Closing Date
2024-05-31
Workstream Lead Programme Manager - Capex
Location: Hybrid working in Durrington 2/3 days per week
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time 37 hours per week
Salary: Circa £72,000
Competitive benefits package including monthly vehicle allowance
There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!
Job Overview
This role will support, coordinate and provide day to day programme management and delivery support to a significant workstream within the wider transformation. It focusses on building the capability we need to ensure our readiness to deliver the significant uplift in the scale of our capital programmes through to 2030. The workstream will focus on changing components of our operating model, supporting new processes and ways of working. Across workstream, you will need ensure individual initiatives have robust business cases with a scope and set of actions that consider risks, issues and constraints, that will collectively deliver target outcomes and embed change where this is appropriate.
1. Work with initiative owners on initiative development and delivery ensuring collective actions achieve target outcomes and benefits.
2. Proactively support sponsors and initiative owners to identify gaps in actions required to deliver benefits, in risk mitigation, timely action closure and adoption of transformation standards.
3. Complete preparation for the weekly and monthly programme reviews with sponsor, transformation office and initiative owners and lead on other reporting as required.
4. Manage and run weekly and monthly programme reviews groups including preparation of presentations, minutes and action tracking.
5. Manage effective and efficient delivery of the workstream programme through a best-practice programme management framework incorporating both traditional project, agile and continuous improvement initiatives.
6. Ensure risks, issues and dependencies are recorded, monitored and proactively managed / mitigated to minimise disruption to successful delivery.
7. Review resource plans and ensure the programme has the right capabilities and capacity.
About You
8. A track record of programme management success within complex delivery environments with specific experience related to the workstream (Capital Delivery).
9. A strategic thinker with significant commercial and financial acumen
10. Able to absorb and understand significant detail and be able to present at appropriate levels for different audiences.
11. An excellent understanding of change concepts and human factors supported by proven change delivery experience.
12. Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
13. You will be a great problem solver, agile, a resilient character and have a hands on approach.
14. You will ideally have a background in consultancy or construction and have experience in organisational design
15. University degree, ideally pre and post grad (an MBA would be advantageous)
16. Project / programme management qualifications in particular - APM, Managing Successful Programmes and Agile
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home. We are offering a salary circa £72k per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
• Health benefits through a Cash Plan
• Two paid community volunteering days a year
• 25 days annual holiday
• Occupational health service
• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Join our Transformation team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.
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