Principal, Integrated Planning; Operations Crop Nutrients Strategy & Business Development

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 maximise 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.

• 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…