Programme Manager Storage Points in Peterborough

Location: Flexible across the Anglian Water Region (with flexible/hybrid working)

Salary: £50,000 - £58,000 per annum dependent on experience

Bringing focus, foresight and flow to storage delivery. As Programme Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the effective planning, control and delivery of a critical programme that underpins safe, resilient water supply for our customers. Reporting to the Enablement Lead, you’ll provide clear oversight of progress, risk and cost, bringing structure and momentum to a complex delivery environment. This is a role with real scope, requiring commercial awareness, confident stakeholder engagement and the ability to translate insight into action.

You’ll work across multiple teams, balancing immediate delivery pressures with longer-term programme objectives, helping shape how the Storage Point programme is planned, challenged and delivered.

• Programme oversight and control
  • Develop, manage and monitor the Storage Point programme, ensuring clear visibility of progress, risks, opportunities and financial impacts
  • Own and actively manage the programme Risk & Opportunity Log, working with delivery and enabling teams to identify, track and mitigate risks
  • Regularly interrogate and challenge project plans to ensure delivery remains realistic, aligned and on track
• Stakeholder collaboration
  • Build strong, trusted relationships with Storage Point Delivery Managers, planners and supporting teams
  • Identify and address deviations in delivery, construction sequencing, timelines and cost at job and parcel level
  • Provide clear, timely programme updates to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring impacts and dependencies are well understood
• Efficient delivery coordination
  • Maintain a programme-wide view to identify opportunities to bundle work, optimise sequencing and make best use of available resources
  • Collaborate closely with Water Supply and operational teams to align the Storage Point programme with annual maintenance plans
  • Promote efficient delivery approaches and proactive risk mitigation across all sites
• Programme refinement, reporting and improvement
  • Develop, monitor and refine the programme delivery profile to meet strategic, regulatory and local commitments
  • Recommend remedial actions or re-profiling where required to maintain efficient and effective delivery
  • Collate, analyse and present cost and schedule data in collaboration with performance teams
  • Produce clear, professional reporting with meaningful lead and lag indicators to support informed decision-making
  • Encourage constructive challenge to improve how the programme is planned and delivered

This role will suit someone who is comfortable operating with autonomy and accountability in a complex delivery environment.

• Proven experience in programme or project management, ideally within a regulated or asset-intensive environment
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, challenge and collaborate at all levels
• A commercial mindset, with experience managing cost, risk and programme performance
• A proactive, solution-focused approach, able to anticipate issues and drive momentum
• Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear insight

Experience within water, utilities or infrastructure delivery is advantageous, along with familiarity with programme controls, planning tools and risk-based delivery.

• Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
• Flexible working – Includes a mixture of home, site and Anglian Water Office
• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Company car or car cash allowance up to £450pcm
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Bonus scheme

We are an equal opportunity employer and consider all suitably qualified applicants, regardless of gender identity, ethnic origin, nationality, religion, age, sexual orientation, disability, or any other protected characteristic.

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.

If you need any support, please reach out to our team at resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk.

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