Programme Coordinator

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 Coordinator to play a key role in supporting the successful delivery of the Accelerated Seeding Programme (ASP), a strategic commercial programme focused on accelerating business growth, improving delivery capability and embedding effective ways of working across the organisation.

Working closely with the Programme Manager, functional leads and senior stakeholders, you will coordinate programme activities, support governance and planning processes, maintain reporting and performance information, and help ensure workstreams remain aligned to programme objectives.

This is an excellent opportunity for an organised and detail-oriented individual looking to develop their career within programme management, PMO, business transformation or operational delivery.

Your duties will include:

Programme Delivery & Coordination

• Maintain integrated programme schedules and monitor progress against milestones and deliverables.
• Coordinate updates from functional teams including Commercial, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Finance and Agronomy.
• Support day-to-day coordination of programme activities across ASP workstreams.
• Maintain programme plans, milestones, dependencies and action trackers.
• Track progress against agreed deliverables and escalate concerns to the Programme Manager.
• Prepare reports and presentations for Programme Boards, Steering Committees and leadership meetings.
• Track programme risks, issues, actions and dependencies and follow up with owners.
• Support implementation and transition activities.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, follow-up actions, sprint and tranche planning activities.

Functional Project Management Support

• Provide project coordination support to functional workstream leads.
• Assist functions with developing project plans and delivery schedules.
• Gather workstream updates and consolidate programme reporting.
• Support dependency mapping, action tracking and milestone monitoring.
• Highlight delivery risks and ensure templates and standards are consistently applied.

Governance and Planning

• Prepare governance packs, meeting materials and reports.
• Maintain Risks, Assumptions, Issues & Dependencies (RAID) decision logs.
• Record actions and decisions from governance forums.
• Support programme assurance, readiness reviews, change requests and documentation.

Reporting & Planning

• Produce weekly and monthly reporting dashboards.
• Consolidate information from functional workstreams.
• Update programme schedules and reporting tools.
• Monitor programme metrics and KPIs.
• Support reports for Programme Boards and Steering Committees and maintain data quality.

Stakeholder & Change Management

• Build effective working relationships with programme stakeholders.
• Coordinate cross-functional meetings and workshops.
• Support communication and engagement activities.
• Follow up on actions and commitments and promote collaboration across functions.

Continuous Improvement & Capability Building

• Support the development and maintenance of programme templates and tools.
• Contribute to improving programme processes and ways of working.
• Capture lessons learned, best practices and benefits tracking information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Project / Programme / Business Management, Finance, Engineering or Supply Chain.

Technical Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Experience supporting projects, programmes or PMO activities.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders and workstreams.
• Experience maintaining project plans, reports and trackers.
• Strong organisational and administration skills.
• Advanced Microsoft Projects (or similar), Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Teams skills.
• Supports others in understanding and applying key programme coordination tools, processes and standards.
• PMO governance and reporting processes; project and programme management principles; programme plans, milestones, dependencies, RAID framework, issue, action and decision logs; assurance, readiness reviews, change requests, reporting dashboards, metrics and KPIs; experience in mining, resources, finance or large corporate environments

Desirable

• Experience within mining, engineering, construction, infrastructure, supply chain or large corporate environments.
• Experience supporting transformation or change programmes.

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.