## Innovation Integration LeadApplylocations: Huntingdontime type: Full timeposted on: Posted Todayjob requisition id: R37581**Innovation Integration Lead** **Circa £55,000 dependent on skills and experience** **Permanent, full time (37 hours), with flexibility for part time working** **Huntingdon****Dive into a world of opportunity, and join our team!**We are looking for an Innovation Integration Lead to join our Research and Innovation team!This role is responsible for driving the commercialisation and integration of innovation across Anglian Water, ensuring that successful trials are scaled into operational solutions that support our purpose, through enabling changes that deliver efficiency, resilience, and customer value. It also focuses on embedding learnings from innovation projects into future delivery strategies and strengthening internal capabilities for adoption and scaling, supporting our wider Enterprise innovation capability.This exciting role also represents innovation in strategic forums and supports programme leads in embedding outcomes into delivery plans, supporting the Innovation Integration Manager. Externally, this role leverages partnerships and sector frameworks to bring high-potential solutions into the business, ensuring benefits from industry-wide investments and exploring new models such as corporate venturing and incubators.**Key responsibilities*** Identify and develop commercial opportunities in areas such as bioresources and the circular economy, other new revenue streams and working with internal stakeholders to build robust business cases* Align the innovation portfolio with business priorities, enabling knowledge transfer, and challenging processes that hinder integration, to support scale-up of innovations into Business As Usual.* Attend academic / industry conferences and workshops, alongside engagement with industry innovation forums such as Spring* Translate successful innovation trials into scalable, operational solutions across the business* Facilitate knowledge transfer and capability building across teams to support innovation adoption**We invest in our people - as a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:*** Personal private health care* Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%* 24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household* 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more* Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)* Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)* Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay* Bonus scheme* Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.**What does it take to be successful?*** Experience in delivering complex and innovative projects/programmes* Awareness of digital and emerging technologies* Able to build relationships between disparate companies – managing risk / reward* Knowledge of establishing and working to governance, assurance, change management and reporting* An understanding of the opportunities that innovative solutions and processes can bring to the business* A self starter with excellent organisational skills and a genuine enthusiasm for deliberately delivering differently* Able to work across teams and get buy-in to changes in processes and practices, requiring excellent communication skills**Inclusion at Anglian Water:**Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.**Closing date: 16****th****June 2026** **Interviews: towards the end of June****#loveeverydrop**### About UsWe 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. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk’To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our Privacy Notice.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.
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