As an Investment Strategy Manager you will play a vital part in ensuring Affinity Water can demonstrably select the right investments to deliver high quality drinking water to our diverse customer base both now and in the future.

You will develop and manage Affinity Water’s strategic investment planning capability to deliver our long and short term Totex investment plans. You will ensure we develop and optimise our investment plans in accordance with asset management best practice, demonstrating line of sight between our outcomes and investment decisions through effectively managing risk and benefits.

As a regulated water company in the UK, we need to make intelligent strategic investment decisions to manage our long-term and short-term investments. In this role, you will be responsible for managing and further developing Affinity Water’s strategic investment planning capability in line with the Institute of Asset Management’s Subject Specific Guidelines.

You will work within the Strategic Asset Management and Insight team and be managing a small team of your own with cross-functional engagement to coordinate business needs/insights and develop our service measure framework. This role will also require familiarity with Copperleaf (or similar) Investment Planning tools.

What you'll be doing

• Develop and manage Affinity Water’s strategic investment planning capability in line with best practice asset management principles
• Manage a small team 
• Engage with Ofwat and other industry partners to articulate and develop Affinity Water’s approach to strategic planning
• Engage across the business and regulatory stakeholders to gather investment requirements and key outcomes to inform investment prioritisation
• Lead development of a company-wide value framework against which investments can be assessed to establish line of sight
• Lead the embedding of Copperleaf to analyse data and identify the most effective ways to allocate and optimise Capex/Opex expenditure within the Delivery Plan
• Identify metrics to analyse investment and support optimisation of investment decisions to deliver business outcomes
• Support the development of risk-based investment decision making frameworks across programmes
• Support the standardisation of asset health measurement across asset investment decision making

What you need 

• Experience / Knowledge of Strategic investment planning in Asset intensive organisations (eg. Value framework, line of sight, etc ) 
• Experience in asset intensive industry
• Knowledge of UK water sector and regulatory regime
• Experience working cross-directorate within large organisations
• Experience working with enterprise asset managements systems (EAMS) and portfolio optimisation tools
• Experience supporting/leading organisational change
• Degree in engineering -Desirable
• Institute of Asset Management Certificate - Desirable

For full Job Description please contact Hayley.savory@affinitywater.co.uk

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary based on skills and experience
• Annual car allowance £4,305 
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26 days rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Disability confident (if you need to apply through a different format, please contact the Talent Acquisition Partner for this role)

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

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