Strategic Projects Manager

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 escalate 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.

• 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
• A car allowance
• 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.

• 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

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.

Closing date: 2nd July 2026

Interviews: W/C 20th July

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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