Job Description
Job Title: Innovation Project & Engagement Manager
Circa £45,000 to £48,000 per annum, dependent on skills & experience
Full time/37 hrs a week/12 month Fixed Term Contract
Location: Peterborough/Huntingdon & Homeworking
Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with hybrid working, with an average of 2-3 days a week in the office as required. Make every drop of your potential count. Join our team! Anglian Water's Shop Window Incubator is where we accelerate innovation and improve our assets, processes, and people. Our aim is to build the water company of the future by allowing the business to develop, test, and trial a variety of solutions.
Find out more about Innovation at Anglian Water and the Shop Window here: Innovation Hub - Anglian Water. By creating a physical and virtual incubator for Anglian Water to pilot new ideas, technologies, and processes, we will learn how to solve our current and future challenges, develop our people, and ultimately achieve our strategic priorities. Once proven, successful innovations will be rolled out to the wider Anglian region to maximize the benefits to our customers, environment, and business.
As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:
1. Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
2. Personal private health care
3. Annual bonus scheme
4. Opportunity to volunteer for unpaid work in the community
5. 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by you
6. Life Cover at 8x your salary
7. Personal Accident cover - up to 5x your salary
8. Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
What you’ll be doing:
As our Project and Engagement Manager, you will be responsible for engaging both internal and external stakeholders in the delivery of projects within the Research and Innovation programme. You will deliver innovation projects which will include managing teams built up from members of staff from across Anglian Water, as well as line managing university students and contractors when required. You will support the Strategic Innovation and Shop Window Lead to identify new projects or avenues to explore through the Shop Window.
You will also have the opportunity to support and deliver projects as part of the Ofwat Innovation Fund. This will require the ability to gain a working knowledge of many parts of our organization, understand the priorities of our business, work with stakeholders to articulate problems to external solution providers, and to articulate the opportunity of external suppliers to internal parties. Alongside this, you will support and work alongside the Shop Window, Supplier Engagement, and Communications functions of Research & Innovation, as well as the wider innovation ecosystem for the development, delivery, and integration of projects through the Shop Window.
What does it take to be successful?
* Previous Project Management experience
* Basic data analysis, development of benefits realisation plan, and business case development
* Operational experience (water and/or water recycling) would be an advantage
* Self-motivated with experience of working autonomously and independently, but within the boundaries of an established project and communications plan
* Excellent communication skills and an ability to forge effective working relationships with a range of stakeholders
* Experience of communicating with different audiences across a range of channels
* Experience of translating complicated topics into engaging and easy-to-understand communications
* Credibility and confidence to be the external face of the business
* Excellent writing skills
* Confident presenting to an audience
At Anglian Water: Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed.
Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women’s Utility Network. Please don’t be put off if you don’t have all the skills required for the position; if you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference, then we’d love to hear from you.
Closing date: 4th April 2025
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