Director of Operations Water

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Director of Operations Water

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The UK Water Industry is facing some of the greatest challenges and change required since privatisation to deliver enhanced customer and environmental outcomes and wider socio-economic benefits.

We are committed to investing in chosen long term relationships to enable us to fully understand our client’s corporate objectives and regulatory commitments. With the increasing pace of change in the world and an increasing complexity of challenges emerging, we recognise the need to take a holistic approach to managing the finite capacity of resources impacting the water sector. We will bring our collective expertise across all sectors and global markets to deliver sustainable, integrated and resilient solutions for our clients that will deliver the required benefits.

We also recognise that the UK Water Industry is a complex multi-stakeholder environment and the need to adopt collaborative working and innovative tools and techniques to optimise investment decisions and share best practice to deliver these benefits.

We have unique insight and experience across asset management, programme delivery and operational resilience and the rapidly evolving regulatory landscape and use this to support best value management decisions to deliver the required benefits.

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About the opportunity:

With the continual need to deliver more for less within the water sector, comes the drive from the regulator (Ofwat) to look at new opportunities to improve customer value. Emerging competition and markets will help the sector to deliver some of this value. This includes within the new AMP 7 price controls of Bioresources and Water Resources and will include Direct Procurement for Customers (DPC) and other Design, Build and Finance (DBFOM) arrangements.

Consistent with our water growth strategy to target major D&B, DPC and DBFOM opportunities as well as to continue to grow our existing frameworks, we are looking for someone to help us grow our commercial and technical capability. 

A proportion of this work will be sales and growth focusses, working with our key clients to develop opportunities. A proportion of this will also be focussed on the delivery of client work, predominantly in a technical leadership role.

Activities will include:

- Developing our bioresources DBFOM service offerings

- Positioning for, and developing DPC opportunities

- Developing strategies for accessing markets with our clients

- Wastewater process design and technology

Qualifications:

• Significant water sector experience

• Demonstrable commercial acumen

• Experience of PFI/DBFOM or other arrangement (preferably in the water sector)

• Ability to lead multi-disciplinary teams

• Ability to lead sales pursuits

• Technological / engineering experience in wastewater, water resources and / or bioresources

 

Desirable:

• Demonstrable presence / influence within the UK water industry

• Proven ability of achieving challenging business growth targets

• Proven ability / involvement in DPC

 

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Industry experience

Education: Bachelor

Seniority: Manager, Director, Professor

Years of experience: 10 to 20 years

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