Strategic Portfolio Lead

Circa 80k salary depending on skills and experience

Permanent

Full-time with flexibility for part-time

Location: Peterborough Hybrid Working

Plan smarter investments for resilient services and sustainable futures.

This is a senior role at the heart of shaping & strengthening the organisations mediumterm investment planning capability - turning strategic ambition regulatory requirements & risk into prioritised deliverable investment plans that create lasting value for customers communities & the environment.

Working closely with senior stakeholders with exposure to Executive stakeholders you will ensure future investment choices are evidencebased riskinformed and operationally aligned. As part of that approach you will balance performance asset resilience affordability and compliance while maintaining alignment with our statutory frameworks.

A key part of the role is applying systems and placebased thinking approach to investment planning. You will take a wholesystem view across catchments communities and infrastructure; ensuring interactions dependencies and tradeoffs across programmes and geographies are understood and managed.

Bringing together water resources drainage environmental outcomes asset health & resilience you will create cohesive prioritised mediumterm plans - articulating risk and options to support confident decision making at senior levels and supports securing future investment at the regulatory interface.

What you will do

• You will shape investment strategy spanning complex multiasset systems and longterm regulatory commitments operating at the interface between asset strategy delivery and regulation.

• Lead on the development of mediumterm investment portfolios translating strategy risk and regulatory drivers into future prioritised sequenced and deliverable programmes.

• Optimise investment across systems using strong asset intelligence operational insight and wholelife value principles.

• Apply systems and placebased planning ensuring future investment decisions reflect how assets interact across networks and environments.

• Shape future investment strategies ensuring decisions made today support longterm resilience and sustainability.

• Support delivery of current investment programmes while maintaining alignment with longerterm strategic objectives.

• Provide robust challenge and assurance through governance forums clearly communicating complex risks tradeoffs and choices to senior leaders.

What we are looking for

You will be a highly analytical commercially minded professional with strong credibility in asset management and investment planning comfortable operating in complex regulated environments.

Essential experience and skills:

• Significant experience in asset management strategic or mediumterm investment planning or infrastructure portfolio management.

• Proven ability to develop and prioritise investment plans using riskbased evidenceled approaches.

• Strong systemsthinking capability integrating operational environmental and regulatory drivers.

• Confidence interpreting asset condition performance resilience and risk data to inform investment decisions.

• Ability to influence and challenge senior stakeholders with clear effective communication skills.

• Degree in Engineering Asset Management Environmental Science Systems Engineering or a related discipline.

Desirable:

• Chartered Engineer or Chartered/Certified Asset Management professional.

• Experience in the water sector or other regulated infrastructure sectors.

• Knowledge of climate change adaptation longterm risk modelling and resilience planning.

• Experience with systems modelling asset health forecasting or investment optimisation techniques.

As a valued employee youll be entitled to:

• Full private healthcare with no excess

• 26 days leave rising with service Bank Holidays with the option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion

• A flexible and friendly working culture

• Competitive pension scheme we double-match your contributions up to 6%

• Life Assurance at eight times your salary

• Personal Accident cover up to 5x your salary

• Bonus Scheme

• Lots of great discounts

Why apply

• This is a rare opportunity to shape how future major investment choices are made influencing programmes that will have a lasting impact on customers communities and the environment.

• You will operate at the centre of the organisation working with senior leaders to turn strategy into action - balancing risk resilience growth and affordability across complex systems.

• The role offers real visibility challenge and scope to leave a meaningful legacy in how investment is planned and delivered.

Closing date: 20th May 2026

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