Programme Manager

Anglian Water Services; Colchester; Hybrid; GBP 68,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life assurance

Personal accident cover

Pension scheme

26 days annual leave

Family-friendly policies

Bonus up to 15%

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water Services is seeking Programme Managers to support capital maintenance, S101A and water recycling across the East Anglia region, including Colchester. Hybrid working is available for effectively leading multiple project streams to deliver on time, cost and quality targets.

You will report into governance groups, manage risks, build business cases and coordinate with Client stakeholders, supply chain and internal teams to realise the programme’s strategic objectives.

Qualifications

• Engineering, Quantity Surveyor or similar degree.
• Multi-disciplined construction experience.
• Operations management across building disciplines with commercial, contractual and HR skills.
• Proven track record of improved client relationships through successful project delivery.
• Achievement of improved safety performance and industrial relations management.
• Engaging and retaining high quality staff to achieve high performance levels.
• Proven history in effective programme management.
• Ability to influence a range of stakeholders including external groups.
• Broad understanding of the regulatory and operating environment.
• Proven short-, medium- and long-term planning experience across wide areas of the business.
• Drives continuous improvement of process and service.

Responsibilities

• Lead and oversee multiple project executions, ensuring profitability, efficiency and compliance with targets.
• Report to governance groups and measure programmes against cost, benefit, performance, delivery and timescales.
• Assess opportunities, identify dependencies and generate appropriate programme of work.
• Identify risks and implement mitigation measures across programme outputs.
• Report progress and communicate business initiatives and investments to stakeholders.
• Develop business cases, form project groups/workstreams and track performance.

Skills

Engineering degree

Project management

Stakeholder management

Construction experience

Safety leadership

Staff management

Programme management

Regulatory awareness

Planning skills

Commercial awareness

Education

Engineering degree or related

Job description

Programme Manager

Location: Within the East Anglia area to including: Lincoln, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk and Colchester/ Hybrid

Contract: Permanent/Full time

Salary: circa £80,000 dependent on experience and skills plus business need car allowance

At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.

Who are we?

Here within Anglian Water, we collaborate with a number of alliance partners to provide the best water and water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies.

Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop are our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. Comprising of Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale and Kier, the IOS Alliance work together to concentrate on solutions across the water recycling and clean water asset base.

What will you be doing as our Programme Manager?

We are looking for a number of Programme Managers to work within teams focussed on capital maintenance, S101A and water recycling across the East Anglia area.

You’ll be responsible for leading and overseeing multiple project executions, ensuring profitability, efficiency, and compliance with corporate targets ensuring delivered to time, cost and quality measures. The role requires a strategic approach to project management, financial control, and resource allocation while maintaining strong relationships with Client stakeholders , supply chain, subcontractors, Internal functions and 3rd Party stakeholders.

You will be the lead in reporting into governance groups for ensuring that all programmes of work/efficiency targets are measured accordingly against targets in terms of cost, benefit, performance, efficiencies, delivery and timescales. This includes the project management expertise to be able to assess multiple opportunities, identify dependencies and generate appropriate programme of work.

This will lead on key initiatives, including programme managing and assuring the delivery of programmes of work and will be accountable for identifying risks to the programme outputs. Resolving conflicts and issues where necessary, to ensure that the appropriate mitigation measures are recommended and implemented.

You will report on the progress and communicate to stakeholders the specific business initiatives and investments that have been identified. You will identify future opportunities, prepare business cases, develop project groups/workstreams and track performance to ensure the overarching strategy and vision for the programme is realised.

A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours

• Engineering, Quantity Surveyor or similar Degree qualification
• Multi-disciplined construction experience
• Ideally extensive operations management experience across a broad spectrum of building disciplines with proven commercial, contractual and human resource management skills
• Proven track record of improved client relationships through successful project delivery
• Achievement of improved safety performance and industrial relations management
• Engaging and retaining high quality staff to achieve high performance levels.
• Proven history in effective programme management
• Ability to influence a range of stakeholders including external groups
• Broad understanding of the regulatory and operating environment
• Proven short-, medium- and long-term planning experience across wide areas of the business
• Drives continuous improvement of process and service

Why Anglian Water?

At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:

• Personal private health care
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Double-matched pension (maximum 7% employee/14% employer contribution)
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length ofservice and the ability to buy more
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay
• Bonus scheme – up to 15%
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeingand lifestyle.

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 20 September 2026

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