What you’ll be doing
as a Senior Sponsor - Bioresources
As a Senior Sponsor - Bioresources you’ll play a key role in delivering wastewater projects, managing time, cost, quality, and performance commitments. Working alongside the Senior Principal Sponsor and engaging closely with internal and external stakeholders, you’ll provide end-to-end support for planning and execution, ensuring investment decisions align with long-term goals and business outcomes.
Key responsibilities will include:
1. Accountability for the delivery of wastewater projects, ensuring alignment with time, cost, and quality.
2. Major projects - significant political & stakeholder overview.
3. Working with teams to resolve risks and trade-offs in project execution.
4. Contributing to business cases for investment and demonstrating alignment with Thames Water’s objectives.
5. Assisting in governance and decision-making processes, ensuring projects progress smoothly through approval stages.
6. Managing risks, tracking benefits, and ensuring projects contribute to regulatory and operational goals.
7. Engaging with stakeholders to build alignment and drive successful project outcomes.
Base Location: Base location Clearwater Court, Reading. Travel within the TV & London Patch.
Hybrid with days in the office or on site depending on projects.
Working pattern: Full-time, Monday–Friday (36 hours per week)
Essential criteria to bring to the role:
8. Experience in operations, asset management, or investment planning, ideally within the utilities sector.
9. Major project experience with significant political & stakeholder overview.
10. Understanding of wastewater compliance at programme level.
11. Experience with sponsorship.
12. A collaborative approach, with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
13. The ability to deliver clear direction and drive change.
14. A commitment to putting customers, communities, and stakeholders first.
Nice to haves would be:
15. Knowledge of best-practice asset management. (e.g., IAM qualifications or equivalent experience)
16. A track record of successful project delivery.
What’s in it for you?
This is a great opportunity to be part of a high-impact team that shapes the future of water and wastewater infrastructure. You’ll be working in a dynamic environment where you can make a real difference in communities while building your career with Thames Water. Alongside this you can expect:
17. Up to £75,000 per annum depending on skills and relevant experience.
18. 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
19. Car Allowance.
20. Annual Bonus.
21. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
22. Private Medical Health Care.
23. 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.