotes diversity, supports engagement and fosters continuous improvement to work processes.

• Responsible for leading a team of developers to develop Marketing IM system to meet the needs of business users. This will include line management of permanent team members, and performance management for contractors and consultants.

• Provide technical support and guidance to develop the team and their capability

• Support the team to operate in accordance with AAP and Marketing IM operational processes, standards, frameworks and quality controls as required.

• Managing team tasks, workflow and mentoring.

• Support the professional development of permanent team members to enable individual growth and progression and to continuously improve internal developer capabilities.

Compliance

• Ensure compliance with internal and external regulatory, legislative and permitting requirements.

• Adherence to all Valterra Platinum Group and Marketing policies and procedures, as well as observing proper standards of conduct relating to the role.

• Comply with AAP Security and Operating Standards.

Thought leadership & Innovation:

• Responsible for capturing and prioritizing the development work required for the Marketing function in one or more areas of the application estate.

• Proactive contributor to the development and design community of practice, encouraging innovation amongst the community and supporting individuals and teams to share creative ideas to constantly improve the quality of the development deliverables.

• Ambassador for innovation, with the ability to connect relevant technology advancements with opportunity for business improvements.

Quality & Controls:

• Defining and implementing design and development quality controls, standards, and practices to ensure compliance and cohesion between Marketing transformation activities.

• Responsibility for defining and maintaining best-practice, high value, development artefacts.

Role-specific knowledge:

Development and Technology:

• Essential: C#, ASP.Net, Angular 17+

• Essential: Relational database experience (SQL)

• Essential: Unit testing

• (Strongly preferred) Experience working In Agile development teams

• (Strongly preferred) Exploratory data analysis

• (Strongly preferred) Data Engineering – Azure Data Factory or Data Bricks

• (Preferred) Microservices, .Net Core, Power BI

• (Preferred) Azure Cloud Services

• (Nice to have) Coding (working knowledge of Python)

• (Nice to have) knowledge of commercial off the shelf risk management applications (e.g. CubeLogic, deltaconX, Behavox)

• (Nice to have) knowledge of the Aspect trading platform

• (Nice to have) Knowledge of SAP

Commodities

• Essential: 15+ years software development in a commodities or financial services firm, ideally metals, but other commodities also possibility.

Technical Skills
Commercial Reasoning and Application - Understand every element of the marketing value chain, financial concepts and appropriate risk management, and applies this knowledge to achieve business success and growth. (Level Proficient)

Commodity Knowledge - Understand the production process, technical characteristics, market dynamics, commodity applications, our customers, their requirements and how we deliver value. (Level Basic),

Customer Relationship Management - Understand and anticipate external customers’ needs and takes action to meet expectations and deliver value quality outcomes. (Level Proficient),

Integrated Sales and Operations Planning - Manage activities throughout the marketing value chain to maximise the value of product delivery into the market. (Level Basic),

Market Analytics and Intelligence - Leverage market information to develop strategies and opportunities that create value for the business. (Level Basic),

Negotiation and Influencing - Develop and use negotiation and influencing skills and strategies and builds relationships to create optimal outcomes to deliver value. (Level Proficient),

Sourcing - Identify and quantify the volume, cost, value and sources of revenue, providing a base of business and product flows which the trading desk can optimise to create value for the business. (Level Basic).

Physical and Financial Trading - Identify, evaluate and execute physical and financial trading activity within approved risk and governance protocol defined governance frameworks, which will drive profit and loss performance in line with the Marketing Business Unit's strategy. (Level Basic),

Risk Management - Understand, quantify and manage the risks of the business across the whole marketing value chain to support value creation. (Level Basic)

Sales Execution - Manage activities to facilitate and execute sales effectively and efficiently to generate value. (Level Basic),

Shipping and Logistics for Delivered Sales - Manage shipping of commodities efficiently and effectively to generate value including chartering, operations and scheduling. (Level Basic)

Structured Origination - Identify, qualify, structure and close value maximising deals for the Marketing Business Unit by applying in-depth market knowledge and customer insight and leveraging personal networks. (Level Basic),

Social process skills are the people skills needed to ensure effective interactions with other people to achieve productive outcomes and build effective relationships. Select the competency level for skills.

Broad Scanning: Seeking and using the broadest internal and external view, beyond current issues and constraints,

Setting Direction: Setting clear direction and priorities and gaining support of others,

Leading Change: Alerting and engaging people in the need for specific transformational changes in the way things are done at Valterra Platinum.

Inspiring Others: Energizing, developing and enabling colleagues to succeed,

Collaboration: Building relationships and fostering cross boundary collaboration,

Impact & Influence: Deepening self-awareness and applying influencing techniques that gain commitment and support,

Decision making: Evaluating information, good decision making, manage risk, drive safe, reliable and sustainable operations and protect the license to operate,

Driving performance: Driving plan delivery, holding people and self to account,

Business acumen: Applying rigorous commercial and business thinking to decision making in order to generate value,

Demonstrate drive, determination, persistence, and commitment to apply other elements of capability work. There could be ad hoc requirements from time to time including need to travel.

What We Offer

At Valterra Platinum, you will join a team committed to excellence and impact.

We offer:

• Meaningful work in a high-performance, values-led environment.
• Market-aligned reward and recognition.
• Opportunities for learning, development and progression.
• A culture that respects diversity and encourages innovation.
• A clear commitment to safe Operations.

Inclusion and Diversity

Valterra Platinum 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 fulfill their potential.
Valterra Platinum has a zero tolerance to dignity harms, these include all acts of gender based violence, bullying, harassment and victimisation. Ensuring the safety of our employees extends beyond physical safety and includes the eradication of harmful behaviours from our workplace. This responsibility extends to everyone at Valterra Platinum both during work hours and outside of work. We are unconditional in creating a respectful, inclusive, and safe working environment.

How to Apply

To apply for this role, please complete our online application form via this job advert.