Who are we?
Thames Water is the UK’s largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km’s of pipes, to keep taps flowing and toilets flushing. We are an essential service and have operated throughout the Covid19 pandemic.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to daily life, and that means our business is always open.
What you’ll be doing
A successful candidate in the PMO Manager role will take responsibility for helping to shape the PMO strategy and implementation of strategy and governance controls for Operations Transformation Programmes. You’ll lead the implementation of PM methodologies including Agile as developed by TW, ensuring standards and compliance with reporting tools that drive successful delivery across all projects and products to inform both Programme execution and contribution to the overall status of the Operations Transformation Portfolio.
You’ll ensure adherence to project management procedures, methodologies, guidelines, and best practices of the Portfolio Management Office i.e., ensures consistent application of an effective project management methodology, ensures portfolio reporting mechanisms are adhered to with regards to planning, budget, resources, RAID, change, progress, and quality. All reporting in EPM, Azure Dev Ops and the Results Accelerator Tool is current, accurate and decision points called out and escalated.
We’re looking for you to
- Provide support and guidance on portfolio, programme, and project management processes, procedures, software, tools, and techniques
- Advice on the development, production, and maintenance of business cases; time, resource, cost and exception plans, and the use of related software tools
- Assurance of Programme and Project Management reporting and tracking of programme/project progress and performance from a quality assurance perspective
- Administrative services to project boards, project assurance teams and quality review meetings. To be run to standard agenda held by Central PMO
- Ongoing governance and assurance arrangements in line with Central PMO guidance. Manage project gate reviews with the Project Managers, providing quality assurance of gates in preparation for review and sign off. Recommendations made for progression to the subsequent stage
- Ensure quality of RAID items, with the insistence of updates/mitigation and closure where possible. Escalate issues and ensure change control methods and processes are embedded and followed. Ensuring all change-related risk is accurately reflected in the Corporate Risk Management process and shared with relevant areas of the business
- Analyse interfaces and critical dependencies across the business wide portfolio dependencies, ensuring they are being actively managed, and the dependencies are logged
What Skills are we looking for?
- A successful candidate will have education to a degree level or relevant experience
- You’ll have Prince2, MSP, P30 and/or PPSO qualifications
- Is courageous and decisive, prioritises effectively, maintains a clear focus, and sees action through to delivery
- Is energetic, determined, positive, goal focussed and consistent - even under pressure
- Confidently conveys complex messages and information, concerning progress, problems, and their solutions
- Demonstrates the ability to engage and communicate persuasively with a broad range of stakeholders, up to and including board level
- Strong analytical, interpersonal, and verbal/ written communication skills
- Proficiency in Project, Visio, and all standard MS Office programs
What’s in it for you?
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, car allowance, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with length of service and a wider benefits scheme.
We’re proud of the positive ways of working we have adopted during the pandemic. We want to create a more flexible and dynamic environment so all our colleagues can thrive. For our office-based roles we’re moving to a hybrid approach where we’ll provide options around working from our offices, our operational sites and home dependent on role/team/individual. This will be discussed during the assessment process.
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work. If you join our team, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and unparalleled benefits. We’re also proud to be an equal opportunity employer, Stonewall Diversity Champion and Disability Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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