Closing Date
2025-08-30
Location: Durrington (Worthing) – Hybrid 2/3 days a week in office
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: 50K - 65K GBP Annual
Hours: 37 hours
Are you ready to make a difference in the water & waste industry?
As Project Manager, you will be delivering medium scale independent projects and/or workstreams within a programme of work aligned within an organisational domain.
You will lead the delivery of individual projects from initiation through to service transition, matrix managing all project resources and managing relationships/deliverables with third party providers and internal stakeholders.
Your responsibilities are to include:
1. Successful delivery of IT/Business projects including estimates, plans, resource management, schedule, scope, requirements, solutions, budget and deliverables.
2. Motivate and lead team members, driving team engagement through the provision of guidance, technical support and coaching of team members.
3. Quality Assurance of project deliverables across the project.
4. Supporting the Senior Project Manager in the allocations of resources across the teams.
5. Developing and maintaining strong relationships with all key stakeholder across business and IT
6. Maintaining and communicating interdependencies from their Project within and across the Programme, and contribute to the Portfolio cross dependencies
7. Full budget accountability for projects
8. Resource managing your team and supporting resource allocations across teams.
9. Successful delivery of IT/Business projects including estimates, plans, resource management, schedule, scope, requirements, solutions, budget and deliverables; motivate team members and the overall team capabilities; providing direction and guidance
10. Track risks and issues in appropriate repositories and ensure their visibility to the people required to resolve them. Escalate risks and issues as appropriate.
11. Monitor overall project progress and manage any changes in project scope. Track financial performance of the project, including actual to budget tracking for labour hours and dollars, operating costs, and capital costs.
12. Communicate scope changes appropriately and gain authorization for additional funding as required.
13. Communicate project status, progress, and issues within the project team as well as to IT managers and staff, and to the business sponsor and business departments involved in the project.
14. Work with business owners, product owners, solution leaders and other stakeholders, as needed, to create a project charter, including the definition of completion criteria.
Skills and experience needed:
15. PMP, Prince 2 or equivalent certification
16. Agile qualification or experience
17. Demonstrable experience in managing IT projects and experience of shaping, scoping and delivering medium and large projects
18. Experience of procurement and management of 3rd party suppliers for services, software and infrastructure
19. Experience of working in a matrix function alongside Business, Service Architecture, Operations and Security functions
20. An outcome driven mindset with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
***Please note that this role will be known as Project Manager internally***
What Do We Offer?
21. 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
22. BUPA cash plan cover (with options to upgrade for family coverage).
23. Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers.
24. Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution).
25. An employee assistance program.
26. A network of sports and social clubs.
27. Company and performance-related bonus.
28. Life assurance equal to 4x salary.
29. Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service).
30. Health Cash Plan.
31. Two paid volunteering days a year.
32. Occupational health service.
33. Discounts with over 800 popular retailers.
34. Digital GP service.
35. Study support may be available for job-related qualifications.
36. Competitive maternity & paternity leave and flexible return to work options.
37. Cycle to work scheme.
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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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.