Senior Project Manager

Anglian Water Group Ltd.; Lincoln, Peterborough, Huntingdon; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private health care

Life assurance 8x salary

Double‑matched pension

Bonus scheme

26 days leave

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Water is seeking an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, strategically important projects and smaller programmes across the organisation. The role is full-time with flexibility for part-time, based in Lincoln, Peterborough or Huntingdon with hybrid working requiring 2 days per week in the office.

You will develop robust business cases, define costs, benefits and outcomes, and manage budgets, risks and governance across multiple workstreams while

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading multiple, complex projects and programmes.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, with budget, risks and governance experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication across all levels.
• Proven ability to lead teams and drive change adoption across programmes.

Responsibilities

• Lead multiple strategically important projects from idea through delivery, transition and closure.
• Develop robust business cases with costs, benefits and outcomes.
• Create project plans, milestones and change-management activities.
• Manage budgets across operational and capital expenditure with controls.
• Identify risks and dependencies, escalating as required to governance.
• Build relationships with sponsors, senior stakeholders and delivery partners.
• Establish governance, reporting and communication across workstreams.

Job description

Salary: £50,202 to £65,000 depending on skills and experience Full-time, with flexibility for part‑time. 37 hours per week/permanent Location: Lincoln/Peterborough/Huntingdon - Hybrid Working 2 days p/w in office. Private health care Double‑matched pension Life assurance at 8 times salary Make a real impact through outstanding project delivery We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, strategically important projects and smaller programmes across Anglian Water. This is an opportunity to manage initiatives spanning people, processes, data and systems, turning business challenges into clearly defined projects and delivering outcomes that create lasting value. You’ll work closely with sponsors, senior stakeholders, project teams and change professionals to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality. You’ll help our people understand, adopt and embed change, ensuring that the benefits of each project continue long after delivery. You’ll bring teams together, navigate complexity and create the clarity and momentum needed to turn ideas into successful outcomes.

What you’ll be doing

As our Senior Project Manager, you’ll:

• Lead multiple strategically important projects and initiatives from initial idea and definition through to delivery, transition and closure.
• Develop robust business cases, exploring potential solutions, capturing requirements and clearly defining costs, benefits and expected outcomes.
• Agree project deliverables with sponsors and create comprehensive project plans, work breakdown structures, milestones and change‑management activities.
• Manage project budgets across both operational and capital expenditure, maintaining strong financial controls.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating matters through the appropriate governance routes when required.
• Build trusted relationships with sponsors, senior stakeholders, business leads, suppliers and delivery partners.
• Establish effective project governance, reporting and communication across multiple workstreams and stakeholder groups.
• Coach and develop colleagues, helping to strengthen project and change‑management capability across the wider organisation.

Leading people through change

Successful delivery depends on bringing people with us. Working alongside sponsors and change professionals, you’ll apply structured change‑management principles to help colleagues adopt new processes, systems and ways of working. You’ll develop engagement and change plans, carry out impact and readiness assessments, anticipate resistance and make sure that business areas are properly prepared for transition. You’ll also help coordinate the volume and timing of change, ensuring that activity is manageable for our operational and front‑line teams.

What does it take to be successful?

You’ll be an accomplished project professional with significant experience of leading multiple, complex projects and workstreams. You’ll be comfortable working with ambiguity, balancing competing priorities and influencing stakeholders at every level. You’ll bring demonstrable experience of:

• Proven experience leading complex projects from business case development through to delivery, governance and benefits realisation.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, with experience managing budgets, risks, issues, dependencies and project controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, collaborate and communicate complex information clearly across all levels.
• Experience leading teams, managing resources and delivering successful change adoption across multiple concurrent projects or workstreams.
• Able to work effectively in a fast‑paced environment, balancing priorities whilst driving outcomes and sustainable business value.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one 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.

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• 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
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeingand lifestyle.

Closing date: Monday 5th October #LI-LC1

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.

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.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.