Long Term Asset Plan Lead

Circa £60k , salary depending on skills & experience

Permanent, 37 Hours a week

Location:
Huntingdon or Peterborough - Hybrid Working 1-3 days in office weekly

Anglian Water offers flexible hybrid working, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office, ideally working from the office an average of two days per week. Your base location will ideally be in Huntingdon or Peterborough.

Long Term Asset Plan Lead

We’re looking for an experienced and visionary leader to drive the technical development of Anglian Water’s Long Term asset plan, ensuring it shapes the future of our business and delivers value for our customers, stakeholders, and the environment.

This senior role will lead the development of our Long-Term Asset Plan, previously known as our Long Term Delivery Strategy (LTDS), ensuring it is technically robust, strategically aligned, and underpins key business decisions. Acting as the focal point for long-term planning, you’ll bring together diverse work streams, fill gaps, and define the ambition, pathways, and trade-offs needed to achieve our strategic goals.

You will:

• Lead and coordinate the technical development of our long-term asset plan, ensuring it aligns with regulatory requirements, business plans, and wider strategic objectives.

• Provide clear insight into long-term risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to inform decision-making and enable constructive discussions with stakeholders and customers.

• Ensure our long term asset plan provides a clear ‘golden thread’ linking our five-year business plans to our long-term ambition through adaptive, resilient planning.

• Build and lead a community of specialists and strategic leaders to deliver this vision.

We’re seeking someone with the ability to deliver complex, technical work streams; think strategically and creatively in a changing landscape; communicate complex concepts with clarity; and influence senior stakeholders internally and externally.

If you’re ready to shape the future of water services in our region and help us deliver on our purpose, we’d love to hear from you.

• Define and maintain the link between our purpose, vision, and strategic plans such as our Drainage and water recycling Management Plan (DWMP), and Water Resources Management Plan (WRMP) and long term Water Industry National environment programme (WINEP)

• Help co-ordinate the development of our ambition, strategy, and response to future challenges.

• Identify gaps, risks, and trade-offs, providing clear data, analysis, and recommendations.

• Deliver complex technical work streams, applying investment planning, options appraisal, and adaptive planning techniques.

• Communicate technical outputs effectively to inform decisions and engage external stakeholders.

• Prepare and present strategic papers and clear, evidence-based narratives for senior colleagues and external audiences.

• Lead the programme of work to produce a robust, compliant, and aligned long term asset plan, drawing out submission requirements as part of regulatory business planning as needed.

• Interpret and apply regulatory guidance, ensuring consistency with price review and other strategic plans (WRMP, DWMP, WINEP).

• Oversee technical method statements, appoint and manage external consultants and secondees, and coordinate internal stakeholders.

• Ensure our long term asset plan provides a clear, credible strategy to meet long-term commitments and targets.

• Produce and present influential, evidence-based narratives for regulatory audiences.

• Integrate long-term planning across the business, ensuring strategies support informed decisions.

• Highlight strategic risks, opportunities, and trade-offs to senior leaders.

• Develop materials to support internal and external discussions on long-term strategy and planning.

• Promote innovation and best value by embedding new approaches and supporting business leads.

• Educated to degree level (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline.

• Proven leadership experience, with the ability to lead and influence a diverse community of stakeholders.

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