About the @one Alliance
The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water’s capital investment programme.
We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we’ve ever delivered before. We’ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes.
We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We’re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression.
With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer’s expectations will come under greater scrutiny.
We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen?
About Sweco
Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future.
Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable.
We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients’ most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future.
To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week.
Are you a visionary commercial leader with a proven track record of delivering strategic objectives in a collaborative environment? Are you ready to make a significant impact on one of the UK’s largest and most innovative alliance?
Anglian Water’s @one Alliance is seeking a Head of Commercial to lead, innovate, and deliver exceptional value in our ambitious and dynamic infrastructure delivery programme.
About the Role
As Head of Commercial, you’ll be at the heart of driving the commercial success of a designated Business Unit looking after a portfolio of projects of between £600m - £750m over a five year period. . Reporting to the Delivery or Commercial Director, you’ll manage all aspects of the commercial function, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives while fostering collaboration, innovation, and value-driven outcomes.
Key responsibilities include:
Strategic Leadership: Develop and execute commercial strategies that enhance performance and align with our outperformance targets.
Performance Management: Oversee the commercial performance of the Business Unit, ensuring effective cost assurance, KPI reporting, and governance.
Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners to deliver seamless integration across the supply chain.
Procurement & Supply Chain Management: Drive procurement innovation and ensure supply chain performance aligns with programme goals.
Team Leadership & Development: Lead a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, care, and continuous improvement.
Health, Safety & Wellbeing: Champion a culture of health, safety, and wellbeing across the team and supply chain.
What We’re Looking For
We’re looking for an experienced leader who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will bring:
A degree-level education, with significant experience in a senior leadership role.
Proven expertise in project and programme delivery within construction or utilities.
A strong commercial acumen with experience in contract management, procurement, and estimating.
Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills.
A track record of leading successful teams and delivering business objectives at a strategic level.
The ability to drive innovation, improve processes, and deliver exceptional results.
Why Join Us?
Anglian Water’s @one Alliance is at the forefront of delivering some of the UK’s most exciting and challenging water and water recycling projects. By joining us, you’ll be part of a collaborative team working to secure the region’s water future, with a commitment to sustainability, innovation, and excellence.
Ready to Lead the Future of Commercial in the Water industry?
If you’re ready to make a difference and lead the commercial success of one of the UK’s largest alliances, we’d love to hear from you.
@OneAlliance vision
A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to:
Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance.
@OneAlliance Values
To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we:
Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring
The Anglian Water @one Alliance. Nine partners, endless opportunities.
Let’s transform society together at Sweco.
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
It’s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone.
Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity.
We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role.
If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. “reasonable adjustments”) with the application process?
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Please note: we reserve the right to close vacancies before the advertised closing date.
Sweco UK&I have an internal resourcing team who are responsible for all recruiting activity. We have a Preferred Supplier List of trusted agencies who we work with on those “hard to fill” roles.
We have defined processes for recruitment applications and it is company policy not to accept speculative CVs. Any speculative CVs received into the business (whether to a manager or member of the resourcing team) will become the property of Sweco and the agency will not be eligible for an introductory fee.
Our Preferred Supplier List was reviewed in November 2024 and we are not looking to add any additional agencies. We’ll be reviewing the PSL again at the end of 2025 and non-compliance with the above statements could be detrimental to you having the opportunity to be included.
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