Strategic System and Interface Manager

Job Description

Salary: Circa £68,000, depending on skills and experience

Full-time, with flexibility for part-time.

37 hours per week/permanent

Location: Peterborough - Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office per week

Private health care

Double-matched pension

Virtual GP service for you and your household

Life assurance at 8 times salary

Are you ready to lead the development and delivery of systems and operations strategy for one of the UK’s most ambitious water infrastructure programmes? We are seeking a Strategic Systems and Interface Manager to join our Programme Solutions team, guiding the successful delivery of the Fens and Lincolnshire Reservoirs projects.

About the Role

This pivotal role will shape the definition and communication of external and internal system interfaces, ensuring a holistic approach to project objectives and supporting the development of specifications and risk allocation. You’ll collaborate with sponsors, internal teams, and a wide range of external stakeholders—including regulatory bodies and water companies—to ensure project requirements are defined, allocated, and fulfilled.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Systems Operation Strategy: Lead the planning, design, and implementation of robust asset systems and operational modes, integrating with broader project strategies. Establish key contractual system requirements and ensure effective integration with existing assets.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build strategic relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including Anglian Water, Cambridge Water, Environment Agency, and supply chain partners.
• Client Technical Support: Mobilise subject matter expertise to respond to programme queries, asset standard deviations, and technical requests. Ensure responses are proportionate, consistent, and justifiable, supporting DCO delivery and commercial procurement.
• System and Operation Delivery: Oversee scoping and delivery of task orders with progress monitoring and liaison with engineering and programme management teams.
• Health, Safety & Wellbeing: Drive a culture of continuous improvement, ensuring compliance with company policies and maintaining a zero-accident culture.

What We’re Looking

• Experience working with complex systems, ideally in the water industry
• Knowledge of raw and potable water operations

• Ability to think strategically and tactically, with a technical mindset
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong IT and project management skills
• Commercial and industry sector awareness
• Knowledge of control systems

As a valued employee, you’ll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
• Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
• Double-matched pension (maximum 6% employee contribution)
• 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.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

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.

Ready to apply?
If you have the vision, expertise, and drive to lead this critical programme, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now to join Anglian Water’s Strategic Asset Management team.

Closing date: Wednesday 11th March

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