Programme Management Officer

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Job Title: Programme Management Officer

Location: Durrington (Worthing) hybrid working (typically 2 days onsite Tuesday to Thursday)

Contract Type: Permanent (flexible working considered)

Hours: Full time Monday to Friday

Salary: Up to 45000 a year

About the role

We are looking for a proactive and adaptable Programme Management Officer (PMO) to support a growing portfolio of Procurement and Commercial programmes. This is a handson specialist PMO role providing portfolio visibility coordination and decisionready insight across complex change and transformation initiatives such as Source to Pay (S2P) Electric Vehicles Accommodation and future programmes as our portfolio continues to evolve.

You will use your PMO experience and judgement to shape and improve daytoday ways of working ensuring they are proportionate effective and aligned to delivery needs.

You will act as the glue that holds programmes togetherensuring effective planning reporting governance and stakeholder alignment across multiple workstreams.

This role offers a high level of autonomy and trust. You will be encouraged to apply your PMO experience and judgement to improve how the portfolio operates daytoday rather than following rigid or overly bureaucratic processes. Your work will directly inform senior decisionmaking and governance across Procurement & Commercial.

What you will be responsible for:

• Providing programme and portfolio support across Procurement and Commercial initiatives maintaining a consolidated and accurate view of progress risks issues and dependencies
• Owning and maintaining programme and portfolio information (including RAID change and key trackers) ensuring data quality and credibility
• Acting as a central interface between Procurement Commercial Corporate Transformation Digital and Finance teams
• Consolidating programme and project reporting to provide a clear portfolio-level view of progress and performance
• Coordinating programme and workstream meetings where required including agenda preparation action tracking and followup (minutetaking where appropriate)
• Capturing lessons learned and supporting continuous improvement across programme delivery approaches
• Applying PMO experience and judgement independently to propose and implement practical improvements to portfolio reporting coordination and governance
• Producing portfoliolevel insight and narrative to support senior leadership and governance forums enabling informed prioritisation and decisionmaking

What youll bring to the role:

Essential

• Proven experience in a PMO programme support or project support role
• Relevant PMO programme or portfolio support experience within a complex organisation
• Comfortable working autonomously and applying PMO judgement in environments where ways of working continue to evolve
• Ability to work confidently across programmes of different sizes and complexities
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Strong MS Office skills particularly Word Excel and PowerPoint

Desirable

• Experience with MS Project Planner or similar tools
• Experience working within or alongside Procurement or Commercial teams (highly desirable)
• Experience within utilities the water industry procurement or commercial environments

This role offers excellent exposure across Procurement Corporate Transformation Digital and Finance making it an ideal opportunity for someone looking to deepen their PMO capability while building strong relationships across the business.

About Southern Water

Southern Water is at the forefront of transforming Britains water industry investing significantly to enhance resilience sustainability and service excellence. With 7.8bn planned investment for 202530 this is an unparalleled opportunity to join a business committed to delivering a generational shift in the way water services are managed.

You will be joining at a time of significant change working alongside a highly skilled leadership team with a clear vision for the future. We offer an environment where our people can make a meaningful impact influence strategic outcomes and continue to develop their careers.

At Southern Water we believe diverse perspectives drive innovation. If this opportunity excites you but youre not sure you meet every requirement or if you need flexibility around working hours we encourage you to apply or have a conversation with us. Your experience and potential could be exactly what were looking for.

If this role isnt quite right for you but youd like to hear about future opportunities at Southern Water you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself ().

Our Commitment to Diversity

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds identities and experiences. We do not discriminate based on race ethnicity gender sexual orientation age disability religion or any other protected characteristic. If you require reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process please let us know.

Additional information:

In line with Southern Waters security requirements successful candidates will be required to provide evidence of their identity eligibility to work in the UK and verification of their employment and/or education history for the past three years. Appointment to this role is subject to the successful completion of all pre-employment checks which may include a DBS check and security vetting.

Some roles may also require out-of-hours incident support as part of our commitment to delivering water for life. This will be discussed further during the interview process.

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