Innovation Integration Lead
Circa £55,000dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours), with flexibility for part time working
Huntingdon

Dive into a world ofopportunity, andjoin our team!

We are looking for an Innovation IntegrationLeadto join ourResearch and Innovation team!

This roleis responsible fordriving the commercialisation and integration of innovation across Anglian Water, ensuring that 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 strategiesand strengtheninginternal capabilitiesfor adoption and scaling, supporting our wider Enterprise innovation capability.

This exciting role alsorepresentsinnovation in strategic forumsand supports programme leads in embedding outcomes into delivery plans, supporting the Innovation Integration Manager. Externally, this roleleveragespartnershipsand 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

• Identifyand 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-upof innovations into BusinessAsUsual

• 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’llbe 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 

• 26days 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 relationshipsbetween disparate companies – managing risk / reward

• Knowledge ofestablishingand working to governance, assurance, change management and reporting

• An understanding of the opportunities that innovative solutions and processes can bring to the business

• Aself starterwith 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 meanswe’llconsider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disabilitystatusor any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, andwe’recommitted to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date:16thJune 2026
Interviews: towards the end of June

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