Asset Strategy Lead

Job Description

Salary Circa £50k - £55k, salary depending on skills and experience

Peterborough / Huntingdon – Flexibility of Home working

Permanent, Full-time, with flexibility for part-time

Benefits: 26 days annual leave, double match pension (up to 6%), annual bonus, private healthcare

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough, but you’ll also be working at Lancaster House in Huntingdon. You would be expected to work in the office a minimum of 3 days a week.

Join us in shaping the future of Anglian Water’s infrastructure.

As an Asset Strategy Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving how we invest in, operate, and evolve our assets across the region. This is your chance to influence the long-term direction of a major utility provider by developing, refining, and assuring our Asset Class Strategies — the blueprints that guide how we manage our assets.

You’ll work at the heart of the organisation, collaborating with experts and stakeholders from across asset management, engineering, operations, capital delivery, risk, and data teams. Together, you’ll bring clarity, innovation, and strategic thinking to every stage of the asset lifecycle — from investment planning and maintenance to operational performance and risk management.

In this role, you’ll ensure our strategies don’t just exist on paper: you’ll help embed them across the business, provide assurance that they’re being applied effectively, and continuously refine them to meet shifting challenges, emerging technologies, and our long-term purpose.

If you’re energised by big-picture thinking, cross-functional collaboration, and the opportunity to shape how critical assets are managed for generations to come, this role puts you right at the centre of the action.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop Anglian Water’s Asset Class Strategies
  Lead the end-to-end development and continual improvement of asset class strategies, working with SMEs and stakeholders to shape common approaches, fill knowledge gaps, prioritise based on risk, and ensure strategies remain current, evidence-based, and aligned to business needs.

• Support the Implementation of Strategies
  Guide teams across the business in adopting approved strategies by providing expert advice, clear briefing materials, and training to embed required changes effectively.

• Assure the Delivery and Effectiveness of Strategies
  Create and deliver an assurance programme to verify that strategies are being followed and achieving the intended outcomes across capital, maintenance, operations, risk, and asset information activities. Drive improvements and update strategies based on assurance findings.

• Lead and Champion Asset Management Best Practice (10%)
  Promote a strong safety, wellbeing, and values-driven culture while advocating for asset management principles. Benchmark against industry best practice and provide expert insight to support continuous improvement across the organisation.

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

• 26 days annual leave – rising with length of service

• Private Healthcare

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

What does it take to be successful?

• Experience working strategically within asset intensive organisations

• Appropriate technical qualification (e.g. IAM) or educated to degree level

• Strong understanding of asset management principles / conceptual models

• Proven understanding of the Water/Water Recycling assets and processes.

• Strong understanding of business risk and risk management processes

• Demonstrable experience of ability to collaborate and influence at all levels and across departments.

• Excellent communication and reporting skills

• Good IT skills particularly Excel, PowerBI and Word

• Ability to adapt, think strategically and challenge constructively

• Excellent Customer service skills

Why Anglian Water?

This role offers a rare opportunity to directly shape how Anglian Water manages billions of pounds worth of critical infrastructure. You won’t just be maintaining the status quo — you’ll be building the strategies that guide major investment decisions, operational priorities, and long-term asset resilience across our entire network.

You’ll work at the centre of the business, collaborating with passionate experts across engineering, operations, risk, data, and capital delivery. If you enjoy tackling complex challenges, influencing decision-making, and driving meaningful change, this role gives you both scope and visibility.

Closing date: 4 January 2026

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