Senior Programme Manager

Role Overview

• Lead an integrated team to deliver portfolios and programmes of work within Severn Trent’s Capital Investment Programme.
• Lead a team of Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers.
• Work with key stakeholders to deliver assigned projects to time and budget.
• Continuously challenge and innovate to improve performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Provide robust leadership to enable design, procurement and construction of multiple projects.
• Nurture the development of your team and their success.
• Provide senior programme-level oversight, assurance and direction across multiple project teams.
• Set programme direction, resolve complex cross-project risks and dependencies, and provide senior leadership intervention where delivery challenges arise.
• Drive consistency, performance improvement and innovation across capital programmes.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading and managing project management teams within a capital delivery or complex delivery environment.
• Proven experience leading the delivery of complex programmes or portfolios of projects within a capital delivery or regulated infrastructure environment, with accountability for integrating multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
• Significant experience operating at senior programme level, providing leadership, direction and assurance across multiple Project Managers and Lead Project Managers, with direct line management accountability.
• Demonstrable experience resolving high-complexity delivery risks, interdependencies and escalations, including issues that impact programme outcomes, investment confidence or customer commitments.
• Experience working within NEC contract environments and large-scale capital programmes, with a strong understanding of commercial, contractual and supplier-related risk at programme level.
• Proven ability to provide programme-level oversight of cost, schedule, risk and benefits, ensuring robust governance, controls and assurance are consistently applied.
• Strong understanding of H&S legislation, CDM requirements and engineering risk management, with experience embedding safety-first behaviours across large delivery programmes.
• Experience contributing to medium
• to long-term programme planning, investment prioritisation and delivery strategy, working in partnership with senior stakeholders, PMO and commercial teams.
• Demonstrable capability to represent programmes in senior governance and escalation forums, providing clear, evidence-based recommendations and decision support.
• Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with experience influencing and working collaboratively with senior internal stakeholders, delivery partners and supply chain leadership.
• A proactive, strategic and improvement-focused mindset, with experience using performance insight, lessons learned and innovation to improve programme delivery outcomes.
• Highly developed communication and organisational skills, with strong IT literacy (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Power BI).

Benefits

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 additional days per year)
• Annual bonus scheme
• Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15%)
• Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
• Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
• Family friendly policies
• Two volunteering days per year