PMO Analyst

Jersey Electricity Plc; Reading; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading utility company in the UK is expanding its PMO office and seeking passionate professionals for roles including Cost Controller and Risk Management Analyst. Successful candidates will manage capital programmes, ensuring effective decision-making and adherence to regulations. This opportunity offers competitive salaries, comprehensive benefits, and a chance to make a meaningful impact in the community.

Benefits

Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30

Annual Bonus Scheme (performance related)

Generous Pension Scheme through AON

Access to family health and wellbeing benefits

Qualifications

• Proven track record managing large-scale capital programmes exceeding multimillion-pound budgets.
• Experience operating within highly regulated industries.

Responsibilities

• Provide key support in cost control and reporting across programmes.
• Oversee the flow and integrity of documentation and communications for performance reporting.
• Support risk management across project delivery.

Skills

Stakeholder Management

Attention to Detail

Adaptability

Communication

Job description

At Thames Water, we make a daily difference to our 16 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing. We deliver life's essential service so our customers, communities and the environment can thrive.

As the UK’s largest water company, we are taking action for a new world of water - fixing the problems of today and building resilience for tomorrow.

The Asset, Operations & Capital Delivery (AO&CD) Portfolio Management Office (PMO) is designed as a ‘hub and spoke’ delivery model.

This model enables the ‘Hub’ PMO to provide critical delivery and enabling PMO services and the ‘Spoke’ PMOs in Asset Management & Engineering (AM&E), Capital Delivery (CD) and Renewals & Logistics (R&L) to drive standardised delivery across the AO&CD Project Lifecycle and enable the AMP8 Strategic Sponsor delivery model.

We are recruiting for a number of new roles within the PMO office – if you have the skills and the passion for any of the below roles, then please press the apply button!
Cost Controller – Baseline Management - Provide key support in cost control and reporting across programmes, helping maintain cost integrity, enable data-driven decisions, and uphold baseline change control for AMP8.

Cost Controller – Controls - Assist in driving cost performance reporting and analysis for the five-year business plan, providing actionable insights from complex data while ensuring data quality to support informed decision-making.

Document Management Analyst - Oversee the flow and integrity of documentation and communications for AM&E performance reporting, while supporting programme planning and ensuring alignment across both briefed and unbriefed capital works.

Governance and Assurance Analyst - Supporting the portfolio of strategic capital programmes and projects through governance and assurance initiatives, focusing on strategic programmes & sub-programmes across Water and Waste Portfolios.

Planning and Scheduling Analyst - Support the planning and scheduling framework within the AM&E Directorate, ensuring schedule integrity and enabling performance monitoring through structured reporting and data-driven assurance.

Reporting and Insights Analyst - Deliver performance reporting and data insights to support capital programme delivery and five-year planning, ensuring data integrity and enabling informed, strategic decision-making.

Risk Management Analyst - Support risk management across AM&E delivery by maintaining risk registers, conducting analysis, and ensuring compliance with PMO standards as part of the Hub and Spoke model.

Scope and Integration Analyst – Baseline Management - Support the successful delivery of change initiatives across our organisation, you’ll play a key role in understanding change impacts, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring the smooth adoption of new systems, processes, and ways of working.

Scope and Integration Analyst – Controls - Maintain scope structures and support change control and integration activities to ensure effective baseline management across the AM&E portfolio.

What you should bring to these roles:

• Proven track record managing large-scale capital programmes exceeding multimillion-pound budgets
• Strong stakeholder management with ability to communicate complex issues and information to all levels of stakeholder with clarity
• Experience operating within highly regulated industries
• Strong attention to detail
• Proven ability to adapt and contribute within rapidly evolving business environments
• Adept at navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities
• Flexible and willing to learn

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salaries depending on role and experience
• Annual Leave - 26 days holiday per year increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays)
• Annual Bonus Scheme (performance related)
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON
• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Find out more about our benefits and perks

Who are we?
We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

Learn more about our purpose and values

Working at Thames Water
Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy fast-tracked career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

Whether you’re interested in a role in one of our call centres or science labs, we’re looking for people like you with real passion and a burning desire to make things better.

So, if you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region and our planet.

Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.

Our overarching aim is to ensure that Thames Water is great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and offer extra support for those who need it throughout the recruitment process. Our aim is to remove any real or perceived barriers to success, so if you need assistance, we’re here to help and support.

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Disclaimer: due to the high volume of applications we receive, we may close the advert earlier than the advertised date, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible to avoid disappointment.