Digital Project Manager

In Team Digital, we’re planning for a future where the technology solutions we co-create and design enable us to achieve our goal to protect our greatest natural resource and allow our customers, communities and the environment to thrive.
As a team, our vision is to create an everyday digital experience for the people we serve - our customers - by putting them at the heart of everything we do. As part of our award-winning team you’ll help the business become an intelligent, connected organisation in order to deliver our digital transformation and turnaround.

As a Project Manager, you will be delivering key initiatives that will provide insights and actions from data that will ultimately impact the natural environment, helping improve river and watercourse health.

This role gives great exposure to digital and the various digital teams involved in delivery, but also exposure to the operational side of the business that provides essential services to millions of customers and the environment.

What you’ll be doing as a Project Manager
As a 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. Here are the key aspects of your responsibility:

• Leadership and Coordination: You will lead both internal teams and third-party collaborators, employing a combination of line management and matrix management approaches.
• Stakeholder Management: You will be a great stakeholder manager, who is able to work collaboratively and influence a wide range of stakeholders up to and including Head of department level.
• Goal Achievement: Your primary objective is to ensure successful project outcomes. This involves meeting project goals within specified timelines, adhering to budget constraints, and maintaining alignment with the project scope.
• Effective Transition: As the project nears completion, you play a pivotal role in ensuring a smooth transition into service. This involves seamless integration of the project deliverables into the operational environment.
• Financial and Commercial Acumen: Given the collaborative nature of your role, financial and commercial expertise is essential. You will work closely with our supplier and finance teams to optimize project resources and costs.
• Domain Advantage: While not mandatory, experience in utilities or water-related projects would be advantageous. We are looking for project managers with a wide range of experience who can bring this to their projects at Thames Water.

Remember, as a Project Manager, you are the linchpin that holds the project together, orchestrating various elements to achieve success.
Base Location: Reading - Hybrid
Working Pattern: Full Time/36 Hours

What you should bring to the role
We want to bring together a team of brilliant tech minds with game changing ideas. We’re looking for people who will help us re-imagine the way we work and the way we get things done:

• A truly digital mindset. Open to collaboration. Open to risk. Open to new ways of doing things.
• Obsessed with data. Obsessed with excellence.
• People who think and behave differently to the way we do. People who don’t want to just be another cog in the machine.
• Experience of different delivery methodologies i.e. Agile, Waterfall.
• Significant IT project management experience.
• Delivery of IT projects involving third party suppliers.
• Development/management of SOWs/Third party suppliers.
• Agile Project Management/Scrum.
• Prince 2 or equivalent.
• Technical skills/experience in alignment with projects to be run.

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £45,000 to £55,000 per annum depending on experience.
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (Plus bank holidays).
• Contributory pension – Defined Contribution - Maximum of 12% -2x employee contribution.
• Personal Medical Assessments – Open to all once a year.
• Wider benefits scheme including our benefits hub, which is packed full of offers and information to save you money and support your wellbeing.

Who are we?
At Thames Water, our purpose is crystal clear - to deliver life’s essential service so our customers, communities and planet can thrive.

Water is life’s great leveller. Every living thing needs it, every single day. From people to plants, birds to bees, farms to factories, we all need it to thrive, and we’re committed to taking care of it for us all.

But keeping water flowing is becoming harder. From scorching summers to wetter winters, extreme weather affects everything from our pipes to our local rivers. We need to keep millions more kettles boiling, public services operating, washing machines spinning, showers running and more, so every drop is more precious than ever. Are you ready to play your part?

Working at Thames Water
At Thames Water we recognise that people are at the heart of our business. To help us succeed in providing life's essential service, we need a range of skills and capabilities, representative of society throughout our business.

We seek to attract and retain a cultural mix of people who can offer different but complementary attitudes, values, talents, and knowledge. We understand the importance of appreciating and harnessing the unique skills, experiences, background, and differences that each individual brings.

Our over-arching diversity and inclusion aim is to ensure Thames Water is a diverse and inclusive great place to work. We encourage applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.