About the one Alliance The Anglian Water one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of eight partner companies (Anglian Water, SWECO, Balfour Beatty, Barhale, Binnies, MMB, MWH Treatment, and Skanska) and an extended supply chain, delivering over half of Anglian Water s capital investment programme. We are gearing up for our most exciting and challenging Asset Management Period yet, known as AMP8, this will see us deliver a programme of work larger than we ve ever delivered before. We ll be embarking on a new kind of project delivery focusing on nature-based solutions like wetlands and urban drainage schemes. We are driving change, empowering us to set global benchmarks and build a better environment, with the opportunity to offer enhanced growth and development to our workforce. We re looking to build on our existing teams with an environment built for career progression. With such an exciting portfolio of projects planned for AMP8 to keep the water flowing across the region, our ability to manage our work and outperform against our customer s expectations will come under greater scrutiny. We need aspiring driven talent to help us achieve our ambitious targets, are you ready to join us as we prepare to deliver the most creative and innovative AMP we have ever seen? About Sweco Transforming society together, we're planning and designing sustainable communities and cities of the future. Solving the great societal challenges of our time is more relevant, demanding and inspiring than ever before. At Sweco, we bring together experts with different perspectives and skills to develop solutions that address the challenges of urbanisation, harness the positive power of digitalisation and make societies more sustainable. We offer our clients a combination of global expertise and local presence, adapted to their business and reality. Our ambition is to be our clients most relevant partner, working together to help them solve their challenges, today and into the future. To ensure we support our objectives of collaboration across the business whilst providing our workforce with the agility to achieve a healthy work/ life balance, we are asking our employees to have office or site presence on an average of three days a week. What will you be doing as our new Head of Proposals? Being part of the one Alliance one of the most successful, award-winning, and progressive water sector capital delivery organisations, you will provide leadership to the Alliance and Anglian Water for developing value-driven solutions that achieve our capital investment programme outcomes and business objectives. You will develop new ways of working that focus on delivery outcomes, rather than outputs, to reduce carbon, protect and increase natural capital, address climate change, and embrace innovations and new digital technologies. You will deliver a diverse programme of water recycling (sewage treatment), infrastructure (pipelines) and water (treatment and storage) projects. Key Accountabilities: Collaboration & Stakeholder Management: Develop strong collaborative relationships and trust between Anglian Water s Asset Delivery Planning (ADP) and one alliance delivery teams. Manage the key Anglian Water and external stakeholders during the proposals stage. Be a point of escalation, mediation, and resolution for both Anglian Water and the one alliance during the proposals stage. Proposals Stage Management: Lead the Proposals Stage on behalf of the one alliance and be accountable for the performance. Own the Proposals Stage process in conjunction with Anglian Water ADP and monitor individual programme performance and lead continuous improvement. Understand both Anglian Water s and the one alliance s business objectives and ensure that they are used for developing and selecting solutions. Support the development of the one alliance s overall AMP8 delivery programme to achieve sustainable release of projects. Produce a Proposals Stage monthly performance report. Ensure that the Proposals Stage, including the Risk Opportunity and Value (ROV) process, is driven by robust data, analytics and objectiveness. Chair the one alliance preferred solution review meeting, to assess the certainty of project proposals achieving efficient delivery. Solutions Development: Lead a culture of value and challenge for developing solutions that achieve the business objectives and risk appetite, including differentiating between capital enhancement, legacy/maintenance, and performance improvement requirements. Facilitate rigorous root cause analysis, investigations, and data analysis to develop and select solutions. Engage the one delivery team discipline experts, so that they take responsibility for their project solutions. Drive the Risk, Opportunity & Value process to produce value driven outcomes that achieve the business objectives, including considering TOTEX, Benefits, and Six Capitals. Ensure that the selected proposals are sufficiently developed and risks managed to provide certainty and achieve a right first-time delivery approach for the one delivery teams. Health & Safety: Drive excellence in Health and Safety in solution development. Ensure risk assessments are completed to eliminate hazards and reduce risks. People & Team Development: Provide clear, consistent, and visible leadership to the Proposals Team. Develop the resource strategy for the Proposals Team. Provide mentoring and pastoral care to Proposals Team members. Transformation: Lead a culture that inspires your team to experiment, innovate, and continuously improve performance. Identify ways to reduce carbon and increase natural capital within solutions. Develop relationships with the wider water sector to enhance both yours and the one alliance s performance and reputation. A little bit about your skills, experience and behaviours To be successful in this position you will hold a degree ideally in an engineering discipline and preferably have experience in water-sector assets and delivering capital projects. Experience in a Design and Build environment is an advantage. You be able to demonstrate compliance with business ethics, foster collaboration and support the development of skills around you. You are comfortable leading a culture of outperforming affordability and continuous improvement to deliver efficiencies. You are a natural leader, providing line management for the team, and can confidently manage activities to achieve efficient outputs to ensure quality procedures are followed, mitigating risk where necessary. You ll enjoy the challenge of contributing to commercial performance and identifying improvements and working within a collaborative environment. OneAlliance vision A collaborative alliance, driving change. Empowering us to set global benchmarks and building a better environment for our customers. We strive to: Empower our people; Delight our Customers; Embrace digital transformation; Deliver brilliance. OneAlliance Values To bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop we: Build trust; Do the right thing; Are always exploring The Anglian Water one Alliance. Eight partners, endless opportunities. Let s transform society together at Sweco. Equality, Diversity & Inclusion It s important to us that that all our colleagues thrive at work - we strive to have a friendly and inclusive culture which respects the contribution individuals can bring to Sweco. We aim to promote equality, inclusivity and diversity for everyone. Here at Sweco we positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy or maternity/paternity. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant to ensure those who serve or have served, and their families, are treated fairly. To find out more The Armed Forces Covenant - Our Commitments | Sweco UK. We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed employer, and will interview applicants covered by the Equality Act 2010 that opt into the guaranteed interview scheme on the application form and meet the minimum criteria for the role. If I have a disability, can I get help (e.g. reasonable adjustments ) with the application process? 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