Head of Asset Management

Anglian Water Services Ltd; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 108,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Flexible working options

Private health care

Annual bonus

Life assurance

Job summary

Anglian Water Group is seeking a senior asset management leader to shape the long-term strategy and drive investment decisions across the Anglian Water region. You will build a clear view of asset health, strengthen data maturity and lead cross-functional collaboration to improve asset performance and resilience.

The role offers hybrid working with flexible location across the Anglian Water region and a starting package of £120,000 plus bonus and car allowance. Closing date applies.

Qualifications

• Experience in asset management or a related environment.
• Ability to think strategically and handle complexity.
• Strong collaboration and influence across teams.

Responsibilities

• Shape long-term asset management strategy aligned to priorities.
• Support investment decisions balancing performance, risk and value.
• Build view of asset health using data and insights.
• Strengthen asset data and turn information into insight.
• Develop and improve asset management framework, policies and standards.
• Drive continuous improvement and share best practices.
• Develop capability and confidence in asset management across the organisation.
• Build cross-boundary relationships with internal and external partners.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Relationship building

Evidence-based decisions

Clear communication

Job description

Starting from £120,000 + Bonus + Car Allowance Permanent / Full Time / 37 Hours per week Location Flexible Across the Anglian Water Region - Hybrid

What you’ll be doing:

• Shape our long‑term approach to asset management, connecting organisational priorities with the decisions we make about our assets.
• Support effective investment decisions, helping us balance performance, risk, resilience, affordability and long‑term value.
• Build a clear view of asset health and risk, using information and insight to inform priorities and choices.
• Strengthen asset data and intelligence, improving the quality and use of asset information and turning data into actionable insight to support asset health, risk and investment decisions.
• Strengthen our asset management framework, ensuring appropriate strategies, policies, processes and standards are in place.
• Drive continuous improvement, helping us learn from good practice and continually develop the way we manage our assets.
• Build capability, growing asset management knowledge, confidence and expertise across the organisation.
• Develop strong relationships, working across organisational boundaries and with external partners to achieve shared outcomes.

What we’re looking for

There isn’t one particular career path that will make you successful in this role. You may have developed your experience through asset management, engineering, operations, investment planning or another relevant environment. More important is your ability to think strategically, understand complex issues and bring people together to make good decisions. You’re likely to be someone who: brings a broad, whole‑system perspective is comfortable working with complexity and uncertainty builds trusted relationships and works collaboratively uses evidence and insight to support decision‑making can balance immediate priorities with longer‑term needs communicates clearly and influences effectively is curious, inclusive and committed to learning and improvement enjoys helping others develop their capability and confidence.

Why join Anglian Water?

This is an opportunity to have a real influence on how an organisation thinks about, invests in and manages its assets. This could be Enterprise wide or specific to one of our business streams. You’ll work with people from across the organisation, bringing together different perspectives and expertise. And you’ll have the scope to challenge established thinking, develop new approaches and help shape what excellent asset management looks like for the future.

Benefits

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays (increasing with length of service)
• Car allowance
• Flexible working options
• Private health care
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double‑matches contributions up to 7%
• Life assurance at eight times your salary
• Annual bonus
• Potential funded car allowance depending on evidenced business mileage
• Personal medical assessments
• Virtual GP service
• Cancer screening
• Financial wellbeing support and salary finance benefits
• Lifestyle savings including discounts on retail, travel and utilities
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Volunteer days

Inclusion at Anglian Water

We are proud signatories of the Social Mobility Pledge, Race at Work Charter and Armed Forces Covenant, and we’re a Disability Confident employer.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process.

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers.

We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

If you have a disability or long‑term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long‑term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team [e-mail]’

Closing Date: 22/11/26 #loveeverydrop! #LI-ZP1

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