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Location: Within the East Anglia area to include: Lincoln, Peterborough, Huntingdon,
Northampton, Milton Keynes, Norfolk and Colchester
Contract: Permanent/Full time
Salary: circa £75,000 dependent on experience and skills
At Anglian Water our values are that together, we will: Build trust, do the right thing, and we are always exploring.
Who are we?
Here within Anglian Water, we collaborate with a number of alliance partners to provide the best water and water recycling services across the region by maintaining our existing assets and undertaking new projects to safeguard future water supplies.
Playing a key part in our drive to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region we serve through our commitment to Love Every Drop are our Integrated Operational Solutions (IOS) Alliance. Comprising of Anglian Water, MGroup, Barhale and Kier, the IOS Alliance work together to concentrate on solutions across the water recycling and clean water asset base.
What will you be doing as our Performance Manager?
The Performance Manager is a key senior leadership role, responsible for creating and leading a fully functional and professionally recognised performance team. They understand the service needs of their customers and stakeholders and will optimise the set of services to be deployed in the performance by improving the breadth and/or maturity of services available. They will lead a critical performance team to deliver the required set of services.
Ensuring the governance and oversight of Anglian Water’s IOS investment programme. This role encompasses full accountability for capital and operational expenditure (TOTEX), providing robust insight, analysis, and reporting across multiple governance forums.
This role requires the ability to operate and collaborate at a strategic level with Change Leaders and business units/Portfolio leaders to optimise the delivery of change. They’ll do this by offering trusted insight to support decision making, assure delivery and identify improvement opportunities, as well as supporting to enable coordinated and synchronised delivery.
They’ll also play the role of a critical for the IOS Programme Managers and leadership teams, by growing the understanding of best practice approaches to delivery and core processes as well as offering open and transparent coaching to improve the effectiveness of Projects and Professional capability. Lastly, the role will play a critical role in the overall evolution and continuous improvement of performance capability in commercial operations.
A Little Bit About Your Skills, Experience And Behaviours
* Experience in a project/programme/portfolio delivery leadership role
* Proven experience of setting up and running Performance teams at a senior leadership level
* Programme management qualification or equivalent experience
* Significant experience in issue resolution and risk management
* Significant experience in leadership, change management and influencing across multiple functions with a demonstrated success in developing and advancing processes
* Proven understanding of programme and project delivery processes
* Thorough understanding & experience of delivering projects of work to deliver capability & cost savings
* Excellent communication & relationship building skills with the ability to influence at all levels of the organisation
* Strong organisational, prioritisation and risk management skills
* Drive efficiency & cost-effectiveness by understanding who my customers are, what they value & then acting upon it
* Balance business outcomes with commercial and customer realities
* Actively break down barriers across silos for truly collaborative outcomes
* Demonstrate personal resilience through change and setbacks
* take ownership for problems or requests made of me and explain what I will do
Why Anglian Water?
At Anglian Water, our people are at the heart of everything we do, and we ensure their hard work is recognised and rewarded. Some of our benefits include:
* Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
* Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paternity / partner pay. Opportunity for shared parental pay.
* Personal private health care
* Annual bonus scheme
* Up to 26 days leave, rising with service + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
* Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
* Lots of great benefits including 20% off new EE mobile contracts, discounted cinema tickets and a Cycle2Work scheme
* Free parking at all offices, site and leisure parks
* Life Cover at 8x your salary
* Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary
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.
If you feel this role is your next move within the industry and you display these skill sets and attributes, then please apply today.
Closing date: 6th August 2025
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