Location
Reading

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Up to £70,000 per annum, depending on experience

About the Role
Shape the future of catchment partnerships and deliver real environmental outcomes. As an ambitious and collaborative Environmental Planning and Delivery Manager, you will lead the next phase of partnership working across our catchments. This role is central to how we work with others to deliver meaningful environmental improvements—supporting regulatory obligations while creating wider benefits for rivers, communities, and ecosystems. Building on the success of our Smarter Water Catchments and Flagship Chalk Stream programmes, you will play a key role in evolving how we design and deliver partnership projects by bringing together stakeholders, funding, and innovative delivery models to achieve outcomes that matter.

This high-impact role offers real scope to embed catchment and partnership working across the business. You will lead the development and delivery of partnership projects that meet WINEP obligations for AMP8, while creating a robust pipeline of opportunities to support AMP9 and beyond. Additionally, you will influence internal processes, decision-making, and procurement approaches to make partnership and co-delivery the norm rather than the exception.

Key responsibilities include:
- Leading the continuation and evolution of existing Smarter Water Catchment and Flagship Chalk Stream projects
- Designing and delivering new partnership-led solutions to meet AMP8 and WINEP requirements
- Developing a strong pipeline of catchment and partnership opportunities for future investment periods
- Working across the business to develop and improve processes that enable effective partnership delivery
- Exploring and implementing innovative funding and delivery models, including co-funding opportunities
- Building and maintaining trusted relationships with environmental stakeholders, regulators, communities, and delivery partners
- Ensuring learning from current initiatives is embedded into future plans and approaches

Experience
- Senior-level experience in catchment, environmental, or partnership planning, ideally within the utilities or regulated sector
- Proven track record of successful project or programme delivery
- Strong stakeholder management skills with confidence to engage diverse and challenging audiences
- Experience in setting direction, leading change, and influencing others
- Strong commercial and financial awareness, ideally within a regulated environment

About you
- An environmentally based degree or equivalent professional experience
- Background in environmental science, planning, or a related discipline
- Excellent communication, influencing, and presentation skills
- Good understanding of the water industry, environmental policy landscape, and how water companies interface with communities and stakeholders

Qualifications
- Environmentally based degree or equivalent experience is required