River Insights and Improvement Manager

Hello, we’re Severn Trent, officially one of the UK’s Top 50 places to work. We pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic, innovative, and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered to do right for our customers, communities, and the environment.

If you’re ready to elevate your career with a company recognised for its excellence and employee satisfaction, then this could be the opportunity for you.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW

We have an opportunity for you to join our Water Quality and Environment team as our new River Insights and Improvement Manager.

In your new role you’ll be central to our River Protection team, transforming river health and providing valuable insights. You’ll work with external and internal stakeholders, enhancing performance and driving the success of our river programs.

You’ll lead on projects for Bathing Rivers, River Water Quality, and RNAGs, ensuring effective documentation and management. You’ll support alignment across programs, provide reliable data for media enquiries, present findings to internal teams, and share project outputs with various audiences, including operational teams, communications teams, regulators, and customers.

The location of this role is flexible depending on where you live in the Severn Trent region. If you're based in or around the Midlands, we'd love to hear from you.

Some of your other key accountabilities will include:

Ensuring your programmes are on track and communicating progress to stakeholders.
Coordinate and manage a variety of internal and external stakeholders, ranging from regulatory or partnership work, to providing regular updates to the business on progress.
Lead through the appropriate documentation to ensure effective assurance and programme risks are managed to achieve River Programme outcomes.
Use your technical knowledge to identify recommended business improvement changes and business growth opportunities, including the delivery of a river hub to ensure a one stop shop for River Insights for the business.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

Are you an Excel expert with a passion for turning numbers into narratives? We're looking for someone highly skilled in Excel, capable of working with large and complex data sets. You should be able to uncover trends, draw meaningful insights, and tell compelling stories through data. If you're analytical, detail-oriented, and love making data come alive—this role is for you!

This role requires developing a strong understanding of environmental topics such as rivers, water quality, waste assets, and water resources. You'll need sharp analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to interpret external factors affecting river health. Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential, as you'll engage with both internal teams and external bodies, including regulators. Presenting insights clearly and building technical and regulatory expertise are key parts of the role.

WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU

Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent, and we’ll reward you for it too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.

With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Seven Trent family:

28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,250 per annum based on company performance)
Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
Dedicated training and development with our ‘Academy’
Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
Family friendly policies (including, a year off fully paid maternity and adoption leave)
Two volunteering days per year

WHATS NEXT?

We can’t wait to hear from you.

Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare.

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