Head of Business Improvement Strategy and Optimisation

Up to £105k pa dependent on skills and experience Permanent Full Time Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be Peterborough.

We have a new opportunity for someone to join our Water Recycling Operations (WRO) team to use their expertise in creating a high performing business team and deliver extensive business efficiencies across programmes of work, reducing waste and cost and delivering enhancements to our processes. You will be part of the WRO Senior Leadership Team and will be accountable for the development and delivery of an improvement strategy which takes our ambitious Directorate to an industry leading position in relation to environmental enhancement, value for money and customer service.

You will work alongside other senior leadership teams, partnering with our specialists and using external benchmarking to create strong business cases and lead our change programmes. The breadth of opportunity cuts across process, asset optimisation and new innovations, productivity and quality, and will require strong focus on adoption through engagement and performance frameworks. You will be part of a cross business community providing leadership, collaboration and input whilst working with specialists across our business.

You will be a role model for innovation, collaboration and curiosity across the leadership team, bringing your energy and critical thinking to our teams and forums.

• Significant experience in a senior operational role with proven leadership skills
• Proven experience in risk assessment, operational decision making and working in dynamic situations
• Demonstrable experience driving cost and process enhancements across a number of business teams
• Strategic thinker with the ability to adapt, challenge and change
• Innovative thinker with the ability to deliver ideas into business practice
• Collaborative team member who is able to bring people with them
• Proven excellent presentation and communication skills across different audiences
• Previous experience of delivering large projects/programmes

• Full private healthcare with no excess
• 30 days leave, + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• A flexible working culture
• Competitive pension scheme – we double-match your contributions up with an employer contribution up to a maximum of 12%
• Life Assurance at eight times your salary
• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
• Bonus Scheme
• Lots of great discounts
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Paid time off when you’re physically and mentally unwell
• An excellent Family Leave package – to help you support your family
• Company car or car cash allowance based on market value - conditions apply

Opportunities are open to all suitably qualified candidates.

Closing date: 20 March 2022

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment.

Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region.