Project Manager

Salary - Circa £50k - £60k depending upon skills and experience

Permanent

Full time - 37 hours

Hybrid position - working from Home and either from our Huntingdon or Lincoln Office

Anglian Water offers a flexible approach, this role provides you the flexibility to work from home and from an Anglian Water office. Your base location will be in Huntingdon or Lincoln with an expectation of being in the office minimum 1-2 days a week.?

Do you have experience of leading projects within a Digital, Data and Technology (DDat) or Operation Technology (OT) setting?

If?so,?we have an amazing opportunity for you!??

Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) underpins everything we do in our business at Anglian Water. As well as maintaining our systems and 'keeping the lights on', we gather business intelligence, deliver complex system upgrades, provide innovative contact centre and mobile technology, design, build, and maintain new systems for future digital technology to enable Anglian Water to continue to deliver a high quality service to its customers.

Our team has been undergoing an exciting transformation to modernise our practices, tools and platforms to enhance our services and ensure they are best positioned to play a proactive and value-orientated role across our business.

The project manager is responsible for the initiation, planning, execution, performance / monitoring and closure of their projects. Behaviourally they should look at efficient and effective ways to deliver changes to drive continuous improvements through the AW organisation.

This role will be involved in project managing both DDat and Operational Technology (OT) projects.

In summary these tasks typically include:

• Planning what work needs to be done, when and who's going to do it and mapping dependencies

• Ensuring compliance with AWS Finance process to ensure projects are managed effectively from a budgetary perspective

• Looking at the risks and dependencies involved in a particular project and managing these

• Escalating as necessary any risks or issues as per project governance

• Influencing and motivating the team of people involved in the project

• Co-ordinating work done by different people and managing stakeholders continuously

• Typically engaging and managing multiple Delivery Partners in the course of the project delivery Dealing with changes to the project as and when necessary

• Making sure the project delivers the expected outcomes and benefits on time and within the cost agreed

Key responsibilities include:?

Project Delivery

Responsible for delivery of projects to Anglian Water Prince 2 APM level C Project Management methodology: -

• The PM is accountable for building the plan

• The PM is accountable for ensuring that permission is obtained to proceed through various stage gates

The PM is responsible for ensuring that governance is in place and management decisions can be made:

• Responsible for delivering the following products:

• Product Breakdown Structure

• Project Initiation Delivery Document (PIDD) or Project Brief (depending on size and complexity of project)

• Work Packages

• Effective management of RAID

• Monthly progress reporting

• Project governance

You'll also takes ownership of the project and proactively drives the project to completion by energetically resolving issues and managing risks.

What does it take to be Project Manager?

• HND/HNC/Prince 2/Advanced Project Management or equivalent experience

• Significant demonstrable relevant experience of IS/IT or OT systems as applicable for the role

• Commercial awareness with a track record of working with customers to realise business benefits and/or business outcomes

• Experience and knowledge of converting operational capability and competence to a package of services for IS/OT exploitation

• Significant demonstrable experience, including Project Management, Financial and performance management, relevant technical management.

• Significant demonstrable experience of liaising, negotiating with external partners and suppliers

As a valued employee, you'll be entitled to:

• Personal private health care
• 26 days annual leave - rising with length of service
• Flexible working
• Competitive pension scheme - Anglian Water double-matches your contributions up to 6% (e.g. you contribute 6%, Anglian Water will contribute an additional 12%)
• Bonus scheme
• Flexible benefits to support your wellbeing and lifestyle ?

We are passionate and committed to the learning and development of our people making sure they have the right skills and knowledge to be successful and to help achieve their potential.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Join us and make a difference. Our customers come from a wide range of backgrounds, and we think our workplace should reflect that. We are committed to making sure all our colleagues feel they belong and are supported to succeed. Together with our fellow water companies, we are committed to the Social Mobility Pledge; we are also a signatory to Business in the Community's Race at Work charter; we hold the Armed Forces Gold Covenant for Employers; we are an accredited Disability Confident employer, and we play a leading part in the Women's Utility Network.

Closing date: 15/07/2024

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