CLOSING DATE: 17TH JUNE 2025

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach; this role provides you with the opportunity to combine working from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your based location will be in Worldwide House/Thorpe Wood House in Peterborough but occasional travel across the Anglian Water region visiting various sites will be required.
Refreshingly different careers
At Anglian Water, we’re not just delivering water services - we’re delivering environmental and social prosperity. With a bold £11bn investment planned for AMP8, we’re embarking on the largest capital delivery programme in our history. To help us achieve this, we’re looking for a dynamic and visionary Senior Stakeholder Engagement Lead to join our Corporate Affairs team and lead the charge in building meaningful, strategic relationships that unlock progress and leave a lasting legacy.
This newly created senior position is pivotal to the success of our capital delivery ambitions. You’ll lead the statutory engagement programme for securing planning consents across major infrastructure projects - from desalination plants and strategic interconnectors to our Colchester Reuse scheme.
You’ll work across a complex matrix of delivery partners, local authorities, statutory consultees, and government bodies, ensuring that engagement is proactive, aligned, and impactful.

• Develop and oversee comprehensive engagement strategies for securing planning consents across major infrastructure projects, including desalination plants, strategic interconnectors, and the Colchester Reuse scheme.
• Ensure all engagement plans are aligned with regulatory timelines and delivery milestones, enabling smooth mobilisation of capital projects.
• Identify and engage key decision-makers, influencers, and statutory consultees to streamline planning and permitting processes.
• Create a unified, enterprise-wide view of engagement activities across all capital delivery programmes, ensuring consistency and transparency.
• Establish a cross-functional engagement community within Anglian Water to align messaging and outreach across all delivery programmes.
• Build partnerships with other major infrastructure projects to share best practices and enhance engagement strategies.
• Work closely with programme leads and enabling managers to support project delivery and ensure engagement activities are fully integrated into project plans.
• Develop and implement structured engagement frameworks for local authorities and parish councils, including Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Enhanced Planning Performance Agreements (PPAs).
• Establish a cross-functional engagement community within Anglian Water to align messaging and outreach across all delivery programmes.
• Build partnerships with other major infrastructure projects to share best practices and enhance engagement strategies.
• Work closely with programme leads and enabling managers to support project delivery and ensure engagement activities are fully integrated into project plans.