Regulatory Economics Manager

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Lead the Regulatory Economics Function Supporting Scotlands Water and Wastewater Services

Were looking for an experienced and influential Regulatory Economics Manager to lead a specialist team of economists and provide rigorous economic insight that supports Scottish Waters regulatory obligations and longterm strategic decisionmaking. This is a pivotal leadership role helping the business understand demonstrate and communicate value efficiency and affordability while supporting effective investment decisions that deliver for customers across Scotland.

Sitting at the heart of Strategy & Regulation the role plays a key part in shaping how Scottish Water responds to the requirements of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland (WICS) and how robust economic evidence is embedded across business planning investment prioritisation and performance frameworks.

The role

This is a senior and highly influential role responsible for developing and managing a highperforming team of economists and ensuring strong practical economic analysis informs decisionmaking at every level of the organisation. The role requires a confident leader who can bring clarity to complex regulatory and economic issues and communicate insight challenge and recommendations clearly to senior leaders and noneconomists alike.

Working closely with colleagues across Strategy & Regulation Finance investment planning and capital delivery the Regulatory Economics Manager ensures Scottish Waters economic analysis and evidence is robust and tailored to the needs of both the business and our economic regulator. The role plays a key part in strengthening the quality and credibility of economic submissions to WICS supporting compliance and reinforcing confidence in Scottish Waters approach to business decision-making and performance reporting.

What youll do

The Regulatory Economics Managers responsibilities include overseeing analysis of efficiency and performance preparing robust evidence for regulatory submissions and presenting complex economic reasoning clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders. The role also provides rigorous economic input and challenge to support longerterm planning and policy development including work on supply and demand balance surface water management and the future of charging for services.

In addition you will work with the Business Economics Manager in developing testing and implementing pragmatic costbenefit analysis tools and costing approaches that support sound investment decisionmaking from longterm strategic assessments through to projectlevel decisions.

A core part of the role is ensuring economic insight is understood trusted and used across the business. This means building strong relationships influencing key decisionmaking forums and helping colleagues apply economic tools and analysis in a practical and proportionate way. The role also has joint accountability for managing a significant consultancy budget ensuring external support delivers value for money and aligns with agreed priorities.

What youll bring

Youll bring significant professional experience in economics with strong regulatory economics expertise and the ability to apply economic reasoning to realworld commercial and strategic decisions. A masterslevel qualification in Economics or equivalent depth of study is essential alongside a track record of delivering highquality analysis in a complex multistakeholder environment.

Youll be a confident and credible leader with experience of recruiting coaching mentoring and developing economists and building capability within a specialist team. Strong stakeholdermanagement and communication skills are critical with the ability to explain economic insight and challenge clearly concisely and persuasively to senior decisionmakers and nonspecialist audiences.

Youll also bring evidence of developing and implementing a range of technical economic analysis such as econometric analysis of cost efficiency costbenefit analysis and costing methodologies and of shaping approaches that support strategic and investment decisions. Experience of working in or alongside a regulated or infrastructurebased environment is highly desirable particularly where economic evidence plays a central role in regulatory and business planning.

What the role is offering

This is a key leadership role within Strategy & Regulation offering the opportunity to influence Scottish Waters approach to regulation investment and longterm decisionmaking at a national level. Youll be part of a collaborative valuesdriven environment where highquality analysis and expert insight directly support customer outcomes affordability and longterm resilience.

The role provides scope to shape how economic capability is embedded across the organisation and to develop a team whose work has real impact on strategic priorities and regulatory outcomes.

Looking out for you

While the work we do is important we know its not the only thing that matters. Thats why we make sure you have everything you need to achieve a good worklife balance. This role will occasionally require work outside of normal working hours but youll have plenty of time to recharge with 38 days of holiday each year including public holidays. You can also buy up to five additional days if you need more time and benefit from a truly flexible approach to worklife balance including opportunities to volunteer in your community.

We support major life events through our familyfriendly policies covering adoption maternity and parental leave and we embrace flexible working for the everyday. For your future we offer a defined benefit pension the know what youll get when you retire kind along with generous life assurance. You can also expect an annual company bonus and access to SW Splash providing rewards that can help you save money on holidays bills and shopping.

The post is fulltime based on 35 hours per week with flexible working hours. Applications from those wishing to apply for alternative working patterns or flexible working arrangements are welcome.

The not-so-small print

This role will be at M1Level. A competitive package is on offer which includes a salary starting from 69247 with the ability to advance to 86887 based on consistent out-performance.

Please include with your application a role specific covering letter (maximum 500 words) outlining your reason for applying and why you believe you are suitable for the role.

If youre interested in this role or know someone else who might be - well be accepting applications until midnight on Tuesday 16th June 2026

We operate Balanced Hybrid working at Scottish Water and we encourage people to work half their time in a Scottish Water location.

Job offers at Scottish Water are conditional and will be confirmed on completion of our pre-employment screening e.g. referencing criminal record checks license checks etc. Screening is conducted on our behalf by a third party and must be completed before your start date. Dont worry - well only start these checks once youve accepted an offer.

A few final things worth knowing

Research shows that some people avoid applying for jobs unless they can meet every single criteria. If youre interested in this job but dont tick all the boxes apply anyway! We hardly ever hire people who can do every part of a job from Day One. Everyone has a learning curve. So dont rule yourself out!

Let us know if there are any changes we can make to our recruitment process to help you perform at your best. Lots of our people have disabilities or neurodiverse conditions (including some of our recruiters!). Were also aware that some people might be experiencing temporary challenges because of life events like menopause. Were very used to making adjustments so please dont be afraid to ask.

As part of our commitment to developing a flourishing Scotland its important that all our employees are Scottish taxpayers. If you join us your home address will need to be in Scotland. If you dont already live here youll need to commit to moving here within your first three months.

Please note Scottish Water takes the safety health and wellbeing of our employees colleagues and customers very seriously and as such you may be subject to Drug & Alcohol testing in line with our policy.

Finally (finally!) candidates who havent submitted an application in the last 12 months will have their records removed from our recruitment database. You wont need to do anything. Your data will be automatically deleted.

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