Strategy and Regulation Manager – Sustainable Abstraction

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Information Commissioner's Office

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 1984

📋 Compliance

🔒 Cybersecurity

🏛️ Government

Compliance • Cybersecurity • Government

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) is a UK authority that promotes and enforces the principles of data protection and privacy. It empowers individuals and organizations through information by providing guidance on compliance with the UK GDPR, handling complaints related to data breaches, and ensuring fair processing of personal data. The ICO also educates the public about their information rights and addresses issues such as direct marketing and nuisance calls.

📋 Description

• Lead risk management for abstraction licence changes across AMP programmes, including WINEP and TLL • Maintain a central record of proposed licence changes, tracking drivers, risks, dependencies, and mitigations • Monitor progress and emerging risks, ensuring timely escalation and intervention where required • Identify when abstraction caps cannot be met and lead the development of robust Public Interest Cases (IROPI / OPI) • Engage proactively with regulators, consultants, and internal teams to secure outcomes that protect water supplies and enable compliance • Collaborate with the Sustainable Abstraction Programme Team to design environmental mitigation and compensatory measures • Shape and influence long ‑ term sustainable abstraction strategy, including innovative approaches such as dynamic abstraction licensing • Ensure abstraction needs and licence caps are fully and accurately reflected in WRMP29, PR29, and wider environmental programmes • Provide strategic insight on emerging regulatory trends, risks, and opportunities • Influence future regulatory direction through proactive engagement and policy shaping • Manage consultant support to deliver technical, regulatory, and evidence ‑ based case development • Champion a strong health, safety, and continuous improvement culture

🎯 Requirements

• Undergraduate degree level qualification or equivalent • Experience leading complex project or programme management activities • Strong experience working with regulators, ideally with in environmental or water sectors • Proven ability to develop and present robust, evidence based regulatory cases • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with confidence presenting to senior stakeholders • Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret emerging risks and complex data • Ability to lead, influence, and inspire across multidisciplinary teams • Highly organised, self-motivated , and comfortable managing competing priorities • Working towards chartered status (desirable) • Water company or utilities sector experience (desirable)

🏖️ Benefits

• Personal private health care • 26 days annual leave, rising with service, plus Bank Holidays • Option to swap Christmas and Easter holidays for those celebrated by your religion • Life cover at 8x your salary • Personal accident cover up to 5x your salary • Flexible working options • Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double matches your contribution up to 6% • Bonus scheme • A wide range of flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle