2026-11-09
Job Title: Head of Transformation - Enabling/Capital Projects
Location: Durrington
Transform one of the UK's most significant infrastructure investment programmes.
Few transformation opportunities offer the chance to influence the future of an essential public service at this scale.
Southern Water is embarking on an ambitious period of change and investment. As we continue to modernise our business and deliver a substantial capital programme, we are seeking an exceptional transformation leader who can help shape the future of how major projects are delivered across our organisation.
This is a career-defining opportunity to lead transformation within a business at the heart of environmental stewardship, customer service and infrastructure delivery. You will play a pivotal role in enabling the successful delivery of multi-billion-pound investment programmes that will improve resilience, enhance performance and support the communities we serve for generations to come.
Reporting into senior leadership, the Head of Transformation - Enabling Capital Projects will lead the design and delivery of large-scale transformation initiatives that improve how our capital investment programmes are planned, governed and executed.
You will partner with executive stakeholders, programme leaders and operational teams to drive meaningful, sustainable change across people, process, technology and ways of working.
This is not simply a programme leadership role.
It is an opportunity to influence strategic decision-making, build organisational capability and create the conditions for successful delivery of one of the UK's most significant infrastructure investment portfolios.
Success in this role will be measured not only through project delivery but through the lasting improvements you embed across the organisation.
We're looking for an influential and commercially astute transformation leader with a track record of delivering complex business change within highly regulated, asset-intensive environments.
You may currently be operating as a:
You will bring:
Experience within infrastructure, utilities, engineering, transportation or similarly complex environments will be highly valued.
Why Southern Water?
This is an opportunity to join an organisation with a clear sense of purpose and an ambitious vision for the future.
You'll be part of a leadership team committed to driving meaningful change, delivering critical investment and creating a more resilient, sustainable future for customers and communities across the South East.
If you are motivated by solving complex challenges, influencing at scale and leaving a lasting legacy, we'd love to hear from you.
Shape transformation. Enable delivery. Create lasting impact.
We are one of the largest water and wastewater companies in the South East of England and thrive on the passion and hard work of more than 2,000 employees.
Together we supply 532 million litres of drinking water every day to more than two million customers and treat and recycle 717 million litres of wastewater for more than four million customers in Kent, Sussex, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Water is essential to every aspect of our lives and we're proud to be at the heart of managing water and wastewater services. We drink it, cook with it and use it to clean. Our water supply faces big challenges - the population of the South East is growing fast, and climate change is bringing greater risk of droughts and more extreme weather. It’s a future of more people needing water and wastewater services, with less water to go around.
So, together with our customers and communities, we aim to provide a sustainable, high-quality water and wastewater service that helps us create a resilient future for water in the South East.
Find out more about us:
Website: www.southernwater.co.uk
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