What you’ll be doing
as a Senior Project Manager
As a Senior Project Manager, you’ll take the lead on high-impact IT and digital initiatives, managing complex projects that involve multiple teams and delivery partners. Your responsibilities will include:
1. Leading both internal teams and third-party partners, using a mix of line and matrix management approaches.
2. Engaging and managing stakeholders at all levels, up to department heads, ensuring alignment and buy-in.
3. Partnering with the Programme Manager and Head of Portfolio to develop the PM team, share best practices, and drive the adoption of agile principles, processes, and cultural improvements across the organisation.
4. Proactively identifying, assessing, and managing project risks and dependencies, escalating issues when required.
5. Creating and maintaining project cost models, challenging budgets to deliver maximum value.
6. Leading project appraisals, kick-off meetings, closure reports, and lessons learned workshops, ensuring insights are applied to future initiatives.
7. Managing complex projects with critical dependencies and timelines, confidently working independently and applying your expertise to drive successful outcomes.
What you’ll bring
To excel in this role, you’ll need:
8. Extensive IT project management experience, delivering complex projects involving multiple stakeholders and third-party suppliers.
9. Experience with a range of delivery methodologies, including Agile and Waterfall.
10. An industry-recognised project management qualification.
11. Proven ability to manage complex projects with a mix of internal and external teams.
Nice to have
12. Agile Project Management / Scrum experience.
13. Technical experience aligned with IT/digital project delivery.
14. Experience managing platform replacements with significant business change impact.
Join us and play a key role in transforming Thames Water through digital and technology initiatives that make a tangible difference every day.
What’s in it for you?
15. Competitive salary of up to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.
16. Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
17. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets
18. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
19. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.