About the role

Innovation Integration Lead

Circa £5 5 ,000
dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours), with flexibility for part time working

Huntingdon

Dive into a world of
opportunity, and
join our team!

We are looking for an Innovation Integration

Lead

to join our

Research and Innovation team!

This role

is responsible for

driving the commercialisation and integration of innovation across Anglian Water, ensuring th
at successful trials are scaled into operational solutions that support our purpose, through enabling changes that deliver efficiency, resilience, and customer value.

It also focuses on embedding learnings from innovation projects into future delivery strategies

and strengthening

internal capabilities

for adoption and scaling, supporting our wider Enterprise innovation capability.

This exciting role also

represents
innovation in strategic forums
and supports programme leads in embedding outcomes into delivery plans, supporting the Innovation Integration Manager. Externally, this role
leverages
partnerships
and sector frameworks to bring high-potential solutions into the business, ensuring benefits from industry-wide investments and exploring new models such as corporate venturing and incubators.

Key responsibilities

Identify

and develop commercial opportunities in areas such as bioresources and the circular economy, other new revenue streams and working with internal stakeholders to build robust business cases
Align the innovation portfolio with business priorities, enabling knowledge transfer, and challenging processes that hinder integration, to support scale-up
of innovations into Business
As

Usual

Attend academic / industry conferences and workshops
, alongside engagement with industry innovation forums such as Spring

Translate successful innovation trials into scalable, operational solutions across the business

Facilitate knowledge transfer and capability building across teams to support innovation adoption

We invest in our people - as a valued employee,

you’ll

be entitled to:

Personal private health care

Generous double match pension – contribute 7% and Anglian Water will contribute 14%, giving a total contribution of 21%
24-hour Virtual GP service for you and your household
26
days annual leave – rising with length of service and the ability to buy more
Life assurance (up to 8 x salary)
Personal accident cover (up to 5 x salary)
Excellent family friendly policies, such as 26 weeks full pay for maternity / adoption leave, as well as 4 weeks paid paternity / partner leave. Opportunity for shared parental pay

Bonus scheme

Flexible benefits and working culture to support your wellbeing
and lifestyle.
What does it take to be successful?
Experience in delivering complex and innovative projects/programmes
Awareness of digital and emerging technologies

Able to build relationships

between disparate companies – managing risk / reward

Knowledge of

establishing
and working to governance, assurance, change management and reporting
An understanding of the opportunities that innovative solutions and processes can bring to the business
A
self starter
with excellent organisational skills and a genuine enthusiasm for deliberately delivering differently

Able to work across teams and get buy-in to changes in processes and practices
, requiring excellent communication skills

Inclusion at Anglian Water

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means
we’ll
consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability
status
or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and
we’re
committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date

16 th

June 2026

Interviews: towards the end of June

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