Thames Water
Change Project Manager
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Change Project Manager
We are seeking a Change Project Manager to deliver improvements within our growing Renewals and Logistics business unit (providing people, resource, and specialist services to our Operations colleagues). Known internally as an Operational Improvement Lead, this is not a traditional project management role; you’ll be driving, shaping, and delivering projects, using your insight, creativity, and stakeholder management skills. You’ll be able to steer the project through discovery to develop operating models and processes, manage pilots, and implement delivery plans.
Working closely with the wider team, you’ll turn your hand to whatever support is needed, you’ll widen your knowledge of waste sewerage and clean water operations, offering you a varied and exciting career at Thames Water whilst making a genuine difference to Thames Water communities, customers, colleagues, and the environment.
What you’ll be doing as a Change Project Manager
- Manage the development and delivery of projects – including both improvements to existing services and operations, and the creation of new services.
- Review, develop, test, and implement operating models and processes to ensure they are future-proofed for the long-term outcomes associated with the wider portfolio.
- Drive successful deployment of all project outcomes through well-governed leadership and ownership.
- Capture and communicate benefits.
- Lead change through visible high-performance behaviours.
- Effective delivery of outcomes through strong engagement and management of stakeholders at all levels.
- Embed change and provide a smooth handover of outcomes to business-as-usual ways of working.
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This hybrid role is based in Green Park, Reading. Flexibility in this role is required to allow you to meet all agreed project deliverables, meaning you will work from your base location, operational sites across the Thames Water Estate, and from home, where appropriate, as required to fulfil the obligations of the projects you are delivering. This role is required Monday to Friday, 36 hours a week.
What you should bring to the role
To thrive in this role, the essential criteria you’ll need are:
- Previous experience managing projects and/or change management (Certification in Prince 2, APM, Agile. Lean etc. is desirable but not a requirement)
- Prior experience engaging and influencing stakeholders at all levels
- Strong planning skills and self-management capability
- Be willing to get ‘stuck in’ and become a ‘temporary subject matter expert’ to help lead the way with authority
- Ability to competently use MS Office and Project software
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Due to the nature of this role, the requirement to travel across our estate is key to successful project delivery, as such the successful candidate would benefit from having access to a car and a valid driver’s licence – with out this, any successful candidate is still expected to travel via public transport to meet all project obligations, noting that some of our sites may not be on routes near to frequent public transport options.
What’s in it for you?
- Offering between £43,110 and £52,000 per annum, depending on experience and skills.
- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with length of service. (Plus bank holidays)
- Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
- Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
- Access to lots 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.
Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)
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.
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