Innovation Team Leader

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?

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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.

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.

• 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.
• 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…