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Competitive Salary Depending On Skills And Experience

Full time/37 hours per week/permanent

Location: Peterborough - Hybrid Working 2-3 days in office weekly with at least 1 day presence required in London hub office and 1 day in Peterborough office.

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you with hybrid working.

Lead the commercial strategy for one of the UK’s most ambitious infrastructure programmes.

At Anglian Water, we’re delivering two multi-billion-pound reservoirs — the largest and most complex projects in our history — to secure a sustainable water future for millions. As our Head of Commercial, you’ll take the helm of the commercial function for this nationally significant programme, setting the strategy, shaping supplier relationships, and ensuring the highest standards of integrity, transparency, and governance.

This is a rare opportunity to provide strategic leadership in a dynamic matrix environment, overseeing supplier engagement, dispute resolution, and commercial performance, while championing best practice and fostering an inclusive, high-performing team. You’ll work closely with senior stakeholders and partners to ensure every aspect of the commercial workstream drives the programme — and Anglian Water — towards its ambitious goals.

As Head of Commercial, you will:

• Build and lead a high-performing commercial team Define and deliver the commercial strategy for the programme, ensuring the team has clear objectives, the right capabilities, and a collaborative, high-performance culture aligned to programme goals.
• Implement robust commercial controls and assurance Establish effective contractual and financial controls, commercial risk management, and assurance processes to ensure transparency, integrity, and value throughout the project lifecycle.
• Drive commercial integrity, reporting, and continuous improvement Safeguard Anglian Water’s commercial position by ensuring accurate reporting, managing risks and opportunities, benchmarking against best practice, and embedding innovation and efficiency into commercial processes.
• Lead stakeholder and partner engagement on commercial matters Act as the trusted point of contact for all commercial and contractual issues, fostering strong relationships with internal teams, delivery partners, regulators, and other key stakeholders, and ensuring clear, aligned communication across the programme.
  
  
  

• A degree in Construction Management, Quantity Surveying, or a related discipline, with MRICS (or equivalent) professional qualification.
• Proven experience in a senior or strategic commercial role, ideally within major infrastructure programmes (£500m+), with a strong track record of shaping and delivering commercial strategies.
• Expertise in standard forms of contract and innovative commercial/financing models, including PPP, SIPR, and DPC.
• Significant experience leading large teams (30+) within complex, matrix organisational structures, fostering a high-performance and aligned culture.
• Demonstrable success working on mega-projects in the water or wider infrastructure sector, engaging with senior and board-level stakeholders.
• Strong project financing knowledge, coupled with the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments and influence at all levels.
• A commitment to ongoing professional and leadership development, with evidence of continuous learning and growth.
  
  
  

• Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6%
• Car allowance
• Personal private health care
• Annual bonus scheme
• 30 days leave + Bank Holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion
• Life Cover at 8x your salary
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
  
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Sales and Management

• Industries

  Utilities

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