Programme Manager Storage Points
About The Position
Bringing focus, foresight and flow to storage delivery. As Programme Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the effective planning, control and delivery of a critical programme that underpins safe, resilient water supply for our customers. Reporting to the Enablement Lead, you’ll provide clear oversight of progress, risk and cost, bringing structure and momentum to a complex delivery environment. This is a role with real scope, requiring commercial awareness, confident stakeholder engagement and the ability to translate insight into action. You’ll work across multiple teams, balancing immediate delivery pressures with longer-term programme objectives, helping shape how the Storage Point programme is planned, challenged and delivered.
Requirements
- Proven experience in programme or project management, ideally within a regulated or asset-intensive environment
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence, challenge and collaborate at all levels
- A commercial mindset, with experience managing cost, risk and programme performance
- A proactive, solution-focused approach, able to anticipate issues and drive momentum
- Strong analytical and communication skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear insight
- Experience within water, utilities or infrastructure delivery is advantageous, along with familiarity with programme controls, planning tools and risk-based delivery
Responsibilities
- Develop, manage and monitor the Storage Point programme, ensuring clear visibility of progress, risks, opportunities and financial impacts
- Own and actively manage the programme Risk & Opportunity Log, working with delivery and enabling teams to identify, track and mitigate risks
- Regularly interrogate and challenge project plans to ensure delivery remains realistic, aligned and on track
- Build strong, trusted relationships with Storage Point Delivery Managers, planners and supporting teams
- Identify and address deviations in delivery, construction sequencing, timelines and cost at job and parcel level
- Provide clear, timely programme updates to internal and external stakeholders, ensuring impacts and dependencies are well understood
- Maintain a programme-wide view to identify opportunities to bundle work, optimise sequencing and make best use of available resources
- Collaborate closely with Water Supply and operational teams to align the Storage Point programme with annual maintenance plans
- Promote efficient delivery approaches and proactive risk mitigation across all sites
- Develop, monitor and refine the programme delivery profile to meet strategic, regulatory and local commitments
- Recommend remedial actions or re-profiling where required to maintain efficient and effective delivery
- Collate, analyse and present cost and schedule data in collaboration with performance teams
- Produce clear, professional reporting with meaningful lead and lag indicators to support informed decision-making
- Encourage constructive challenge to improve how the programme is planned and delivered
Benefits
- Personal private health care
- 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service
- Flexible working – Includes a mixture of home, site and Anglian Water Office
- Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
- Company car or car cash allowance up to £450pcm
- Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
- Bonus scheme
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
