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Closing Date
25/07/2025
Job Title: Programme Controller x 2
Location: Falmer, Hybrid Working
Salary: up to £40,000 depending on skills and experience
Step up your PMO career with a key role in programme delivery
We’re seeking motivated and detail-oriented Programme Controllers to join our Capital Investment team. This PMO-based role is ideal for professionals with a background in PMO, reporting, or data analytics who want to deepen their expertise while gaining valuable exposure to delivery processes. If you’re ready to take the next step within a PMO environment that supports strategic programme delivery, this opportunity is for you.
Key Purpose
As a Programme Controller, you’ll play a key role in providing accurate planning, scheduling, cost, and risk management support across our Capital Programme. Your insights will directly inform decision-making at the highest level, helping ensure we meet strategic outcomes on time, within budget, and with full transparency.
You’ll work across a diverse range of stakeholders—including Planning Managers, Portfolio Leads, Delivery Teams, and PMO—offering critical support and data that underpins successful programme delivery.
Key Responsibilities
* Support programme and portfolio management with data-driven insight to optimise plans and enable smart investment decisions.
* Develop and maintain baseline delivery plans, forecasting schedules and financials with accuracy and clarity.
* Drive compliance with change, quality, and risk control standards across the project lifecycle.
* Provide assurance, analysis, and recommendations to help deliver key capital projects and mitigate risks.
* Facilitate clear, concise reporting that highlights threats, opportunities, and programme performance.
* Help set annual budgets and guide financial planning using robust, validated data.
* Work with planning tools and reporting systems, ensuring data integrity and continuous improvement.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align planning with operational and strategic priorities
Why Join Us?
* Strengthen your PMO career while gaining insight into programme delivery
* Work within a collaborative team shaping significant capital investments
* Engage with senior stakeholders and contribute to strategic decision-making
* Benefit from a supportive culture focused on development, innovation, and continuous improvement
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday 37 hours a week.
Southern Water operate a hybrid approach to working between our Falmer office and home.
* Company and performance-related bonus
* Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
* 25 days annual leave
* Life assurance equal to 4x salary
* Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
* Health Cash Plan
* Full funded eye tests
* Two paid volunteering days a year
* Occupational health service
* Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
* Digital GP service
* Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
* Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
* 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?
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.
Privacy Statement
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
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.
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