Innovation Team Leader

The Anglian Water @one Alliance is a totally collaborative organisation made up of nine 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.

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.

At @one Alliance, we're redefining how major infrastructure is delivered. As we embark on one of the UK's largest and most ambitious investment programmes through AMP8, we're looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Innovation Team Leader to help us challenge convention, embrace new technologies, and deliver industry-leading solutions.

As Innovation Team Leader, you will develop and deliver the AMP8 Innovation Strategy, ensuring innovative ideas are identified, trialled, evaluated and successfully adopted across the business.

You’ll work closely with teams across the alliance, the wider Anglian Water innovation ecosystem, supply chain partners, academia and industry bodies to find practical solutions to some of our biggest challenges.

• Lead and develop a high-performing innovation team, fostering a culture of curiosity, collaboration and trust.
• Support team recruitment, succession planning, learning and development activities.
• Champion a strong health, safety and wellbeing culture across all innovation activities.

• Develop and deliver the @one Alliance Innovation Strategy for AMP8 and beyond.
• Collaborate with engineering, construction, delivery, carbon, procurement and performance teams to identify opportunities for innovation.
• Lead the identification, assessment and implementation of new technologies, products, materials and ways of working.
• Manage innovation trials from concept through to evaluation and adoption.
• Visit operational and construction sites to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation.
• Monitor project progress, risks and benefits, ensuring robust governance and reporting.

• Build relationships with suppliers, universities, start-ups, research organisations and industry bodies.
• Attend conferences, exhibitions and industry events to identify emerging technologies and best practice.
• Represent the @one Alliance as an innovation ambassador within the wider industry.
• Collaborate with Anglian Water's Innovation Team and support delivery of Ofwat Innovation Fund projects.

• Develop a strong understanding of the alliance commercial model and how innovation can drive improved outcomes.
• Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reduce costs and support carbon reduction ambitions.
• Promote innovation success stories and share learning across the business.