Closing Date
2025-05-29
Job Title: Transformation Office Specialist - RISK (PMO)
Location: Durrington, West Sussex (Hybrid, 2-3 days a week)
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week
Salary: circa £45,000 (depending on skills and experience)
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
Working within the Transformation Office; you'll specialise in project risk and issue management. You will bring a wealth of knowledge on this area and act as the SME within the Transformation Office.
Day to day you'll be:
1. Managing the risk associated with projects
2. Attending meetings relating to the project stream to offer advise on risk
3. Own Risk and Issue, Dependency and Resource Management
4. Put in place process, practice, reporting and ways of working relate to effective identification and management of risks and issues across workstreams and portfolio.
5. Support the identification of dependencies across the portfolio working across workstreams to ensure effectively managed.
6. Ownership and identification of all resources aligned to Wave,
7. Lead development of TO process and ensure TO team are aligned and aware.
8. Lead on the McKinsey change process in relation to the core system Wave so it aligns with the process.
9. Manage/update the change control log, risk log, TO handbook etc.
10. Complete workstream assurance reviews
11. Maintaining Transformation updates and relevant material, serving as main POC for communication questions/requests
About You
12. Experience working in a Portfolio Office
13. Ideally relevant APM qualifications (risk modules preferred)
14. Good understanding of project structures
15. A pragmatic problem solver with strong attention to detail
16. A helpful and supportive character who can offer guidance in a positive manner
17. Strong communication skills
18. Curious – interested in asking questions about what, how or why
19. Organised and capable of managing own work and tasks
20. An observant, patient character who has a 'customer centric' mentality
21. Strong IT literacy, with the ability to learn and become an expert on new IT systems
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 of circa £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
22. Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
23. 25 days annual leave
24. Life assurance equal to 4x salary
25. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
26. Health Cash Plan
27. Full funded eye tests
28. Two paid volunteering days a year
29. Occupational health service
30. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
31. Digital GP service
32. Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
33. Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
34. Cycle to work scheme
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?
If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)
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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