Senior Project Manager (Business Change) Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water: • We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience, (3b), £52,855 - £77,178 • A company car benefit (£6,000 cash allowance) • Annual incentive related bonus (up to 15% of annual salary, bonus year April 2026/27) • Private health care • Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution) • Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary • 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus an extra wellness day! • A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover. • Retail savings scheme • Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more! Location: Buttershaw, Bradford, hybrid working - 2 days a week in office. As part of the role, you will be required to travel to different Yorkshire Water locations. Pending office move to Leeds (LS10) from Summer 2026. Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager (Business Change) to join the Asset Delivery PMO at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you? What we do: Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this. We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity. New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Capital Delivery team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators. In AMP8, Asset Delivery PMO will support a multi-billion-pound programme of capital investment across YW’s clean and wastewater assets. The Capital Programme is growing by over 50% with strong efficiency targets. We’re looking for an organised, people focussed Senior Project Manager to join our team. You’ll play a key role in bridging the gap between business needs, efficiency and the people side of change which add value to our Asset Delivery teams and Yorkshire Water. Where you fit in: • Work with business representatives to investigate and analyse opportunities to drive efficiency across the capital delivery process. • Provide input to the strategic planning process to ensure that change aligns with the long-term aspirations of the capital programme over current and future AMP’s. • Build business cases to support investment in change activity which will drive cost reduction in programme delivery. • Work with business representatives to support project planning and delivery of key objectives through the provision of change management resources and workshop facilitation services. • Work with the Business Architects, Process Leads and Project and Programme Managers to complete detailed business impact assessments and develop the business change plan for agreed and prioritised opportunities for change initiatives, acting as a bridge between project/programme management and business operations. • Obtain assurance from the relevant business operations that the change plan will deliver the required benefits. • Preparing the business readiness plan for the transition to new ways of working and ensuring necessary launch approval and go/no go decisions are managed to a pre-defined set of criteria. • Optimising the timing of the release of project deliverables into business operations. • For smaller projects taking on the Project management of continuous improvement initiatives in addition managing business change. As a Senior Project Manager you will; • Support the programme manager with key governance on the strategic change programme • Deliver key strategic change projects and continuous improvement activities • Design and deliver business readiness and business change plans, include launch, engagement and comms across the programme • Have oversight of change initiatives across the business and our function to spot opportunities to align and impacts to delivery • Responsible for sustainment/ Reinforcement activities to ensure change is adopted and embedded. • Responsible for benefits tracking and realisation across the change programme • Lead yourself and a team to deliver a programme of work that supports the business strategy and delivers strong, measurable outcomes • Produce key documents needed for sign-off by leadership teams. What skills & qualifications you will need: • Significant delivery experience within business change – ideally qualified via ProSci or equivalent • Solid background of programme governance and delivery • Excellent stakeholder management skills • Strong benefits tracking experience. • Focused and driven individual who excels in a challenging environment • Great people management skills and be a coach and mentor to your team colleagues, assisting in peer reviews of projects not under your control to support the overall programme needs. • You will demonstrate professionalism and excellent performance and will be an accomplished communicator, negotiator, and presenter. • You will have a proven track record of project management • You will have experience of leadership and working with multi-disciplinary teams • You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills; including the ability to present and communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences. You will also benefit from having: • A recognised qualification in project/programme management such as APM is desirable but not essential. • Ideally, you will have experience of working with others to drive innovation to deliver project efficiencies and cost savings for the business. We embrace a flexible working model, where our hybrid setup typically requires an average of 2 days in the office per week. This could be slightly more when collaborative efforts, training or meeting deadlines demand it. For those who prefer to work on-site, our office is open Monday-Friday during working hours. Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it's important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn't always easy! Do we sound like your cup of tea??? If you've got experience as a Senior Project Manager and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, then be sure to apply today to find out what a career with Yorkshire Water can offer you.? Accessibility We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible. If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required. Just a heads-up! We might start interviewing and close the position earlier based on the response. To make sure you’re considered, please send in your application as soon as you can. If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance. All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required. No agencies please Water Utility Company based in Yorkshire region of England.