Programme Management Officer

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Programme Management Officer

Location: Durrington

Salary: £40,000-£45,000

Hybrid: 2-3 days onsite (Tue-Thu)

Contract: Permanent (flexible working considered)

Are you ready to be the glue that holds transformational programmes together? We're looking for a proactive and adaptable Programme Management Officer (PMO) to support our expanding Procurement and Commercial programme portfolio. This is your chance to make a real impact across strategic initiatives like Source to Pay (S2P), Electric Vehicles, and Accommodation-with more exciting programmes on the horizon.

What You'll Do

• Provide programme support across delivery workstreams, ensuring plans, milestones, and reporting are maintained
• Own and manage RAID logs, change logs, and programme health checks
• Act as the central interface between Procurement, Commercial, Corporate Transformation, Digital, and Finance teams
• Consolidate reporting to portfolio level, enabling a functional-wide view of progress
• Coordinate meetings, prepare agendas, and capture minutes to keep everyone aligned
• Analyse lessons learned and drive continuous improvement across programme delivery

What You'll Bring

• Experience in PMO or programme/project support roles
• Strong grasp of programme methodologies (APM, PMP, Prince2, MSP, PMO)
• Comfortable working across any project size or sector-water industry or procurement knowledge is a bonus, not a must
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Skilled in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint); MS Project or Planner is a plus

Desirable Extras

• Agile, SAFE, Scrum, Lean, Six Sigma, ADKAR change management experience
• Utility sector or water industry exposure

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to grow within a supportive environment that values flexibility, development, and collaboration. Whether you're an experienced PMO professional or someone looking to take the next step in your journey, we're excited to meet you.

Ready to pull the threads together and drive meaningful change? Apply now

Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our Durrington office and home.

Benefits
We are offering a salary of up to £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• Competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
• Cycle to work scheme

Join our Procurement team and see how far your career could progress with a company committed to career progression, training and development opportunities, our customers and the environment.

Does this opportunity excite you but you're not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that 'normal' office hours aren't possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can't accommodate every flexible working request, we'll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn't quite what you're looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself )

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support - because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That's why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you'll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

Privacy Statement
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.