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About the Role

As Design Strategy Manager, you will play a pivotal client-side role, developing and maintaining Design Strategy, Client Requirements and Technical Assurance across the New Reservoirs Programme. You’ll work closely with delivery, engineering, commercial, procurement, and regulatory teams to establish, communicate, and maintain strategy documents, technical scopes, and assurance processes. Your expertise will ensure that programme outputs are consistent, justified, and technically assured, supporting milestones and delivering in accordance with Client Requirements.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain the Design Strategy for the Programme, ensuring it reflects required Design and Engineering workstreams.
Design and maintain the Technical Assurance Strategy, providing First Line of Defence Technical Assurance throughout the supply chain.
Define, develop, and maintain Client Requirements, ensuring alignment with programme outcomes and efficient delivery.
Coordinate independent Technical Assurance activities, overseeing technical scoping and progress monitoring.
Drive a culture of continuous improvement in Health, Safety & Wellbeing, ensuring compliance and a zero-accident culture.

Requirements

Significant design/technical experience in senior roles of large design and build contractor procurements and management.
Strong project management skills.
Design leadership at both detailed engineering and system level.
Experience managing multiple stakeholders internally and externally.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management.

Location

Peterborough
London

Work Type

Hybrid Working
Full-time
Part-time
Permanent

Experience Level

Senior roles

Salary/Compensations

Circa £73,000, depending on skills and experience

Benefits

Car allowance
Private health care
Double-matched pension
Virtual GP service for you and your household
Life assurance at 8 times salary
Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
26 days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
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 to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.

About the Company

We are seeking a Design Strategy Manager for our New Reservoirs Programme, which includes the development and delivery of two multi-billion-pound raw water reservoir systems: Fens Reservoir and Lincolnshire Reservoir. These projects represent the largest and most complex schemes ever undertaken by Anglian Water.

Equal Opportunity

We value the representation & diversity within our communities. Inclusion is for every one 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.