Senior Transformation Manager - Operating Model & Delivery

JAM Recruitment Ltd; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 66,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave 26 days + 4 bank holidays

Car Allowance

Performance-related pay

Generous Pension

Private Medical Health Care

Wellbeing benefits

Job summary

Thames Water in Reading is seeking a Senior Transformation Manager to join the Strategic Operations & Transformation team within AO&CD. You will lead operating model transformation initiatives, design future-state models, governance, and work with senior leaders to deliver improvements across asset operations and capital delivery.

In this role you will shape strategy, drive performance, and enable sustainable change for customers and the environment.

Qualifications

• Experience leading operating model and organisation design initiatives within a transformation environment.
• Experience developing new capabilities and improving ways of working.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders and influencing decisions across complex organisations.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
• Ability to navigate ambiguity and bring structure to complex challenges.
• Experience developing transformation plans or strategic recommendations.
• Strong PowerPoint, data analysis and storytelling skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead workstreams that support the development and implementation of AO&CD's operating model transformation.
• Evaluate current organisational, governance and operational capabilities to identify improvement opportunities.
• Design future-state operating models, governance frameworks, decision-making processes and ways of working.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with leaders and subject matter experts.
• Translate strategic objectives into practical and deliverable transformation plans.
• Work across multiple business functions to ensure integrated end-to-end solutions.
• Build compelling recommendations and executive-level outputs that support decision-making.
• Identify risks, dependencies and barriers to delivery and support the embedding of sustainable improvements that deliver measurable business outcomes.

Skills

Operating model design

Governance design

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Facilitation

Problem solving

Leadership

Job description

Thames Water in Reading is seeking a Senior Transformation Manager to join the Strategic Operations & Transformation team within AO&CD. You will lead operating model transformation initiatives, design future-state models, governance, and work with senior leaders to deliver improvements across asset operations and capital delivery.

In this role you will shape strategy, drive performance, and enable sustainable change for customers and the environment.