Innovation Programme Manager

6 days ago

Horley, United Kingdom SGN Full time

Location**:Horley (flexible)**

Salary**:Personal Contract**

Reference**:REQ2743**

**THE ROLE**

We have an exciting role for a program manager to join the innovation team at SGN.
They will take ownership of a complex and diverse portfolio of innovation projects that vary from live field trials to research projects. Your portfolio will include projects led and funded by SGN and projects where we are part of a consortium collaboratingwith other organisations on large scale, industry-wide projects.

The program manager will be responsible for coaching, developing, and motivating a team of project managers and coordinators, ensuring project management discipline is consistently followed.

**Key responsibilities will include;**
- Own the portfolio of innovation projects ensuring best practice project management
- Coach, motivate and develop team of project managers and coordinators
- Stakeholder management & engagement - ensuring effective project communications across the portfolio
- Ensuring compliance to standards for externally funded projects

**CULTURE/BENEFITS**

This role will offer plenty of genuine learning and development opportunities, as well as a competitive salary with company benefits including retail & leisure discounts, HolidayPlus & Cycle2work schemes, gym & mobile discounts, a pension scheme, and more.

Fostering a diverse and inclusive culture is something we pride ourselves on at SGN. We want our workplace to be an innovative and inclusive place to work, where every single person feels empowered to achieve professional success.

**WHAT YOU’LL BRING**

Significant and successful program / project management experience across a range of different project types and budgets, you will be an excellent stakeholder manager and an effective relationship builder.

You will have strong management and leadership experience with a proven ability to develop people and teams.

You will need to be an excellent communicator able to engage at all levels and be a confident presenter.

**Essential;**
- Project management qualifications
- Program management experience to include complex projects with significant budgets
- Excellent stakeholder management skills
- Strong communication skills

**Desirable;**
- Knowledge of energy or wider utilities sector
- Experience working in regulated industry
- Experience managing innovation or R&D projects

Not a perfect skills match? Tell us what you’re interested in - you might have a skill we didn’t realise we needed

**WHO WE ARE**

We’re on a journey to transform the future of gas and we think outside the box - futuristic technologies and robotics are leading our innovation. Keeping our customers safe and warm is what we do but beyond that, we want to make the world a better place,which is why we’re passionate about helping in our communities, reducing our carbon footprint and driving innovation in our industry.

At SGN, we strive to sustain our world through managing the network that distributes natural and green gas across the south of England and Scotland. We have an important responsibility to keep the gas flowing to 5.9 million homes and businesses. Your workdirectly impacts SGNs commitments to keeping our customers’ homes and businesses safe.

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