Programme Lead, Management, Program ​/ Project Manager

Our people are what makes Severn Trenta truly exciting and inclusive place to work. We’re a team of over 9,000 people with a purpose to deliver one of life’s essentials, and we do it all while thriving in our unique culture.

We’re a growing, Midlands based FTSE
100 listed company and welcome people from all walks of life, celebrating their individuality, as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities we’re present.

It’s an exciting time to join, as we have a huge ambition to deliver bigger and better than ever before over our next 5-year regulatory period. If you’re seeking an exciting and thoroughly rewarding career, Severn Trent is the place to be.

Due to an exciting new programme which is going to see us deliver for our customers a full mains renewal across our region over the next few years, we are now on a significant recruitment drive to scale our teams to deliver this fantastic work.

This is your opportunity to play a part in this transformation!

We are looking for a Programme Lead to join our team and be responsible for the overall programme management of Mains Renewal activity across all geographical regions of the Severn Trent Water business.

As our new Programme Lead, you’ll be accountable for the overall programme management for the design & delivery of the entire mains renewal programme, ensuring affordability and strategic goals are met while delivering against our regulatory commitments.

You will oversee approximately 45 people. Given the scope and significance of this role, it is one of seven key Business Leader positions established to strategically guide and execute our Mains Renewal activities during AMP
8.

Within this role you will ensure a tight budget is achieved, to ensure there is no overspend or under delivery of PCD against OFWAT and water resource management plan commitments. It will be a single point of contact for the strategic leader to understand the AMP position of the mains renewal programme.

This role is responsible for keeping customers and stakeholders informed with the latest updates and providing advance notice of upcoming works, all with the goal of ensuring an excellent customer experience.

• This role will establish and guide the strategy for the entire Severn Trent area, collaborating closely with other Business Leaders to drive and successfully implement the overall AMP8 Mains Relay strategy.
• Budget control of £418.5m, which is both direct and indirect. Some elements of budgetary control are unquantifiable (e.g. the cost of failure) but will be able to confirm budgets (direct) at the point the business case is signed off.
• The role holder will closely manage spend profiles for schemes across the programme, ensuring that scope creep and slippage are mitigated. They will be accountable for overseeing the annual programme review cycle to meet delivery and affordability requirements.
• Overall responsibility for a team of up to 45 people. This includes 4 Senior programme managers, 1 customer comms manager and their teams (9 people in each). Direct people management responsibility for a team of 5 people. Chair executive meetings effectively to collate views, develop actions and deliver outcomes.

For this role the right candidate will have experience of successfully managing, motivating and leading a large technical team.

You’ll have experience dealing with CDM Regulations and significant experience working with a utility-based industry.

Additionally, you will have excellent communication, influencing, and people skills to collaborate with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.

As travel is required, you’ll also have to hold a full U.K driving license.

The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity, and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.

We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involved. Those who are…