Graduate PMO Controller

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At Severn Trent, we believe everyone deserves more. More care for the environment, more sustainable initiatives, and more support for the communities we serve. That's why we're on a mission to deliver bigger and better things, and we need passionate graduates like you to help us achieve our goals.

Our people and culture are the heart of our success. We're proud to be in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide for employee engagement and ranked as a Top 50 UK Employer on Glassdoor. With nearly 10,000 dedicated colleagues, we're looking for more brilliant people who are eager to turn challenges into opportunities for a better future.

If you're excited to learn, and ready to make a real impact, we want you on our team.

Severn Trent is a FTSE 100 company and one of the only ones outside London to have an all-encompassing PMO department. Our Graduate PMO Planner Programme involves you to coordinate with programme managers, stakeholders, and team members to ensure projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget. The Programme Planner will also be responsible for maintaining project schedules, tracking progress, and providing regular updates.

Through working in PMO, you will gain great oversight of detailed project schedules, including milestones, deliverables, and dependencies. The programme will enable you to develop your skills. The aim of the programme is:

Coordinate with programme managers and team members to ensure alignment on project goals and timelines.

• Lead the implementation of PMO frameworks across risk, change, assurance, analysis, and reporting, ensuring compliance and best practice.
• Act as the PMO champion for risk management, change control, cost planning, and assurance activities.
• Deliver accurate, insight-driven reporting for senior stakeholders, highlighting risks, impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate risk reviews and governance processes
  , ensuring quality, accuracy, and adherence to regulatory requirements.
• Promote continuous improvement within PMO processes, driving innovation and positioning PMO as a centre of excellence.
• Engage and influence senior stakeholders
  , presenting key programme insights and acting as a trusted advisor on deliverability.
• Support programme delivery through schedule analysis, change control monitoring, and property programme coordination.

You will be based at Severn Trent Headquarters in Coventry, the heart of our operating patch. The programme requires you to complete placements throughout your time in the role, gaining exposure in different areas of the department so that you are equipped with the right skills to build your career here at Severn Trent.

In this exciting programme, you will have the chance to discuss your development and career ambitions in your 1-1 meetings with business leads, mentors, the cohort leader, and the New Talent Team.

You will expand your knowledge in order to ensure the successful delivery of our projects by developing, managing and reporting on the SRO & Property Programme progress, focusing on risk, change, assurance and analysis on behalf of programme and project managers in order to meet overall requirements of the business.

You will be working closely with the Project Delivery, SRO Environmental and technical teams as well as our internal assurance and governance teams alongside our external consultants and contractors to ensure success project delivery. Providing clear and concise insight to our stakeholders to support in the decision-making process for all projects.

We want our employees to care and to have a genuine passion for what we do as a business. We need people who want to make a difference in providing a vital service to our customers, now and for the long-term.

If you have the passion to succeed that we see in our graduates every day, you’ll be a great match for our programme. We’d love you to be someone with: (skills and behaviours role requires)

• A ‘can do’ attitude – willing to get stuck in, take accountability for decisions and actions and who takes pride in…