Principal, Integrated Planning (Operations)

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 and many micronutrients that are essential to plant growth. It allows farmers to maximize their crop yield, increase quality and improve soil structure with one simple product.

The Principal, Integrated Planning (Operations) leads and owns integrated demand and supply planning across the commercial organisation, establishing and operating a robust fit-for-purpose ISOP process that aligns commercial demand with supply, logistics, and operational capability.

The role translates commercial strategy into executable plans, ensuring effective demand forecasting, volume flow, and inventory positioning to support market growth, seasonal demand, and customer requirements. It drives planning discipline, improves cost-to-serve, and enables data-driven decision-making across the end-to-end value chain. Key responsibilities include:

• Design, implement, and lead the Integrated Sales & Operations Planning (ISOP) process.
• Establish planning governance, cadence, and inputs to ensure consistent alignment between demand, supply, and commercial priorities.
• Own the development of integrated demand and supply plans, including scenario modelling and trade-off analysis to support decision-making.
• Lead demand planning aligned to seasonal application windows, regional sales plans, and market development priorities.
• Ensure demand plans are robust, realistic, and aligned with operational capability.
• Translate commercial strategy (pricing, volume, and market priorities) into actionable demand, inventory, and supply plans.
• Support product allocation and volume planning aligned to commercial priorities and supply constraints.
• Act as a key interface between commercial and operational teams to ensure alignment between plan and execution.
• Coordinate supply and input requirement planning to ensure alignment with demand and production capabilities.
• Identify and manage risks related to supply constraints, throughput, and operational limitations.
• Drive optimisation of cost-to-serve through improved planning assumptions, inventory positioning, and alignment across the value chain.
• Ensure planning reflects customer segmentation, strategic accounts, and route-to-market priorities.
• Support differentiated service levels through appropriate inventory and supply planning decisions.
• Provide visibility of trade-offs between service, cost, and supply availability.
• Develop integrated volume and distribution plans in collaboration with the Logistics Manager, ensuring alignment between demand, supply, and logistics execution.
• Ensure planning outputs are realistic and executable within logistics constraints, including shipping and warehousing capacity.
• Collaborate to support efficient product flow and service delivery, particularly during peak demand periods.
• Define and monitor key planning KPIs (forecast accuracy, service performance, volume delivery, inventory levels).
• Provide structured insights and recommendations to improve planning effectiveness and mitigate risks.
• Embed consistency, discipline, and transparency across planning processes.
• Identify and implement improvements across ISOP, demand planning, and integrated planning processes.
• Establish scalable and fit-for-purpose planning frameworks aligned to business growth.
• Drive adoption of tools, dashboards, and standardised approaches to planning.
• Support planning readiness for growth and future portfolio expansion.
• Ensure planning frameworks are flexible and scalable to accommodate increased product complexity over time.

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business administration, operations management, agricultural economics or related field
• Postgraduate qualification in supply chain / operations, Business or strategy, preferred 
• Desirable: CPIM (Certified in Planning & Inventory Management), CSCP (Certified Supply Chain Professional) or Lean / Continuous Improvement certification (e.g. Lean Practitioner, Six Sigma Green Belt)

Technical Knowledge:

• Strong knowledge of S&OP / ISOP frameworks, including implementation and governance
• Deep understanding of demand forecasting, supply planning, and inventory management principles
• Knowledge of end-to-end supply chain processes, including production, processing, and logistics coordination
• Understanding of cost-to-serve drivers and operational trade-offs across supply chains
• Awareness of seasonal demand dynamics and planning in agricultural or similar industries
• Knowledge of commercial planning interfaces, including pricing, volume planning, and market allocation
• Understanding of input/material planning and production constraints in a vertically integrated or resource-based business
• Familiarity with logistics and distribution planning (shipping, warehousing, capacity constraints)
• Strong capability in data analysis, scenario modelling, and performance tracking
• Experience working with planning systems, ERP platforms, CRM tools (e.g., Salesforce), and data visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau) to enable end-to-end planning integration

Technical Skills

• Advanced capability in building and operating integrated demand and supply plans, ensuring alignment across commercial, production, and logistics constraints
• Strong expertise in implementing and running ISOP processes, including structuring inputs, facilitating alignment, and driving outputs to decision
• Ability to translate commercial plans into executable operational plans, including volume flow, allocation, and inventory positioning
• Proficient in scenario modelling and trade-off analysis, supporting decision-making under uncertainty and constraint
• Ability to design and embed practical planning frameworks, governance, and cadences in a scaling organisation
• Strong capability in interpreting performance data and generating actionable insights to improve planning outcomes
• Experience in developing and maintaining planning outputs and dashboards to support visibility and decision-making
• Ability to align planning outputs with logistics constraints and execution realities, ensuring plans are deliverable
• Skilled in identifying inefficiencies and improving planning processes, with a focus on simplification, scalability, and impact
• Experience working with planning systems, ERP tools, and data visualisation platforms to support planning accuracy and transparency

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.  

What we Offer: When you join Anglo American, you can expect to enjoy a competitive salary and benefits package. But more than this, you’ll find yourself in an environment where the opportunities for learning and growth are second to none. From technical training to leadership programs, we bring out the best in our people. There are plenty of opportunities to move onwards and upwards too. We’re a large, successful multinational company – and we’re still growing all the time. 

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