Asset Investment Planning Manager

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Job Title: Asset Investment Planning Manager

Location: Bristol - 2 days in office

Contract Type: 6 months - possibility for extension or perm

Are you ready to take the lead in shaping the future of asset investment within the utilities sector? Our client is seeking an enthusiastic and driven Asset Investment Planning Manager to join their dynamic Asset Management function. This newly created role presents an exciting opportunity to deliver optimised, data-driven decision-making for asset investments that directly impact the network and its customers.

Overview

In this role, you and your team will translate business plans, regulatory commitments, and long-term strategies into tactical delivery plans for operational teams. These plans will help ensure that asset risks related to condition, criticality and performance are effectively managed.

You will also maintain a central view of asset investment drivers across the business, supporting better long-term and whole-system decisions. This includes identifying synergies between condition-based replacement and refurbishment, load-related reinforcement, customer connections, business commitments, and regulatory mechanisms. You will balance multiple metrics such as asset health and criticality, network risk, whole-life cost, customer service measures, and delivery and resourcing constraints.

This role is ideal for candidates with a strong background in the utilities sector, particularly electricity, who understand the unique challenges and opportunities of managing complex networks.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop multi-year and annual condition-based asset investment plans aligned to long-term asset strategy, policy, and regulatory obligations.
• Integrate load and non-load investment drivers to identify synergies and whole-system opportunities that improve network health, reduce outages, and deliver financial efficiencies.
• Produce robust decision-making frameworks and guidance to support operational asset investment decisions.
• Understand and incorporate deliverability constraints, validating planning assumptions such as unit costs through a consistent feedback loop between delivery and planning.
• Collaborate with digital and IT teams to drive improvements in planning tools, data, and systems that support investment planning.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives and embed a culture of innovation and efficiency within the team.

Knowledge, Experience and Technical Expertise

• Expertise in investment planning for complex portfolios or programmes, with a strong understanding of associated benefits, risks, and strategic trade-offs.
• Experience in portfolio optimisation across multiple drivers and business priorities.
• Working knowledge of digital platforms and tools that support investment planning and optimisation.
• Industry experience within electricity distribution or a similar asset-intensive, regulated environment.
• Strong analytical capability, able to interpret and apply insight to multidisciplinary programmes.
• Understanding of regulatory price control frameworks (e.g., RIIO or similar) and associated funding mechanisms.
• Advanced stakeholder management skills with the ability to balance varied and sometimes competing needs.
• Strong IT proficiency; experience with industry-specific systems is beneficial.
• Demonstrated people-management capability, including developing teams and succession planning.
• Experience within asset management disciplines such as asset strategy or asset planning.
• Experience working within new, evolving, or transforming teams, or leading business change initiatives.

Qualifications

• Degree-level education in a relevant field such as Engineering, Business, Economics, or Finance.
• Professional membership of a relevant body (e.g., IAM, ICE) and a commitment to ongoing professional development.

Join a vibrant team where your ideas are valued, and your professional growth is supported. Apply now to be part of a forward-thinking organisation that is shaping the future of utilities!

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