System Optimisation Delivery Support

Job Description

Salary: Circa £40,000

Location(s): Thorpe Wood House, Enterprise, Lancaster House
Contract Type: Permanent, Full-time (With flexibility for part-time)

Are you passionate about driving programme delivery and supporting operational excellence? As the System Optimisation Delivery Support within the Water Optimisation business unit, you will play a pivotal role in supporting the Programme Manager and workstream leads to deliver the system optimisation strategy. This is a project management-level position, responsible for ensuring that activities are well-organised, tracked, and communicated across multiple workstreams and stakeholders.

You will take ownership of key delivery support functions, including action tracking, stakeholder engagement, financial monitoring, and risk management. Working closely with technical teams and governance groups, you’ll ensure programme visibility, momentum, and alignment. This role is ideal for someone with strong organisational skills, a proactive mindset, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, complex environment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the coordination of system workstream activities, ensuring alignment with delivery timelines and priorities.

• Track actions, decisions, risks and dependencies, proactively following up with stakeholders to maintain momentum.

• Maintain and manage documentation, including trackers, logs, registers, and delivery plans.

• Build strong working relationships with internal and external stakeholders, ensuring effective communication and alignment.

• Prepare high-quality reports and presentations for governance and leadership forums.

• Track and report programme spend, working with finance teams to maintain accurate cost forecasts and identify variances.

Essential Criteria:

• Project Management/Project Analyst experience.

• Experience in change and risk management.

• Ability to challenge and implement change.

• Demonstrated work flexibility and strong team-building skills.

• Flexibility to cope with multiple workstreams and changing priorities.

• Experience of Financial/Budget management

• Recognised project management qualification (APM, Prince II or MSP) – desirable.

Key Skills & Behaviours:

• Project coordination: manage multiple workstreams, track actions, and maintain delivery plans with attention to detail.

• Stakeholder engagement: build strong relationships across technical and business teams, ensuring alignment and clear communication.

• Analytical thinking: gather and interpret data to support business case development and decision-making.

• Constructive challenge: confidently engage in technical discussions, offering insight and challenge to ensure delivery quality.

• Financial awareness: support tracking of programme spend and resource use, understanding cost drivers and efficiency opportunities.

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

• Personal private health care

• 25 days leave (rising with service) + Bank Holidays

• Life Cover at 8x your salary

• Personal Accident cover – up to 5x your salary

• Flexible working options

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

• Bonus scheme

• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle

Why Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is not your typical water company. What we do really matters. Water is the lifeblood of our world and we’re proud of the difference we make. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly love what we do!

If you’re passionate about what you do and would like to make a difference then we’d love to hear from you.

Closing date: 27/02/2026