Head of Strategic Investment Management

Apply locations: Peterborough, Huntingdon

Time type: Full time

Posted on: Posted 9 Days Ago

Time left to apply: End Date: January 6, 2025 (17 days left to apply)

Job requisition id: R29273

Circa £100k, salary depending on skills and experience

Peterborough / Huntingdon - Flexibility of Home working

Permanent, 37 Hours a week

Benefits: Car allowance, 30 days annual leave, double match pension (up to 6%), annual bonus, private healthcare

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough, but you'll also be working at Lancaster House in Huntingdon. You would be expected to work in the office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Are you ready to make a lasting impact on the future of water supply and environmental protection in the East of England?

Anglian Water is undertaking an ambitious program of major infrastructure development to support the delivery of its Water Resources, Drainage and Wastewater, and Environment plans, as well as broader long-term strategic objectives.

This is a leadership role within the strategic asset management directorate with significant responsibility for overseeing the production of forward-looking investment plans both for in-AMP delivery and future business plans including Price Review 2029 (PR29), as well as owning the continuous improvement of the governance framework for the delivery of investments.

This role ensures that Anglian Water's investment plans are best value and have clear alignment from our overarching purpose, through strategic planning frameworks, to investment level decision making, with appropriate mechanisms in place to estimate costs and benefits. With overarching accountability for visibility of future investments and the regulatory interface to secure the associated funding, this role is part of a network with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders across directorates, and provides integration and coordination between business streams, Finance and Regulation and the broader Anglian Water business.

As the focal point for investment management within the business, the role ensures our plans stand up to external scrutiny and are financeable as well as deliverable, in addition to ensuring that (once secured) the expenditure is effectively managed via a stage gate process to meet business and reporting requirements.

What you'll be doing:

1. Responsibility for cocreation of business plan expenditure for 5 year price reviews, oversight of the process of creation of investments (linkage to strategic planning frameworks like Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP), Drainage and Wastewater Management Plan (DWMP), Water Industry National Environment Programme (WINEP), supporting board engagement/approvals, responding to scrutiny of the plan via query processes, as well as subsequent appeal where necessary)
2. Providing evidence and input to support the development of supporting narrative in regulatory submissions
3. Work with other teams in particular Regulation and Asset Delivery Planning to ensure clarity of accountabilities & responsibilities, making sure that interfaces do not cause confusion or re-work
4. Coordinate external assurance of all aspects of investment programme development
5. Conversion of business plan determinations into annual and 5 yearly budgets provided to finance teams, optimising portfolio allocations and profiles to maximise company performance
6. Responsibility for continuous improvement of corporate governance of investment delivery including mandatory deliverables at stage gates, aligning processes to contractual requirements
7. Work with the Programme Delivery Partner (PDP) on assurance of the correct implementation of corporate governance
8. Design and implementation of consistent decision making (optioneering) processes to evaluate risk and identify best value alternative options (Risk Opportunity and Value)

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

• 30 days annual leave - rising with length of service
• Car Allowance
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

What does it take to be successful?

• Significant post qualification experience in asset management, engineering or front line operations
• Professional qualification / registration with relevant body (e.g. CEng, IAM)
• Proven understanding of business planning and use of frameworks such as the HM Treasury Green Book 5 case model, or equivalent business case development process for multi-billion programmes
• Experience in the development of regulatory requirements associated with environmental, product and service quality
• Leadership in a complex multi stakeholder environment
• Proven risk management skills.
• Strong relationship skills, and experience presenting to Executive teams.

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we're proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you're passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we'd love to hear from you.

Closing date: 5 January 2025

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.

To apply, you'll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter - tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.

If you are offered a job with us, you'll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK.

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.