Regulatory Planning Manager

Work Type

Permanent

Job Function

Strategy

Salary Range

£70,000

Base

South East Hub - Hybrid 3+ days office based

Closing date

What you’ll be responsible for

Reporting to the Strategy Director, the Senior Strategy Manager plays a central role in shaping Welsh Water’s strategic direction by leading the development of strategic content, coordinating long-term business planning, and liaising with stakeholders on strategic issues.

The role is responsible for supporting the end-to-end strategy and business planning processes, ensuring that long-term pathways, choices and trade-offs are clearly articulated, credible and grounded in evidence. The postholder brings together horizon scanning, insight and organisational inputs to develop coherent strategic narratives that inform Executive and Board decision-making.

Key responsibilities of the role

• Play a leading role in development and oversight of Dŵr Cymru’s long-term corporate strategy.
• Develop and articulate long-term planning pathways and directional choices, supporting clarity on options, dependencies and implications over 5, 10 and 25-year horizons.
• Lead and coordinate horizon scanning activity across political, regulatory, environmental, technological and societal domains, translating emerging trends into strategic insights and implications.
• Manage strategic planning frameworks and governance, ensuring alignment between corporate strategy, business planning and asset investment.
• Prepare high-quality written materials for Executive and Board consideration, including strategy papers, long-term plans and options narratives.
• Work closely with Regulation, Finance, Asset Planning, Customer and Operations teams to ensure long-term plans are informed by evidence.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of tools to promote a strong strategic culture across the organisation, encouraging long-term thinking, collaboration and evidence-based decision-making

About You

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent professional qualification in strategy, business, economics, public policy, social science or a related discipline.

Experience

• Experience operating in regulated, infrastructure companies.
• Proven experience leading or supporting structured strategy development processes and multi-year business planning, from early thinking through to Executive and Board sign-off.
• Strong track record of authoring high-quality strategy documents, long-term plans or position papers for senior decision-makers.
• Experience synthesising inputs from multiple disciplines (e.g. insight, regulation, finance, operations) into coherent long-term narratives.
• Experience undertaking or coordinating horizon scanning and translating emerging trends into strategic implications.
• Significant senior-level experience working in strategy development, regulatory policy or business planning within a complex, preferably regulated, organisation.

Knowledge & Skills

• Deep knowledge of the UK water sector, regulatory environment, government policy drivers and price reviews.
• Strong understanding of strategy development methodologies, including long-term planning and pathway-based approaches.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex data and insight into strategic recommendations.
• Exceptional written communication and document authorship skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively across different parts of an organisation, forming strong networks.
• Strong critical thinking, synthesis and judgement.
• Ability to work effectively with senior stakeholders across organisational boundaries.

Good to know

Whilst this role can be worked hybrid, there's a requirement for at least 3 days office (Linea/Cardiff St Mellons office).

This role will close when a suitable candidate has been found. Please submit your application ASAP.

Benefits

As well as a market competitive salary, 34 days annual leave (pro rata, including public holidays), we offer a range of employee benefits and rewards including:

• Variable pay schemes
• Enhanced employer pension contributions – Up to 11% employer contributions
• Several internal employee networks including Embrace, LGBT+, Neurodiverse, Disability, Women of Welsh Water, Parents, Wellbeing and many more...
• Enhanced family friendly policies
• Progression opportunities, including the ability to apply for funded training and coaching and mentoring programmes
• Reduction on high street & online shopping
• Cycle to work scheme/Car-leasing scheme
• Online GP service
• Voluntary private healthcare
• Free mortgage brokering service
• An employee assistance programme for employees and their immediate family
• Free Headspace App to support your wellbeing
• Colleague matched fundraising scheme up to the value of £500 per year for your chosen charity
• 20% off all Welsh Water visitor attraction centres and gift shops
• Flexible working patterns
• We also recruit our own volunteer Wellbeing Champions (on an annual basis) - successful recruits will receive full i-act and StRaW training

Whilst also working for a not-for profit company that truly cares about earning the trust of customers everyday, and about looking after our beautiful environment.

Dŵr Cymru Cyf, a limited company registered in Wales No. 2366777. Registered office: Linea, Fortran Road, St. Mellons, Cardiff CF3 0LT

Dŵr Cymru Cyf 2019.