Snr Stakeholder Engagement Lead Cap Del Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Posted 12 hours ago

Location: Peterborough & Hybrid Working

Closing Date: 17th June 2025

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your based location will be in Worldwide House/ Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough but occasional travel across the Anglian Water region visiting various sites will be required.

At Anglian Water, we’re not just delivering water services — we’re delivering environmental and social prosperity. With a bold £11bn investment planned for AMP8, we’re embarking on the largest capital delivery programme in our history. To help us achieve this, we’re looking for a dynamic and visionary Senior Stakeholder Engagement Lead to join our Corporate Affairs team and lead the charge in building meaningful, strategic relationships that unlock progress and leave a lasting legacy. This newly created senior position is pivotal to the success of our capital delivery ambitions.

You’ll lead the statutory engagement programme for securing planning consents across major infrastructure projects — from desalination plants and strategic interconnectors to our Colchester Reuse scheme. You’ll work across a complex matrix of delivery partners, local authorities, statutory consultees, and government bodies, ensuring that engagement is proactive, aligned, and impactful.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop and oversee comprehensive engagement strategies for securing planning consents across major infrastructure projects, including desalination plants, strategic interconnectors, and the Colchester Reuse scheme.
• Ensure all engagement plans are aligned with regulatory timelines and delivery milestones, enabling smooth mobilisation of capital projects.
• Identify and engage key decision-makers, influencers, and statutory consultees to streamline planning and permitting processes.
• Create a unified, enterprise-wide view of engagement activities across all capital delivery programmes, ensuring consistency and transparency.
• Establish a cross-functional engagement community within Anglian Water to align messaging and outreach across all delivery programmes.
• Build partnerships with other major infrastructure projects to share best practices and enhance engagement strategies.
• Work closely with programme leads and enabling managers to support project delivery and ensure engagement activities are fully integrated into project plans.
• Develop and implement structured engagement frameworks for local authorities and parish councils, including Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Enhanced Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs).

What does it take to be successful?

• Proven experience in stakeholder engagement, public affairs, or communications within infrastructure, utilities, or government sectors.
• Exceptional relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of delivering complex engagement plans across multiple projects.
• Strong understanding of planning processes, statutory consultation, and community engagement.
• A collaborative leader who thrives in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment.
• Degree in Communications, Political Science, Environmental Science, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Skilled in managing outreach plans, crisis communication, and stakeholder reporting.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office and project management tools.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Personal private health care
• Annual bonus scheme
• 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap
• Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• Life Cover at 8x your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
• Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
• Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone 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.

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.

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.