Strategic Projects Manager

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.  

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. 

Key responsibilities 

• 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. 

We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:   

• 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. 

What does it take to be successful? 

• 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 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.