Senior Digital Project Manager

In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities and the environment to thrive.
As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround.

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for shaping, defining, managing and delivering a coherent set of activities across one or more projects within the Thames Digital team reporting into a Programme Manager. They will need to be able to define project scope, outcomes and run the project/s to the expected standards of time, quality and budget whilst engaging and managing the project/s wider stakeholders.

What you’ll be doing as a Senior Project Manager:

• Lead and manage project activities / delivery team/s.
• Define and baseline the project’s scope, plan and budget that will successfully deliver the business outcomes / objectives.
• Identify, engage and manage direct and indirect stakeholders appropriately in context of their role within the project/s.
• Establish and manage regular project review meetings covering cost, schedule, resources, RAID and RAG statuses.

Effective management of risks, issues and costs:

• Identify and manage RAID items within the project and escalate where appropriate.
• Manage project change (scope, time, budget) within agreed tolerances or escalate changes to the project control board/s.

Follow agreed governance standards across the project/s lifecycle/s

• Attend project initiation workshops and creation of any associated material to instigate a new project.
• Create project closure reports and lead lessons learned workshops.

Base Location: Clearwater Court, Reading - Hybrid
Working Pattern or hours: Full Time – 36 hours a week

What you should bring to the role
We want to bring together a team of brilliant tech minds with game changing ideas. We’re looking for people who will help us re-imagine the way we work and the way we get things done:

• A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
• Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
• People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.

You will also be able to demonstrate:

• Experience of Digital / IT project management delivery role
• Experience of financial management up to £3m per annum
• Experience of Agile and/or Product Management delivery methodologies
• Direct line management experience and advantage but not essential
• Knowledge of infrastructure and IT (Technical delivery projects)
• PRINCE 2 Practitioner or equivalent experience in a digital environment

It would be desirable if you also demonstrated:

• Experience in delivering Cyber projects and adherence to regulatory standards
• Understanding of Network infrastructure both at a local and Wide area level
• Understanding of Security tool sets and vendors

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary up to £80,000 per annum depending on experience
• Annual Leave 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays)
• Car Allowance
• Annual Bonus
• Private Medical Health Care
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing

Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business, meet colleagues and earn some extra money along the way.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.