Manager of Asset Information & Insights

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water: 

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience, 3a, up to £85,000
• A company car benefit (£7200 allowance)
• Annual incentive related bonus (up to 20% of salary)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution) 
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays – plus two extra wellness days!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary 
• A great benefits package – choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.  
• Retail savings scheme  
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more! 

Location: Based at Buttershaw Bradford (Leeds Valley Park from late Summer 2026). Hybrid working

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday working rolling, typically 2 - 3 office / on-site days / week.

We have an exciting opportunity for a Manager of Asset Information & Insights to join the Strategic Asset Management & Innovation Team at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire’s water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region’s health, wellbeing, and prosperity. 

Where you fit in:

We are looking for a Manager of Asset Information & Insights to lead our asset intelligence capability. This is a strategically important leadership role, responsible for establishing asset data, information standards and providing independent assurance that asset data used across business functions is trusted and decision-ready. The role is also intended to ensure that the information used to support strategic planning, asset management objectives and regulatory requirements is trusted, assured and compliant.

Working across Operations, Engineering, IT/Digital, Planning and the wider Asset Management function, the role will help ensure Yorkshire Water has high-quality, trusted and decision-ready asset information that supports performance, reliability, compliance and long-term planning. 

The role will also provide leadership on the development and implementation of the Asset Information Strategy (AIS) and on the information governance, standards and assurance needed to support the Strategic Asset Management Plan (SAMP) and asset management system.

This role is ideal for someone who combines strategic thinking with practical leadership, and who can bring clarity, influence and challenge across a complex, asset-intensive business.

Role responsibilities:

• Lead the Asset Intelligence Strategy and Asset Information Strategy (AIS), setting clear governance, standards, ownership and continual improvement aligned to the SAMP, Asset Management Policy, ISO 55001 and regulatory expectations.
• Establish and operate a formal assurance framework for asset information and insight, including standards, controls and assurance over key data, information flows, analytical outputs and supporting processes.
• Ensure only trusted, decision-ready and traceable information is used to develop, refresh and assure the next-generation SAMP and related asset management artefacts, translating organisational objectives into evidence-based asset management objectives.
• Maintain clear line of sight from objectives to asset information requirements, asset health insight and investment/operational decisions, ensuring analytics demonstrably support customer, resilience, environmental, compliance and value outcomes.
• Lead the asset intelligence framework and capability for performance, condition, asset health indicators and predictive models, strengthening data quality, information assurance and asset knowledge management across the asset lifecycle.
• Work across Operations, Engineering, IT/Digital, Planning and governance forums to embed asset insight into decisions and regulatory reporting; maintain ISO 55001 documented information and controls; lead AMMA (Information/Insight) improvement; and develop the team and wider organisational data literacy.

What skills & qualifications you will need:

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in engineering, data science, asset management or a related field.
• Strong understanding of asset management principles and lifecycle management, including knowledge of ISO 55000 standards.
• Proven experience in an asset management or asset information leadership role within a regulated utility or similar asset-intensive industry.
• Strong experience working with asset information systems and data, including tools such as GIS, enterprise asset management / maintenance systems, and BI tools, with the ability to analyse asset performance data and translate insight into action.
• Experience of shaping information governance, standards, assurance and improvement arrangements in support of strategic planning, regulatory requirements and asset management decision-making.
• Proven ability to influence without authority and provide constructive challenge to senior peers in a matrix or cross-functional environment.

You will also benefit from having:

• Chartered status or equivalent professional qualification in asset management.
• Experience in the water sector or another highly regulated utility or asset-intensive environment, with understanding of regulators’ requirements and standards.
• Familiarity with asset health frameworks and tools such as condition grading systems, risk modelling or predictive analytics software, and awareness of emerging digital innovations in asset management.
• Experience contributing to or leading asset management transformation, data improvement or information strategy programmes, including the development or refresh of strategic asset management artefacts.
• Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it’s important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn’t always easy! 

Why Join Yorkshire Water?

• Play a key role in supporting reliable water and wastewater services for over 5 million people in Yorkshire.
• Help lead transformation and innovation in how Yorkshire Water uses data, insight and analytics to improve asset health and decision-making.
• Play a central role in ensuring that Yorkshire Water’s next-generation strategic asset management artefacts are supported by trusted, governed and decision-ready information, including the AIS, the SAMP and related ISO 55001 controls.
• Benefit from a collaborative environment with access to professional development and the opportunity to work closely with experts across engineering, operations and digital teams.

If you’re passionate about using data and intelligence to improve critical infrastructure and want to help shape the future of water for Yorkshire, we’d love to hear from you. Join us and make a real impact with Yorkshire Water.

Accessibility 

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.

Just a heads-up! We might start interviewing and close the position early, based on the response. To make sure you’re considered, please send in your application as soon as you can.

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.

All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

No agencies please.