Operational Excellence & Change Leader

Affinity Water

Hatfield

Hybrid

GBP 63,000 - 77,000

Full time

4 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus
Pension scheme
Wellbeing centre
26-30 days leave
Family benefits
Volunteering days
Life assurance
Disability confident

Job summary

Affinity Water is seeking a Change & Innovation Partner to drive strategic change within its Transformation team. The role focuses on delivering a flagship Operational Excellence programme and shaping business cases for investment, while building a roadmap aligned to objectives and customer value.

The successful candidate will partner with field service, workload planning, and operations to prioritise initiatives, manage governance and budgets, and deliver measurable benefits across the

Qualifications

  • Experience delivering business change and transformation projects.
  • Experience developing business cases and investment proposals.
  • Experience shaping programmes from concept through mobilisation.
  • Ability to influence senior stakeholders in a complex operation.
  • Experience defining future-state operating models and translating into programmes.
  • Strong project management with Agile and/or Waterfall delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the Operational Excellence programme from planning to delivery.
  • Develop and mobilise change programmes with measurable benefits.
  • Collaborate with operational leaders to define problems and outcomes.
  • Manage governance, budgets, risks and dependencies.
  • Support continuous improvement within Transformation Centre of Excellence.

Skills

Stakeholder management
Project management
Change management
Business case development
Benefits realisation
Agile delivery
Waterfall delivery
Strategy alignment

Job description

Affinity Water is seeking a Change & Innovation Partner to drive strategic change within its Transformation team. The role focuses on delivering a flagship Operational Excellence programme and shaping business cases for investment, while building a roadmap aligned to objectives and customer value.

The successful candidate will partner with field service, workload planning, and operations to prioritise initiatives, manage governance and budgets, and deliver measurable benefits across the

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