Senior Asset Manager

Affinity Water have a fantastic opportunity to join us on a 12 month Fixed term contract as a Senior Asset Manager

The role

The Senior Asset Manager – Asset Intelligence sits within the wider Strategic Asset Management and Insight (SAMI) team in the Asset Strategy and Capital Delivery (ASCD) function and provides senior strategic leadership for asset intelligence, insight, and innovation across the directorate.

The role ensures asset related data and insight are applied intelligently and strategically to drive evidence-based decision-making, shape ASCD priorities, and strengthen organisational asset management capability.

Acting as a strategic guide, you will lead the asset intelligence agenda across ASCD, ensuring initiatives align with broader directorate objectives and organisational commitments.

You will champion innovative approaches to asset insight and analytics, oversee the delivery of dashboards, modelling, and advanced analytical solutions, and drive collaboration across teams and stakeholders.

The role leads, mentors, and develops the Asset Intelligence and Asset Insight teams, creating a culture of innovation, strategic thinking, and continuous improvement, working towards positioning Affinity Water as a sector leader in data-driven assetmanagement

What you need

• Degree in a numerate, analytical, or relevant technical discipline or equivalent professional experience
• Experience/knowledge of strategic asset intelligence, analytics, and insight in asset-intensive organisations
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel for data analysis and reporting
• Experience delivering innovative analytical solutions and dashboards to support decision-making
• Experience with Qlik or other data visualisation/reporting tools (e.g., Qlik, Power BI)
• Basic understanding of SQL for data extraction and manipulation
• Experience leading and developing teams of analysts and asset intelligence professionals
• Experience assessing and improving data insight/intelligence capabilities across an organisation

Full Job Description available on request -

Benefits:

• Competitive salary dependant on skills and experience
• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.
• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.
• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.
• A 'Celebration Day' in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.
• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)
• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.
• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.
• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.
• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.
• Life Assurance.

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we're not able to offer interviews to all, we'll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

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What if I need adjustments during the recruitment process?

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Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

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