Programme Delivery Specialist

Overview

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:

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Degree in Engineering, Business, Project Management or related field
• MSP, PRINCE2 Practitioner and/or PMQ (or equivalent project/programme management qualification)
• Experience with in mining, energy, infrastructure or capital-intensive programmes (desirable)
• Experience in business and operational readiness (desirable)

• 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…