Commercial Ops Planning Advisor at Anglo American

Job Description:

As our Commercial Ops Planning Advisor of your responsibilities will include but not limited to:

Safety, Health, and Environment

• Prioritize safety and health in all team interactions, leading by example to achieve zero harm and prevent fatalities.
• Lead by example, fostering a safety-first culture.
• Encourage open reporting of unsafe behaviours without fear of consequences.
• Identify and address risks in the workplace using discipline-specific plans and operational risk management systems.
• Use operational risk management systems.
• Monitor critical control performance and integrate them into daily work practices.
• Establish and maintain Safety and Health systems within the work area.
• Conduct safety interactions, regular visual inspections, and workplace audits.
• Gather data for safety reports and KPIs.
• Report and rectify deficiencies.

Conduct regular safety audits to ensure compliance and address any issues.

• Active participation in VFLs, Risk Assessments and close-out of Safety Actions.

Performance and Delivery

Planning and Budgeting:

• Work side-by-side with discipline managers and superintendents to develop budgets, e.g., by providing insights into financial data and consolidating inputs.
• Provide business case modelling support for on-site SIB capital and recommend capital expenditure decisions to the disciplines.

The Work: Key Outputs and Accountabilities

• Support the preparation of financial forecasts, considering past performance and forward-looking risks and opportunities.
• Collate and discuss discipline input into OMS.

Risk Management:

• Collaborate with discipline to develop a risk register, proactively providing a financial evaluation of risk mitigation strategies (costs and capital).
• Discuss risk input with CM, enabling transparent upward communication.

Reporting and Controls:

• Serve as a contact point for financial information and detailed advice for disciplines.
• Provide and discuss discipline-specific financial reports.
• Support tracking discipline financial performance against the plan, enriching financial reports with operational commentary discussed with disciplines.
• Facilitate in-depth discussion of deviations from plan, identifying and communicating operational root causes to financial performance.

Commercial Continuous Improvement:

• Proactively identify commercial improvement opportunities, enabling effective partnering.
• Support implementing commercial improvement initiatives (e.g., dashboard roll-out).

Site Performance Improvement:

• Collaborate with discipline management to identify cost-improvement opportunities.
• Gain a deep understanding of the underlying operational processes and value drivers of discipline.
• Prepare in-depth financial data analysis and business cases to support improvement efforts.

On-site Integration:

• Monitor timely and quality GSS and financial CoE delivery towards discipline.

Sustainability and Social:

• Drive the delivery of sustainability activities relevant to the discipline and set out in the Life of Asset Plan to improve sustainability performance over time.
• Put sufficient physical and financial resources in place and coordinate the delivery of Sustainable Mining Plan commitments relevant to the discipline.
• Manage compliance with environmental and social requirements relevant to the discipline, including stakeholder commitments.
• Identify environmental and social risks triggered by or impacting discipline and propose mitigation techniques to incorporate into the asset risk management approach.
• Identify environmental and social opportunities relevant to the work area and then introduce and monitor sustainability initiatives.
• Foster awareness of environmental and social sustainability within the team and consider the full impact of decisions.
• Participate in stakeholders' engagements as relevant to the discipline and act consistently with sustainability expectations.

Compliance:

• Manage the teams' compliance within the work area with external (legislative, regulatory, and permitting) local requirements as a minimum level of site performance.
• Adhere to Anglo American compliance requirements and ensure teams' compliance within the work area.

This role is in Commercial (CML) NC department on a band 9 level reporting to MOP Specialists

Qualifications:

• Diploma in Business Accounting, Finance, Economics
• B-Degree in Business Accounting, Finance, Economics
• SA Drivers Licence

Technical Knowledge

• 3-5 years of experience in a commercial setting.
• Understand key value drivers within the discipline's value chain and interdependence of critical levers.
• Proficiency in the basics of project management.
• Awareness of new technologies and their impact on operational activities within the role’s scope.
• Knowledge of various tools and methodologies to improve business processes.
• Understand data policies, including privacy and safe handling of sensitive data.
• Awareness of critical digital tools and concepts, particularly those related to the AA infrastructure.
• Understand the digital landscape within operations.
• Knowledge of essential financial metrics and budgeting tools.
• Familiarity with legislative, statutory, and regulatory requirements.

Closing Date:

• 29 August, 2025