Enterprise Content Lead

Circa £62,500 (depending on skills and experience) Permanent 37 hours a week (Flexible working opportunities can be discussed) Huntingdon, Peterborough, Lincoln or Norwich Competitive pension scheme – Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7% Personal private healthcare Make every drop of your potential count! Join our Digital, Data and Technology team and help shape how content is governed, found and used across Anglian Water.

What you'll be doing

• Protect, improve and evolve Microsoft 365 content platforms, including SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, site structures, metadata, term stores, retention labels, permissions and governance.
• Establish and maintain governance processes that support content quality, accuracy, consistency, security and effective information lifecycle management.
• Lead the lifecycle management of SharePoint sites, site collections and OneDrive content, ensuring corporate information is retained and transferred appropriately.
• Use analytics and performance measures to identify trends, improve content management and support data-led decisions.
• Shape the strategic development of enterprise content, advanced search and discovery capabilities, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation and natural language processing.
• Provide expert knowledge-management consultancy and resolve second-line support incidents within agreed service levels.
• Maintain service-support knowledge articles, templates, standards and processes, keeping pace with Microsoft updates and future capability roadmaps.
• Lead the development, maturity and capability of our content communities through learning pathways, training, guidance, events and engaging communications.
• Build effective relationships with technical teams, internal communications, learning specialists, suppliers and colleagues across the business.
• Champion safe working, continuous improvement and high standards of compliance.

What we're looking for

• Microsoft 365 SharePoint Administration certification.
• Extensive professional experience managing intranets, processes and content taxonomies.
• Expert knowledge of SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Microsoft 365 Groups and relevant security and compliance administration.
• Experience of SharePoint administration using ShareGate.
• Experience using web, search, user-journey and OneDrive analytics to measure performance and guide improvements.
• Advanced capability in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Forms and SharePoint Lists.
• Excellent written, verbal and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate clearly at all organisational levels.
• Strong organisation and prioritisation skills, with experience managing several workstreams and stakeholder expectations at once.
• The credibility and influencing skills to embed content applications into business-as-usual activity.
• A learning mindset and the drive to stay current with Microsoft 365, advanced search and discovery, and content-related artificial intelligence capabilities.

Desirable

• Knowledge of Power Automate, Power Apps, Microsoft Syntex, Viva Engage, SharePoint and Copilot agents, including how these applications connect across Microsoft 365.
• Experience creating and applying PowerShell scripts.
• Experience managing contractors or delivery partners.
• A strong understanding of stakeholder and client management.

Why join Anglian Water?

Anglian Water is committed to delivering a sustainable future for our region and the communities we serve. In this role, your expertise will directly improve how colleagues find, manage and trust the information they need, supporting better decisions and more efficient ways of working. You’ll join a collaborative digital team where you can influence strategy, develop innovative capabilities and help colleagues get more from modern content and search technologies.

Benefits

• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 7% (For a combined contribution of up to 21%)
• Personal private healthcare
• Annual bonus scheme
• 26 days' annual leave, rising with service, plus bank holidays, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter public holidays for days that are important to you.
• Life cover at eight times your salary.
• Personal accident cover of up to five times your salary.
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle.
• Free parking at our offices, sites and leisure parks.
• Family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks' full pay for maternity and adoption leave, four weeks' paternity or partner pay, and the opportunity for shared parental pay.

Inclusion at Anglian Water

We welcome everyone! As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all qualified applicants, no matter their gender identity, ethnicity, nationality, religion, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or other protected characteristic. We hire and reward based on merit, helping everyone to reach their full potential. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know and we’ll be happy to support you.

Closing Date: 18th October 2026 #loveeverydrop! #LI-LJ1

We are committed to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve in both our workforce and our supply chain partners to help us to understand and meet the needs of our customers. We are passionate and dedicated to the learning and development of our people, making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential. We want to give everyone equal access to our recruitment process. If you have a disability or long-term condition, including neurodiversity and mental health conditions, we’ll support you throughout your application, and make any adjustments to make sure your disability or long-term condition is not a barrier to recruitment. If you need any support, please get reach out to our team ’

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