Transformation Office Specialist

Southern Water; Worthing; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Southern Water as a Transformation Office Specialist in Worthing, focusing on project risk management. This permanent role offers a hybrid work model and a competitive salary of circa £45,000. Contribute to a greener future while enjoying benefits like a generous pension, annual leave, and study support.

Benefits

Generous pension up to 11% contribution

25 days annual leave

Life assurance (4x salary)

Salary sacrifice electric car scheme

Health Cash Plan

Full funded eye tests

Two paid volunteering days a year

Occupational health service

Discounts with over 800 retailers

Study support for job-related qualifications

Qualifications

• Experience working in a Portfolio Office.
• Ideally holding relevant APM qualifications focusing on risk.
• Organised and capable of managing own work and tasks.

Responsibilities

• Managing risk associated with projects.
• Leading development of TO process.
• Owning and managing dependency and resource management.

Skills

Project risk management

Stakeholder communication

Problem solving

Attention to detail

IT literacy

Education

APM qualifications preferred

Job description

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Transformation Office Specialist, Worthing

Client: Southern Water

Location: Worthing, United Kingdom

Job Category: Other

EU work permit required: Yes

Job Reference: 078a00be711d

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Posted: 22.06.2025

Expiry Date: 06.08.2025

Job Description:

Closing Date: 2025-05-29

Job Title: Transformation Office Specialist - RISK (PMO)

Location: Durrington, West Sussex (Hybrid, 2-3 days a week)

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours per week

Salary: circa £45,000 (depending on skills and experience)

Join our organisation as we build towards a greener future, tackling climate change, minimising environmental impact, and reducing our carbon footprint!

Job Overview

Working within the Transformation Office; you'll specialise in project risk and issue management. You will bring a wealth of knowledge on this area and act as the SME within the Transformation Office.

Day to day you'll be:

• Managing the risk associated with projects
• Attending meetings relating to the project stream to offer advice on risk
• Owning Risk and Issue, Dependency and Resource Management
• Putting in place processes, practices, reporting, and ways of working related to effective identification and management of risks and issues across workstreams and portfolio
• Supporting the identification of dependencies across the portfolio working across workstreams to ensure effective management
• Ownership and identification of all resources aligned to Wave
• Leading development of TO process and ensuring TO team are aligned and aware
• Leading on the McKinsey change process in relation to the core system Wave to ensure alignment
• Managing/updating the change control log, risk log, TO handbook, etc.
• Completing workstream assurance reviews
• Maintaining Transformation updates and relevant material, serving as main POC for communication questions/requests

About You

• Experience working in a Portfolio Office
• Ideally relevant APM qualifications (risk modules preferred)
• Good understanding of project structures
• A pragmatic problem solver with strong attention to detail
• A helpful and supportive character who can offer guidance positively
• Strong communication skills
• Curious – interested in asking questions about what, how, or why
• Organised and capable of managing own work and tasks
• An observant, patient character with a 'customer centric' mentality
• Strong IT literacy, with the ability to learn and become an expert on new IT systems

Package

This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach between our Durrington office and home. We offer a salary of circa £45,000 per annum depending on skills and experience, along with benefits including:

• Generous pension up to 11% company contribution
• 25 days annual leave
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months)
• Health Cash Plan
• Full funded eye tests
• Two paid volunteering days a year
• Occupational health service
• Discounts with over 800 retailers
• Digital GP service
• Study support for job-related qualifications
• Flexible maternity leave and return options
• Cycle to work scheme

Join our Transformation team and explore career progression with a company committed to development, our customers, and the environment.

If you're interested but unsure if you meet all requirements or need flexible hours, contact us to discuss potential solutions.

If this role isn't quite right but you'd like to be contacted about future opportunities at Southern Water, register your details here: Introduce Yourself

Our core purpose is delivering water for life, supporting 24/7 incident resolution to ensure excellent customer service. Joining our incident support team means being ready to support outside regular hours when needed.

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