Circa £50k dependent on skills & experience
Full time/37 hrs a week
Location: Managing a programme across the Anglian region, your based location will be Peterborough, Thorpe Wood House.
Hybrid Working - 2 days per week in office
Personal private health care
Virtual GP service for you and your household
Double-matched pension
Life assurance at 8 times salary
Here in Water Optimisation, our purpose is to develop solutions to current and future problems, that result in our people, processes and assets working in the most effective way, maximising benefits or reducing costs with the overall aim of making Water better for everyone.
We aim to do this by working collaboratively with our colleagues and actively seeking out new opportunities and innovations alongside consistent strong programme delivery. Whilst we pursue these opportunities, health, safety and wellbeing are always at the forefront of our minds with our people being what matters most.
What you’ll be doing:
Working in the Water Optimisation programme team, this role will assure the successful delivery of capital investment programmes in Optimisation and Water Supply Maintenance to allow Anglian Water to meet its strategic objectives and performance commitments. You will work closely with delivery teams to assure governance procedures are met and provide insightful programme information with recommendations to governance groups and wider WBS stakeholders to allow tactical and strategic decisions to be made.
You will need to apply rigorous business processes and methodologies to ensure effective control and complete visibility of the progress and associated risks to delivering the capital programmes.
Within this role you will develop, assure, monitor and refine the delivery profile of the programmes, making recommendations of remedial action or re-profiling as required to meet programme goals.
A key element of the role is to provide cradle to grave visibility of cost and deliverables and report to Project Delivery Managers and other stakeholders. You will also be managing the approval of key governance milestones at project and programme level and associated change processes with the delivery teams.
What does it take to be successful in this role?
- Proven track record of success within a programme and cost management environment
- Attention to detail and happy working with numbers
- Investment planning
- Have an exploring mindset and be proactive in developing solutions to overcome problems
- Track record in managing stakeholder groups, building trust and maintaining excellent working relationships.
- Making balanced decisions and managing risk
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
- Personal private health care including physiotherapy
- 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
- 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service + ability to swap religious holiday
- Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Bonus scheme
- Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
- Life Assurance at 8 times your salary
- Personal Accident cover – up to 5 times your salary
- Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
- An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family including enhanced maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave policies.
Inclusion at Anglian Water:
Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community’s Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network.
Closing date: 06/08/2025
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