Strategic Projects Manager

Circa £55,000 dependent on skills and experience. Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time working. Huntingdon, hybrid role – 2‑3 days in the office.

Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team! 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.

Key Responsibilities

• Translate strategic objectives into engineering requirements, constraints and technical solutions.
• Conduct or oversee engineering assessments, modelling, calculations, simulations, risk assessments, system design and integration concepts.
• Manage the project development lifecycle and deliver outputs on time and on budget, while prioritising safety and wellbeing.
• Develop and own the project programme, ensuring 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 for each development phase.
• Input into project risk and opportunity registers, take ownership of mitigation and realisation strategies, and escalate risks as required.
• Apply technical and commercial rigour to projects requiring accurate and timely delivery and decision‑making.
• Produce timely progress reports on a monthly basis and present internally to the Strategy and Development team.

Benefits

• Personal private health care.
• Generous double‑match pension – 7% from you and 14% from Anglian Water for a total of 21%.
• 24‑hour virtual GP service for you and your household.
• Car allowance.
• 26 days annual leave (rising with length of service and the option to buy more).
• Life assurance (up to 8× salary).
• Personal accident cover (up to 5× salary).
• Excellent family‑friendly policies – 26 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave, 4 weeks paid paternity/partner leave and opportunity for shared parental pay.
• Bonus scheme.
• Flexible benefits and working culture to support wellbeing and lifestyle.

What Does It Take to Be Successful?

• 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/wastewater experience.
• Experience in managing engineering projects across part or full lifecycle, 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.
• Understanding of customer needs and aspirations.

Inclusion at Anglian Water: Inclusion is for everyone and 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 passion for creating better outcomes. Anglian Water is committed to creating an environment where all colleagues feel they belong.