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.
We are constructing a state-of-the-art underground mine to enable the extraction of Polyhalite – a unique multi-nutrient fertiliser – along with the necessary infrastructure both above and below ground that will be required for transport, processing, and distribution.
POLY4 is our flagship multi-nutrient fertiliser product. Made from Polyhalite, it contains four of the six macro-nutrients that are essential to plant growth. It allows farmers to maximise their crop yield, increase quality and improve soil structure with one simple product.
To work here, you must share our values and determination to reach our goals quickly, efficiently and with the highest safety standards.
Job Description
Join us as a
Programme Delivery Specialist, you will support the Programme Manager in coordinating, planning and driving delivery of the Accelerated Seeding Programme – a business initiative to establish early-stage commercial operations, build confidence in the Crop Nutrients business, and prepare the organisation to scale safely and reliably. You will support cross-functional planning, stakeholder alignment, risk management, programme governance, and business readiness activities.
Your duties will include:
Programme Planning & Alignment
- Coordinate development of the integrated programme plan, consolidating outcomes, milestones, dependencies and readiness requirements across all functions.
- Support in translating strategic objectives into clear outcomes, milestones, dependencies and readiness criteria.
- Ensure alignment between Commercial, Operations, Technical, Quality, Logistics and Marketing teams, including international teams where required.
- Identify critical path, risks to delivery, and cross-functional bottlenecks.
- Use sound judgement to introduce structure and planning discipline where helpful, while maintaining flexibility in areas where agility is essential
Governance & Performance Management
- Support the Programme Manager in operating governance routines so that risks, decisions and actions are clear and tracked.
- Prepare decision papers, performance dashboards and programme insights for senior leadership.
- Maintain programme artefacts including integrated plans, RAID logs, lessons learnt reports.
- Support the KPI performance reporting to communicate Programme performance to senior leadership.
Risk, Issue & Change Control
- Manage the Programme Risk Register with the Programme Manager, ensuring controls, ownership and mitigations are clearly defined and followed up.
- Identify emerging risks and issues early, escalate where required and coordinate cross-functional resolution.
- Support controlled change across processes, decisions and operational practices in line with Anglo governance.
Delivery Sprints & Problem-Solving
- Lead short, targeted pieces of work to resolve priority cross-functional problems.
- Structure complex issues into clear problems, options and recommendations.
- Facilitate workshops and working groups to diagnose issues, agree solutions and drive implementation.
- Produce senior-quality implementation plans and follow-through on actions.
Process Design & Readiness Development
- Support design, documentation and embedding of core business processes required for safe and reliable scale-up across the value chain.
- Ensure effective adoption of new processes and monitor with feedback loops.
- Work with functional leads to ensure readiness activities (people, processes, systems, governance, customer, product) are identified, planned and tracked.
- Support integration of the Seeding Programme with wider Anglo American functions and systems, balancing Programme pace with Group standards.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communication
- Build strong working relationships with SLT members and functional teams across the Programme.
- Influence and engage effectively across different geographies, functions and seniority levels.
- Provide clear, timely and structured communication across the programme.
- Support cross-functional workshops, readiness planning, and information coordination.
- Role-model collaboration, transparency and disciplined follow-through.
Qualifications
Qualifications:
- Degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management or related field
- MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner and/or PMQ (or equivalent project/programme management qualification)
- Experience within mining, energy, infrastructure or capital-intensive programmes (desirable)
- Experience in business and operational readiness (desirable)
Technical Knowledge:
- Understanding of integrated planning, governance routines and cross-functional delivery.
- Experience in change management and effective deployment of processes
- Knowledge of operational readiness principles and business process definition.
- Familiarity with controls-based risk management
- Experience in environments with ambiguity and evolving structure.
- Strong capabilities in stakeholder engagement across different geographies, disciplines and seniority levels.
- Awareness of how to integrate programmes with wider business systems and governance frameworks.
Additional Information
Who we are:
We aim to lead the industry by pursuing ever safer and more responsible ways of working, demonstrating integrity and showing care and respect for people and the planet. That means we are constantly seeking new opportunities to mine and process our products sustainably, using less water, less energy and more precise extraction technologies. As the custodians of coal and other precious natural resources – diamonds (through De Beers), copper, platinum and other precious metals, iron ore and nickel – our extraordinary teams work safely and collaboratively, with the utmost consideration for local communities, our customers and the world at large.
How we are committed to your safety:
Nothing is more important to us than ensuring you return home safely after a day’s work. To make that happen, we have the most rigorous safety standards in the industry. Not only that, we’re also continually investing in new technologies – from drones to data analytics – that are helping to make mining safer.
Inclusion and Diversity:
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.
How to apply:
To apply for this role, please complete our online application form. You will have the opportunity to upload your CV and other relevant documentation as part of the process.
