Strategic Programme Lead – PMO (Water Portfolio)
Full time 37 hours per week (flexible working arrangements including part time will be considered).
Permanent
Salary: from £72,000 per year (depending on experience) plus Car Allowance and Bonus.
Location: hybrid working with office location at Chelmsford, Essex.
About the Role
Reporting directly into the Head of PMO, you will work across multiple teams including Strategic Planning, Tactical Planning, Regulation, Environment, Customer, Communications and Assets Design & Construction delivery to ensure we successfully deliver the Programme, within budget and time and meeting all scope requirements.
You will ensure that the Programme strategic requirements, objectives, drivers, benefits and outcomes are documented, clear and flowed through to the delivery teams, and that the delivery portfolio fully matches all required objectives and requirements.
You will own and lead collating Reporting information for the Water portfolio, working with the PMO Reporting team who produce the information. You will manage Issues, Risk & Opportunity at Portfolio level and identify programmatic efficiency opportunities. You ensure robust Project Controls are in place for your portfolio, spanning multiple delivery vehicles. You will focus on in-AMP delivery as priority, with a secondary focus on our preparations for the next AMP.
About You
If you are an experienced Project delivery professional with high capability to manage stakeholders, work in high complexity, solve problems, provide strong leadership and drive for success, we would love to hear from you!
You will be capable of operating within a complex multi-regulator environment, with multiple directors and teams working together. You can lead or contribute to external stakeholder management meetings. You can ensure external change control is in place and matched to internal change control, which you can lead.
You have experience working in an environment that involves complex linkages between large volumes of data. When it comes to data, you understand context, can work within complexity, can spot problems and can bring subject matter experts in to resolve issues as required.
You can lead a Programme including setting baselines, monitoring and control of performance across Scope, Cost, Schedule, Risk, Opportunity, Issue and Change Control.
We encourage and welcome all applications, as we strive to be an equal opportunity employer.
Please note this role will require a DBS to be completed prior to employment. NWG are an inclusive employer who support the rehabilitation of offenders; we will not, however, consider candidates who have certain unspent convictions to ensure our commitment to fostering a safe and secure working environment for all OR colleagues, suppliers, customers and third parties.
This role has also been defined as a safety or security critical role and as a condition of a formal offer of employment you’ll be required to undergo a drug and alcohol test. Prospective employees and agency workers in defined safety and security critical roles will be required to undertake a drug and alcohol test after the job offer has been made. This will be prior to or within four weeks of their start date. Prospective employees and agency workers who fail a pre‑employment urine drug screen will have their sample analysed by the company‑appointed laboratory as a matter of course. Failing a pre‑employment drugs or alcohol test may lead to the job offer being revoked.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday entitlement starting at 26 days, plus bank holidays and additional time off on Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. There’s also the option to buy or sell holidays.
- Company pension scheme, where we’ll double match your contributions up to an employer contribution of 11%.
- Free access to local attractions.
- A fantastic discount scheme, with savings on days out, shopping, travel and more.
- Award winning ‘Living Well’ wellbeing support, including access to a digital GP service for you and your family members.
- Support with sustainable travel – through salary sacrifice cars and a cycle to work scheme.
- Financial wellbeing support – access our community savings scheme, financial education and low cost loans through Salary Finance. We also provide 4 x Life Assurance and an Income Protection Scheme.
- Support with your development – we offer a range of development opportunities, can support you through an interest free qualification loan and we’ll even pay for any relevant professional body subscription.
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