Energy Programme Manager

**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 serviceand 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**
Reporting to the Energy Performance & Change Manager, as the Energy Programme Manager, you’ll work with the Energy, Engineering and Delivery teams to drive the delivery of our ambitious AMP7 Energy & Carbon investment plan, delivering benefits in the form ofenergy efficiencies and performance commitments.
Accountable for the Energy Programme, you’ll manage the unbriefed and briefed programmes, providing oversight throughout delivery to ensure benefits are realised upon completion.You’ll ensure that effective processes are in place to identify, monitor andresolve change at the project and programme levels.
You’ll also support the production of timely and comprehensive annual capital budgets, quarterly re-forecasts and monthly financial and progress reporting.
**Key areas of responsibility include**:

- Provide clear direction and ownership of the Energy programme, ensuring that programmes briefed into Delivery include baselines and key milestones against which progress can be measured. Employ critical thinking capability to drive value into the plan atan early stage
- Provide inputs to portfolio management teams in order to facilitate balancing the wider needs of Thames Water as appropriate
- Identify key risks across the energy programme and guide the development of mitigation plans as appropriate
- Sponsor energy projects at the relevant governance meetings in line with the Stage-Gate process
- Work with the Technical teams through optioneering, feasibility and outline design to achieve single, preferred solutions within the budget provision
- Ensure end-user consultation has taken place and is embedded in the preferred solution
- Align all processes and procedures with other Capital Programme Manager(s) to ensure consistency is applied across the entire Delivery Portfolio
- Build strong relationships across Delivery Office and across the wider business

**We’re looking for you to**:

- **Have a relevant technical degree** and/or membership of a professional body preferable (e.g. APM/ Practitioner MSP/ Prince2/P3O/PPSO/ITIL)
- **Provide management, direction, and development** of people in a culture of accountability and achievement
- **Be highly knowledgeable in project and programme management** (Energy projects preferable)
- **Possess strong commercial awareness** (essential)
- **Have technical awareness** of the programme portfolio (desirable)
- **Possess the ability to analyse data and make decisions on partial information** to maintain an optimised delivery programme
- **Be adept in project planning, estimating and financial forecasting** with a working knowledge of best practice methodologies
- **Possess strong influencing and negotiation skills**, be highly organised with a strong drive and a problem-solving approach
- **Have a full driving licence** as you may travel to key business sites

**What’s in it for you?**
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly engaged and multi-disciplinary team. The role will suit a Programme Manager who is looking for their next opportunity and enjoys a diversity of work with a varied schedule.
Our competitive salary package includes an excellent contributory pension, 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the 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 optionsaround 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 DiversityChampion and Disability Confident Leader and we’re a Times Top 50 Employer for Women.
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