Senior Project Manager - Reading, United Kingdom - Thames Water

Thames Water

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Reading, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company.

We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.

At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.

What you'll be doing

The Senior Project Manager will be responsible for shaping, defining, managing, and delivering a coherent set of activities across a series of IT projects within the Thames Digital team or leading the delivery of large, complex technology enabling change projects.

They will need to be able to help define project scope, outcomes and run the project/s to the usual standards of time, quality and budget whilst engaging and managing the project/s wider stakeholders.

Role Responsibilities:

Lead a delivery team comprising Project Management, Business Analysis, Test Management, Service Introduction and Solution Architect capabilities
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
Establish regular project review meetings covering cost, schedule, resources, RAID and RAG statuses
Produce and / or review weekly project status reports
Resourcing (managing, forecasting, mentoring)
Attend project appraisal workshops / reviews and project kick off meetings
Maintain project/s cost models covering actual, accrual and forecast
Issue resolution and stakeholder management
Project escalation and resource prioritisation
Review project closure reports and attend lessons learned workshops
Attend the Thames Digital Gate 0 process to understand and manage demand
Identify and manage dependencies across projects, programmes and portfolios
Support and manage the project team/s to achieve objectives, milestones and deliverables
Identify, track, manage and resolve risks and issues within tolerance and escalate to project control board/s accordingly
Manage project change (scope, time, budget) within agreed tolerances or escalate changes to the project control board/s
Implement and manage agreed governance standards across the project/s lifecycle/s
Ensure all project/s follow the agreed delivery framework

What you should bring to the role:

Ensure stakeholders are well-informed and aligned to the project including running project boards and steering groups.
Implement effective governance and control to ensure informed decision making and effective delivery.
Clearly define, document, and deliver the project objectives relationships
Manage the costs of the projects within the approved budget and tolerance levels, in accordance with Thames Water standards.
Identify and secure the appropriate level and capability of resources required to deliver the projects
Completing reports as required by the investment manager of a programme, the PMO and Thames Water
Implementing and managing the required governance standards and boards to control the project and ensure effective delivery
Degree
Prince2 and MSP Practitioner would be beneficial
P3O qualification or good understanding

What's in it for you?

Our competitive salary and package include a bonus, car allowance, private healthcare, an excellent contributory pension and 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service.

Thames Water is a dynamic, rewarding, and diverse place to work, with opportunities around every corner.

If you join our team, you'll enjoy a fulfilling career, flexible working arrangements and a wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which ispacked full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Find out more about working at Thames Water.
We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. This means, that when a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers.

As part of your role, you'll be required to participate in a rota to provideCustomer Incident Support, as requested by the Company from time to time.

This may be by supporting our customers on the frontline as an ambassador or being part of the team managing the incident as a Control Tower Lead.

This is incredibly rewarding, and you'llbe given full training - it's also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.