Senior Project Manager

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Senior Project Manager

Pertemps

Job Description At Thames Water, we make a daily difference to our 16 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing. We deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive. As a Senior Project Manager, your role encompasses several critical tasks. You are entrusted with delivering significant technology and business change initiatives that propel Thames’ progress toward achieving business‑area goals and desired outcomes.

• Lead both internal teams and third‑party collaborators, employing a combination of line management and matrix management approaches.
• Identify, engage and manage direct and indirect stakeholders appropriately, in the context of their role, up to department head.
• Work with the Programme Manager and Head of Portfolio to support the ongoing development of the PM team, sharing knowledge and best practice. Helping lead the adoption of agile principles, practices and cultural changes to improve how Thames Water delivers change across the organisation.
• Identify, assess, and manage risks effectively, utilising project governance to provide visibility/escalate as appropriate.
• Create and maintain project cost models covering actual, accrual, and forecast – challenging costs to drive value.
• Review project closure reports, attend lessons learned workshops and seek to apply relevant learnings.
• Lead and facilitate project appraisal workshops/reviews and project kick‑off meetings.

Working pattern or hours – 36 hours

Essential

• Experience of different delivery methodologies, i.e. Agile, Waterfall.
• Extensive experience in IT project management, managing complex projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders/third parties.
• Delivery of IT projects involving third‑party suppliers.
• A degree qualification or an industry‑recognised qualification.
• Demonstrable experience of managing complex projects with a mixture of internal and third parties.

Desirable

• Agile Project Management/Scrum.
• Prince 2 or equivalent.
• Technical skills/experience in alignment with projects to be run.
• Management of platform replacements involving significant business change.

• Competitive salary of up to £75,000 per annum depending on experience.
• Annual leave – 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Car allowance.
• Annual bonus.
• Generous pension scheme through AON.
• Private medical health care.
• Access to a variety of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. Our aim is to remove any real or perceived barriers to success, so if you need assistance, we’re here to help and support.

£75,000 per year

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