**Salary:** Circa from £50,000 depending on skills and experience **Permanent, Full time (With options for Part-Time)** **Location:** Flexible within the Anglian Water region, with regular travel required to central offices Join us at Anglian Water and help shape the future of sustainable abstraction in one of the UK’s most environmentally sensitive regions. This is a rare opportunity to play a strategic leadership role at the intersection of environmental protection, regulation, and long‐term water security. sustainable has never been more critical. In this role, **About the role** Reporting to the Water Resources Environment Manager, the **Abstraction Strategy and Regulation Manager** will lead on abstraction strategy, regulatory risk management, and public interest case development. You’ll act as the focal point for managing abstraction licence change risks across AMP programmes, ensuring emerging risks are identified early, robust mitigation is in place, and regulatory commitments are delivered on time. Working collaboratively across the business and with external regulators, you’ll shape long‐term sustainable abstraction strategy and integrate abstraction requirements into key programmes such as WRMP29, PR29, AWINEP, and the Environmental Destination Strategy. **Key responsibilities** term sustainable abstraction strategy, including innovative approaches such as dynamic abstraction licensing**Required skills and experience** Experience leading complex project or programme management activities Strong experience working with regulators, ideally within environmental or water sectorsProven ability to develop and present robust, evidence based regulatory casesExcellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret emerging risks and complex data Ability to lead, influence, and inspire across multidisciplinary teams Water company or utilities sector experience (desirable) A wide range of flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team resourcing@anglianwater.co.uk’To apply, you’ll need your up-to-date CV, we also recommend uploading a cover letter – tell us what has made you apply and what skills you can bring to the position. We will be in touch after your application has been reviewed, following the closing date.If you are offered a job with us, you’ll be subject to the relevant employment checks for your role, which could include references, driving licence check, DBS Check as well as your right to work in the UK. More information about how we look after and use your information can be found in our .Become a part of Anglian Water’s future and join us on our journey as we live through our values to build trust, do the right thing, and are always exploring, to bring environmental and social prosperity to the region. #J-18808-Ljbffr