Digital Project Manager

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

12/20/2024

Closing Date

2025-02-03

Job Title: Digital Project Manager (IT/ Technical)

Location: Durrington (Worthing)

Contract Type: 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

Hours: 37

Salary: £55,000

There has never been a better time to join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising our environmental impact and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

Southern Water will be delivering a significant increase in its capital delivery programme over the next five-year period that will require the implementation of a range of digital initiatives.

The first six months you will be managing the “Common Data Environment” initiative to accelerate its delivery and improve its maturity. Through building relationships across all key stakeholders this role will then shift in responsibilities to managing a portfolio of IT initiatives that enable the transformation required for Asset Management and Capital Delivery.

Project management of the Bentley Common Data Environment (BCDE) initiative:

• Manage the plan and dependencies
• Work with BAs and User groups to understand user journeys
• Work with Change Manager to ensure embedment of new system and related ways of working
  
  

Drive Portfolio Of IT Initiatives

• Using the outputs from the E2E process mapping and digital road mapping and working with nominated initiative owners, manage and co-ordinate the planning, prioritisation and co-ordination of a portfolio of digital initiatives into a credible plan.
• Ensure that the digital initiatives are in WAVE, follow the transformation office processes and ensure suitable quality of initiative documentation
• Work closely with IT department, Asset Management and Capital Delivery Teams and Transformation office, process owners and change
  
  

Accountabilities

• Plan development and engagement 15%
• Project management 60%
• Risk, issue, assumption, and dependency management 15%
• Reporting 10%
  
  

Package

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

We are offering a salary of £55,000 per annum 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 Digital 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 (myworkdaysite.com)

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.

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