What you’ll be doing
as a Senior Project Manager
1. You will lead both internal teams and third-party collaborators, employing a combination of line management and matrix management approaches.
2. Identify, engage and manage direct and indirect stakeholders appropriately, in the context of their role, up to the department head.
3. Work with the Programme Manager and Head of Portfolio to support the ongoing development of the PM team, sharing knowledge and best practice. Helping lead the adoption of agile principles, practices and cultural changes to improve how Thames Water delivers change across the organisation.
4. Identify, assess, and manage risks effectively, utilising project governance to provide visibility/escalate as appropriate.
5. Create and maintain project cost models covering actual, accrual, and forecast – challenging costs to drive value.
6. Review project closure reports, attend lessons learned workshops and seek to apply relevant learnings.
7. Lead and facilitate project appraisal workshops/reviews and project kick-off meetings.
Base location – Hybrid – Clear Water Court
Working hours – 36 hours
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need is:
8. Experience of different delivery methodologies, i.e. Agile, Waterfall.
9. Extensive experience in IT project management, managing complex projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders/third parties.
10. Delivery of IT projects involving third-party suppliers.
11. A Degree qualification or an industry-recognised qualification.
12. Demonstrable experience in managing complex projects with a mixture of internal and third parties.
Extra qualities that would be a great fit for our team:
13. Agile Project Management/Scrum.
14. Prince 2 or equivalent.
15. Technical skills/experience in alignment with the projects to be run.
16. Management of platform replacements involving significant business change.
What’s in it for you?
17. Competitive salary of up to £75,000 per annum, depending on experience.
18. Annual Leave - 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. Performance-related pay plan directly linked to both company and individual performance measures and targets.
24. 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.