Our client is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. They make a daily difference to their 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. They are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
What you’ll be doing
As the Below Ground Water Network Strategy Manager, you’ll be responsible for developing and driving our clients’ long-term water network asset management strategy, including the development of their strategy to manage trunk and distribution main assets and their plans to achieve key performance commitments such as leakage reduction targets.
You’ll be responsible for leading investment scenarios and making strategic choices for PR24.
A key part of this role will be to lead and coordinate our client’s long-term vision for how their water network will operate up to 2100, identifying strategic investment ahead of need and developing the appropriate evidence base to support the business case.
You’ll assist Operations and the wider asset planning team in the development of water network strategies to deliver company performance commitments in AMP and maintain an overview of key risks to our clients’ long-term goals and investment priorities.
You’ll also assist the regulatory reporting process each year, ensuring the data our client provides externally is accurate and has been collated in line with established methodologies.
Day to day accountabilities include:
- Developing and owning our client’s long-term water Totex network investment planning strategies
- Working closely with external bodies to promote collaborative working
- Leading the development and delivery of the trunk and distribution mains strategies
- Supporting Operations in the development of water network strategies to meet company performance commitments
- Providing an overview of the key long term water network risks and investment priorities in the water network service
- Leading and developing asset management and analytical thinking and developing key staff capability to ensure business continuity and effective succession planning
We’re looking for you to
- Have excellent relationship, communication, and influencing skills, to clearly interact with stakeholders
- Have wide experience of the operational business and understanding of business functional operations
- Be educated to degree level or have outstanding role-specific knowledge in the water industry
- Be a credible leader with the drive and energy to deliver, lead and support teams
- Deliver exceptional strategies through an enthusiastic and positive approach, taking accountability for your role while working accurately and flexibly within a busy team
- Be a strategic thinker who has a strong engagement style and good communication skills
- Have sound judgment, be resolute, and hold an excellent decision-making track record
- Be an adaptable collaborator who can facilitate change across the business
What’s in it for you?
Delivering 25 strategies for our client’s water infrastructure is a great way to really transform how they operate, become more efficient, and deliver a better service for their customers. This is a hugely rewarding opportunity where you will be key in shaping our future.
Our clients’ competitive salary and package include a competitive bonus up to 30%, car allowance (£5800 p/a), private healthcare, an excellent contributory pension, and 26 days holiday.
Our client is proud of the positive ways of working they have adopted during the pandemic. They want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all their colleagues can thrive. For their office-based roles, they are moving to a hybrid approach where they’ll provide options around working from their offices, their operational sites, and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Our client is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work. If you join their team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and unparalleled benefits. They are also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion, and Disability Confident Leader and a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity in our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.





































