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Closing Date: 15/10/2025
Job Title: Programme Delivery Lead
Location: Durrington- Sussex- Hybrid (2 office/site remaining WFH)
Driving licence is essential due to site visits
Employment Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 Hours a week
Salary: Competitive plus £400 per month car allowance
Are you ready to lead one of the most impactful transformation programmes in the water industry? This is more than just a programme management role-it's a chance to shape the future of water services. You'll be part of a passionate team, working on initiatives that make a real difference to our customers and communities. We offer a collaborative environment, opportunities for growth, and the chance to work on projects that matter.
We're currently recruiting for a Programme Delivery Lead to take forward our Water Transformation initiatives with in driving a step change in key areas: affordability, enhancing customer experience, improving asset reliability, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory standards. Inheriting a series of projects within your portfolio, you will be leading our programmes working closely on process mapping, systems and leading the effective and efficient delivery of the programme through a best-practice programme management framework.
Being a confident leader with passion to be creative, you will be a creative learner passionate in achieving the benefits and outcome by taking ownership in a highly collaborative network of internal stakeholders. Your approach to agile methodologies, being curious and ready to explore innovative solutions, your role will be key in bringing the standards of our work to be industry leading to ensure outputs/ outcomes are delivered on time, to quality and to budget necessitating effective stakeholder and risk / issue management.
To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Have
* Proven experience in programme management within complex, infrastructure-heavy environments.
* Strong leadership skills, especially within matrix structures.
* Strategic thinking with commercial and financial acumen.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
* Familiarity with digital products and how they can drive transformation.
* Understanding of regulated utility environments-water industry knowledge is a big plus.
Experience in Water Network Operations and product ownership or management is desirable however your appreciation and interest towards our commitment and turnaround plans is what we need in bringing you onboard to deliver our valuable initiatives!
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates.
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