Programme Manager Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Posted 16 hours ago

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life assurance

Pension

Annual leave

Bonus up to 15%

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking a Programme Manager to lead, coordinate and deliver multiple capital maintenance and water recycling projects across East Anglia. The role focuses on ensuring on-time, on-budget delivery with quality outcomes while maintaining strong governance and stakeholder communication.

Location is within the East Anglia area (Lincoln, Peterborough, Huntingdon, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk, Colchester) with hybrid working.

Qualifications

• Engineering, Quantity Surveyor or similar degree qualification.
• Multi-disciplined construction experience.
• Proven track record of improved client relationships through project delivery.
• 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 projects to deliver on time, on budget and to quality.
• Ensure profitability, efficiency, and compliance with targets.
• Report to governance groups on programme performance.
• Identify risks and implement mitigations.
• Manage stakeholder relationships across client, supply chain and contractors.

Skills

Programme management

Construction management

Stakeholder relationships

Operations management

Budget control

Risk management

Education

Engineering degree

Quantity surveying

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

About Anglian Water

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.

Qualifications and Experience

• 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

Benefits

• 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 of service 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 wellbeing and 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 want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process.

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.

Closing date: 20 September 2026 #loveeverydrop

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