Project Manager

Yorkshire Water; Ledston; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company car

Annual bonus

Pension scheme up to 12%

Life assurance 4x pensionable salary

25 days leave + 2 wellness days

Retail savings scheme

Job summary

Yorkshire Water is recruiting a Project Manager - Business Change to join the Asset Delivery PMO in Leeds. The role is permanent, 37 hours, hybrid with 2 office days per week and regional travel.

You will bridge business needs, efficiency and people side of change to deliver benefits across capital delivery. You will build business cases, support planning, manage change activities, ensure readiness and sustainment, track benefits and sign off key documents.

Qualifications

• Delivery experience within business change and change management fundamentals.
• Strong governance and programme delivery capability.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Proven track record of project management.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including presenting complex information.

Responsibilities

• Support the programme manager with governance on the strategic change programme.
• Deliver key strategic change projects and continuous improvement activities.
• Design and deliver business readiness and change plans with engagement and comms across the programme.
• Have oversight of change initiatives across the business and our function to spot opportunities to align and impacts to delivery.
• Responsible for sustainment/ Reinforcement activities to ensure change is adopted and embedded.
• Responsible for benefits tracking and realisation across the change programme.
• Lead yourself and a team to deliver a programme of work that supports the business strategy and delivers strong, measurable outcomes.
• Produce key documents needed for sign-off by leadership teams.

Skills

Delivery experience

ProSci certified

Governance knowledge

Stakeholder management

Benefits tracking

Project management

Communication skills

Negotiation

Presentation skills

Professionalism

Education

APM qualification

Job description

Project Manager - Business Change

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience, (4b), £45,205 - £56,506
• A company car benefit
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum Bonus Opportunity for the Performance Year)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays - plus two extra wellness days!
• A great benefits package - choose from health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

Location: Leeds, hybrid working - 2 days in the office per week with regular regional travel to Yorkshire Water sites.

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday

We have an exciting opportunity for a Project Manager - Business Change to join the Asset Delivery PMO at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers. Could this be you?

What we do:

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry. The Capital Delivery team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators.

In AMP8, Asset Delivery PMO will support a multi-billion-pound programme of capital investment across YW’s clean and wastewater assets. The Capital Programme is growing by over 50% with strong efficiency targets.

We’re looking for an organised, people focussed Project Manager to join our team. You’ll play a key role in bridging the gap between business needs, efficiency and the people side of change which add value to our Asset Delivery teams and Yorkshire Water.

Where you fit in:

• Work with business representatives to investigate and analyse opportunities to drive efficiency across the capital delivery process.
• Provide input to the strategic planning process to ensure that change aligns with the long-term aspirations of the capital programme over current and future AMP’s.
• Build business cases to support investment in change activity which will drive cost reduction in programme delivery.
• Work with business representatives to support project planning and delivery of key objectives through the provision of change management resources and workshop facilitation services.
• Work with the Business Architects, Process Leads and Project and Programme Managers to complete detailed business impact assessments and develop the business change plan for agreed and prioritised opportunities for change initiatives, acting as a bridge between project/programme management and business operations.
• Obtain assurance from the relevant business operations that the change plan will deliver the required benefits.
• Preparing the business readiness plan for the transition to new ways of working and ensuring necessary launch approval and go/no go decisions are managed to a pre-defined set of criteria.
• Optimising the timing of the release of project deliverables into business operations.
• For smaller projects taking on the Project management of continuous improvement initiatives in addition managing business change.

As a Project Manager you will;

• Support the programme manager with key governance on the strategic change programme
• Deliver key strategic change projects and continuous improvement activities
• Design and deliver business readiness and business change plans, include launch, engagement and comms across the programme
• Have oversight of change initiatives across the business and our function to spot opportunities to align and impacts to delivery
• Responsible for sustainment/ Reinforcement activities to ensure change is adopted and embedded.
• Responsible for benefits tracking and realisation across the change programme
• Lead yourself and a team to deliver a programme of work that supports the business strategy and delivers strong, measurable outcomes
• Produce key documents needed for sign-off by leadership teams.

What skills & qualifications you will need:

• Delivery experience within business change – ideally qualified via ProSci or equivalent
• Solid understanding of programme governance and delivery
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Strong benefits tracking experience.
• Focused and driven individual who excels in a challenging environment
• You will demonstrate professionalism and excellent performance and will be an accomplished communicator, negotiator, and presenter.
• You will have a proven track record of project management
• You will have excellent written and verbal communication skills; including the ability to present and communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences.

You will also benefit from having:

• A recognised qualification in project/programme management such as APM is desirable but not essential.
• Ideally, you will have experience of working with others to drive innovation to deliver project efficiencies and cost savings for the business.

We embrace a flexible working model, where our hybrid setup typically requires an average of 2 days in the office per week. This could be slightly more when collaborative efforts, training or meeting deadlines demand it. For those who prefer to work on-site, our office is open Monday-Friday during working hours.

Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it's important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn't always easy!

Accessibility

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.

All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.