Strategic Projects Manager

Anglian Water Group; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal private health care

Generous pension

Virtual GP service

26 days annual leave

Life assurance

Personal accident cover

Family friendly policies

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Anglian Venture Holdings seeks an experienced project professional to shape early-stage concepts and deliver feasible, costed projects aligned with AVH’s growth strategy. You will coordinate cross-functional input, develop business cases, and ensure a smooth transition into detailed design or implementation.

You will work with the Strategic Growth Programme Lead to prioritise, plan, and deliver projects on time and within budget, while maintaining safety and wellbeing as a core priority.

Qualifications

• Proven track record in project management and delivery in regulated or commercial environments.
• Familiar with project governance, stage-gates, risk registers and reporting.
• Professional project management qualification or equivalent.
• Operational water/waste water experience.

Responsibilities

• Translate strategic objectives into engineering requirements, constraints and technical solutions.
• Manage the project development lifecycle, delivering outputs on time and budget with safety in mind.
• Develop and own the project programme, coordinating stakeholders and communicating changes.
• Input into risk and opportunity registers and implement mitigation strategies as required.
• Produce monthly progress reports and present to Strategy and Development team.

Skills

Project management

Systems engineering

Risk assessment

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Education

PM qualification or equivalent

Job description

Anglian Venture Holdings (AVH) is the investment and management vehicle responsible for Anglian Water Group's commercial businesses across the UK and Ireland. AVH creates value through delivery of innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions, O&M and digital services in the municipal, industrial and commercial water sectors. This role manages the development and delivery of projects aligned to AVH's medium to long-term growth strategy. It combines technical knowledge, problem solving, and project management to turn ideas into feasible, costed and deliverable solutions. You will shape early-stage concepts, undertake feasibility work, coordinate cross-functional input, support the development of business cases, and ensure successful transition into detailed design or implementation. You will work closely with the Strategic Growth Programme Lead (SGPL) to ensure projects are prioritised, planned, and delivered on time and budget, creating value for AVH in the process.,

• Translate strategic objectives into engineering requirements, constraints and technical solutions
• Conduct or oversee; engineering assessments, modelling, calculations and simulations, risk assessments, system design and integration concepts
• Manage the project development lifecycle and deliver outputs on time, on budget and most importantly, with safety and wellbeing front of mind
• Develop and own the project programme, ensuring key internal and external stakeholders are bought in, and programmes are updated frequently, with significant changes communicated, governed and approved as required
• Work with the SGPL to identify resources and budget requirements to enable phases of development and delivery to be executed.
• Input into project risk and opportunity registers and take ownership of mitigation / realisation strategies and escalade risks as required
• Apply technical and commercial rigour to projects and tasks that require accurate and timely delivery and decision making
• Produce timely progress reports on a monthly basis and present internally to the Strategy and Development team.
  A proven track record of project management and delivery experience in a regulated or commercial environment
• Familiar with key stages of project enabling and development; surveys, environmental considerations, land, planning, and grid
• Professional project management qualification or equivalent
• Operational water / waste water experience
• Experience in managing engineering projects across part of, or full lifecycle, and familiar with project governance, stage-gates, risk registers, and reporting
• Analytical thinker - able to work logically through complex or ambiguous problems
• Strong written communication skills and confidence in presenting
• An understanding of customer needs and aspirations

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Generous double match pension - contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%
• 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• 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 and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.