Company description:
Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.
Job description:
Resilience Partnership Portfolio Manager


Salary & Benefits : £50,876 - £60,000 per annum dependent on experience, a company car lease/allowance scheme, annual incentive related bonus (up to 10% of annual salary), private health care, attractive pension scheme (Up to 10% company contribution), life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary and 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and a wellness day. We also offer a fantastic flexible benefits package, where you can choose from benefits such as health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover. Colleagues also have access to a retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!


Location: Bradford/ Hybrid Working (a mix of office and home working)


Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday Friday between the working window of 8:00am-6:00pm.


We have an exciting opportunity for a Resilience Partnership Portfolio Manager to join the Strategy & Regulation function at Yorkshire Water.

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, its so much more than this.
We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshires water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the regions health, wellbeing, and prosperity.
New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.
The Resilience Partnership Portfolio Manager sits within our Strategy & Regulation function. We have a key aim to deliver more for our customers and the environment by working in partnership, wherever the opportunity arises. We know that an opportunistic approach allows us the flexibility needed to work with partners who are adhering to different timescales and demands. With our strategic planning partner, Stantec, we have created a governance framework which allows us to keep partnership opportunities under regular review so that these can be identified throughout the planning period.
Through enhancing existing relationships and building new ones, we will look to create value across our programmes by aligning investment and seeking opportunities to work with those who can enhance our offering. This could involve coordinating activity within a set location to minimise disruption and optimise infrastructure improvements, managing land for multiple outcomes.

Where you fit in


As Resilience Partnership Portfolio Manager you will take a lead role in developing partnership working in the North and East of Yorkshire. You will work across the business, and with our external partners, to identify opportunities to align investment and priorities with others to facilitate collaborative working.

Youll work in our Strategic Partnerships team with a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary team to ensure we are effectively collaborating and working with external organisations to find opportunities to deliver more for our customers and the environment.

You will work closely with Directors, Senior Leaders, People Leaders and colleagues from across the Kelda Group and the Partnership Teams to bring initiatives to life. Turning concepts into reality through innovative partnership solutions, testing boundaries and contributing to new ways of working that become exemplary within the industry.

You will


Be accountable for identifying and developing new partnerships to align objectives and investment opportunities to deliver greater benefits for customers and environment
Manage a range of different projects from inception through to completion.
Work across Yorkshire Water and the partnership team to find solutions and break down barriers to allow the successful delivery of projects as smoothly as possible
Drive delivery individually and through virtual teams across the business and partnership to achieve the Living with Water goals and aspirations
Manage projects within the governance framework set out to drive and deliver
Champion a nature first approach
Lead with passion, determination and drive to push the boundaries of traditional approaches to deliver efficient and effective partnership and nature based solutions
Deliver excellent performance by setting clear expectations linked to business and partnership targets, having meaningful performance discussions that recognise and reward the right performance and behaviours and challenges where individual performance and behaviours do not meet expectations.
Drive excellent standards and performance in health and safety, risk management and control of work and ensure compliance with the Yorkshire Water Safety Policy.
Pro-actively manage all expenditure and cash payments for the projects in the portfolio and maintain a consistent focus on regular financial forecasts.

What skills and qualifications you will need:


You will have sound water industry knowledge of waste and/or water collection / distribution, treatment and recycling
Previous experience of working with external stakeholders to deliver common goals. Also previous experience of stakeholder and peer-group relationships that protect company reputation and influence on a national scale
Previous experience of managing projects with a proven track record of driving sustainable performance against challenging business targets.
Experience of managing and embedding large-scale innovative change.
Experience of strategic thinking, establishing clear strategic direction and implementing plans to deliver.
Experience of business planning, resource and budget management.
Exceptional influencing and communication skills with proven ability to manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders and drive the right culture and behaviours.
Experience of conflict resolution.
Experience of compiling, assessment, interpretation and communication of data, including ability to clearly present key items and risks to senior managers and Board.
Critical thinking and problem solving.
Empathetic, supportive, able to work well on your own initiative and also as part of a wider team</