Position Summary:
The purpose of the Operational Planning Global IM Lead role is to provide specialist support and leadership, oversee operational planning and implementation for Global Information Management Operations while ensuring consistency with the Anglo Operating Model principles to drive sustainable business results.
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify emerging trends and leverage industry best practices to establish benchmarks and continually enhance operational planning processes.
- Ensure that planning processes are stable and executed in line with corporate requirements and planning timetables.
- Participate and contribute towards the establishment of a project plan, specifications, and resource requirements of the AAOM site implementation in order to complete broadly defined assignments and achieve desired results.
- Monitor activities and report weekly progress on key initiatives to internal and external stakeholders, as required.
- Assist in development of new solutions, tools and processes that will assist in performance measurement, reporting and visibility of issues.
- Ensure that the implementation processes adhere to quality standards by performing gap analysis and critical issue resolution.
- Enable sustainability of AAOM Operational Planning across IM teams.
- Facilitate co-development of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and other metrics, with team leaders, to drive success in this space.
- Oversee development of IM team Operating Master Schedules aligned to Global IM Operating Master Schedule including validating work packages in OMS, aligning on optimised OMS with discipline managers, and reviewing and validating OMS.
- Shape the culture of the team through action, presence, and reinforcement of behaviors.
- Design and lead Operational Planning process, routines, tools, and outputs for Global IM.
- Ensure efficient interactions across functional teams for any trends, drivers and takeaways in a clear and concise manner.
- Feed lessons learned, and knowledge gained back to Business Improvement teams.
- Facilitate integrated implementation of the Operational Planning Module of AAOM, across all Global IM.
Required Education & Experience:
- Change Management certification
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Management / Business / Computer Science or related technical field required.
- The IM Regional systems
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- IM standards, policies, procedures
- Effective team, contractor, and vendor management to ensure resource utilization across the portfolio
- The specific IM field, controls and risk mitigation
- Business Unit plans and initiatives
- Programme management knowledge and experience
- Lean Six Sigma Certification
- Anglo Operating Model Knowledge