Senior Project Manager

Salary: £50,202 to £65,000 depending on skills and experience Full-time, with flexibility for part‑time. 37 hours per week/permanent

Location:

Lincoln/Peterborough/Huntingdon - Hybrid Working 2 days p/w in office. Private health care Double‑matched pension Life assurance at 8 times salary Make a real impact through outstanding project delivery We’re looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager to lead the delivery of complex, strategically important projects and smaller programmes across Anglian Water. This is an opportunity to manage initiatives spanning people, processes, data and systems, turning business challenges into clearly defined projects and delivering outcomes that create lasting value.

You’ll work closely with sponsors, senior stakeholders, project teams and change professionals to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budget and to the required quality. You’ll help our people understand, adopt and embed change, ensuring that the benefits of each project continue long after delivery. You’ll bring teams together, navigate complexity and create the clarity and momentum needed to turn ideas into successful outcomes.

As our Senior Project Manager, you’ll:

• Lead multiple strategically important projects and initiatives from initial idea and definition through to delivery, transition and closure.
• Develop robust business cases, exploring potential solutions, capturing requirements and clearly defining costs, benefits and expected outcomes.
• Agree project deliverables with sponsors and create comprehensive project plans, work breakdown structures, milestones and change‑management activities.
• Manage project budgets across both operational and capital expenditure, maintaining strong financial controls.
• Identify and manage risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies, escalating matters through the appropriate governance routes when required.
• Build trusted relationships with sponsors, senior stakeholders, business leads, suppliers and delivery partners.
• Establish effective project governance, reporting and communication across multiple work streams and stakeholder groups.
• Coach and develop colleagues, helping to strengthen project and change‑management capability across the wider organisation.

Successful delivery depends on bringing people with us. Working alongside sponsors and change professionals, you’ll apply structured change‑management principles to help colleagues adopt new processes, systems and ways of working. You’ll develop engagement and change plans, carry out impact and readiness assessments, anticipate resistance and make sure that business areas are properly prepared for transition. You’ll also help coordinate the volume and timing of change, ensuring that activity is manageable for our operational and front‑line teams.

You’ll be an accomplished project professional with significant experience of leading multiple, complex projects and work streams. You’ll be comfortable working with ambiguity, balancing competing priorities and influencing stakeholders at every level. You’ll bring demonstrable experience of:

• Proven experience leading complex projects from business case development through to delivery, governance and benefits realisation.
• Strong commercial and financial management skills, with experience managing budgets, risks, issues, dependencies and project controls.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence, collaborate and communicate complex information clearly across all levels.
• Experience leading teams, managing resources and delivering successful change adoption across multiple concurrent projects or work streams.
• Able to work effectively in a…