Strategic Asset Manager in Bradford, Yorkshire

Company description: Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.

About Yorkshire Water: Our purpose is simple: to create a better life for people and the planet. We supply water and wastewater services to over 5 million customers and manage a vast asset base across Yorkshire. We are transforming how we build, operate, manage and plan our assets, investing in capability, digital innovation, and long-term resilience. This role sits at the heart of that transformation.

The Opportunity: We are looking for a Strategic Asset Manager to play a leading role in our Strategic Asset Management function. This is a high-impact leadership role, responsible for helping to shape how asset management is governed, improved and embedded across the organisation. Working across Water, Wastewater and corporate functions, the role will help ensure that Yorkshire Water has a clear and effective approach to asset management that supports organisational objectives, enables robust decision-making and drives continual improvement. The role will work closely with senior leaders and functional teams across Operations, Engineering, Asset Delivery, PMO, Finance, Environment and Strategy. This role is ideal for someone who combines strategic thinking with practical leadership, and who can bring clarity, influence and challenge across a complex, asset-intensive business and regulatory interfaces.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Shape and lead the organisations asset management governance framework, defining and maintaining clear ownership, accountability and oversight for key asset management activities.
• Own and continually evolve the Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP), ensuring it remains aligned with organisational objectives, regulatory expectations and recognised good practice, including ISO 55000.
• Provide strategic oversight and constructive challenge across water and wastewater asset management, promoting consistency, system integrity and shared standards.
• Strengthen asset management capability and maturity across the business, identifying and coordinating improvement activity that enhances governance, process clarity and organisational readiness over time.
• Champion insight led and risk-based decision making, driving the effective use of asset data, analytics, modelling and digital tools to improve visibility of risk, performance and trade-offs.
• Lead and contribute to high quality regulatory submissions and external reporting, including PR29, ensuring asset management content is coherent, evidence based and aligned with the wider organisational narrative.

What skills & qualifications you will need:

• Significant experience in asset management within a utility, regulated industry or infrastructure organisation.
• Strong applied understanding of ISO 55000 principles and experience of embedding them within organisational practice.
• Experience of shaping strategic asset management frameworks, governance arrangements, long-term planning and improvement activity.
• Strong understanding of asset lifecycle management, risk-based decision-making and the use of information to support strategic recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to work across organisational boundaries and bring people together around a shared direction.
• Ability to analyse complex issues and translate them into clear, practical and strategic recommendations.

You will also benefit from having:

• Experience in the water sector or another highly regulated asset-intensive environment.
• Experience of developing and embedding strategic planning artefacts such as a Strategic Asset Management Plan, policy framework or organisational improvement roadmap.
• Experience with asset modelling, reliability engineering, or long-term strategic planning.
• Professional membership of a relevant institution such as IAM, CIWEM, ICE, IMechE.

What’s In It for you?

• Opportunity to shape the future of strategic asset management at Yorkshire Water.
• A high-impact role with exposure to senior leaders, strategic governance and regulatory activity.
• The chance to influence how Yorkshire Water governs, improves and applies asset management across the organisation.
• Professional development and support for further accreditation.
• Competitive salary and benefits.
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements.

We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn’t always easy!

If you’ve got experience as a Strategic Asset Manager and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible. No agencies please.