Job Description

Senior Programme Manager

At Severn Trent, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re in the top 5% of utility companies worldwide when it comes to employee engagement and ranked as a Top 50 UK Employer on Glassdoor. Join us in making a positive impact on the environment and our communities, while being valued and supported in a truly inclusive workplace.

If you want to do more, because you care, we want you on our team.

Within our Capital Delivery department, we are looking for a Senior Programme Manager to join our Coventry Team.

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW  

Based from our Finham (Coventry) or Head office (Coventry), the Senior Programme Manager will lead an integrated team to deliver portfolios and programmes of work within Severn Trent’s Capital Investment Programme. You will lead a team of Project Managers and Assistant Project Managers, working with key stakeholders to deliver assigned projects to time and budget, continuously challenging and innovating to improve performance and drive continuous improvement. You will provide robust leadership to enable design, procurement and construction of multiple projects as well as nurturing the development of your team and their success.

WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE

The Senior Programme Manager is accountable for the strategic leadership, integration and successful delivery of complex programmes and portfolios of projects within the Capital Delivery framework.
The role provides senior programme-level oversight, assurance and direction across multiple project teams, ensuring delivery aligns to organisational strategy, governance requirements and customer outcomes.
Operating above the Lead Project Manager role, the Senior Programme Manager sets programme direction, resolves complex cross-project risks and dependencies, and provides senior leadership intervention where delivery challenges arise.
Demonstrating strong leadership capability, with direct line management accountability for project management teams.
The role deputises for the Delivery Business Lead as required, representing the sub-service in senior forums, supporting strategic planning and decision-making, and ensuring continuity of leadership, performance and governance across the programme.
The Senior Programme Manager plays a key role in driving consistency, performance improvement and innovation across capital programmes, while embedding a strong safety culture and ensuring sustainable, compliant delivery.
Comfortable travelling to sites and offices across the region as required

WHAT EXPEREINCE IS REQUIRED

Proven experience leading and managing project management teams within a capital delivery or complex delivery environment.
Proven experience leading the delivery of complex programmes or portfolios of projects within a capital delivery or regulated infrastructure environment, with accountability for integrating multiple workstreams and delivery teams.
Significant experience operating at senior programme level, providing leadership, direction and assurance across multiple Project Managers and Lead Project Managers, with direct line management accountability.
Demonstrable experience resolving high-complexity delivery risks, interdependencies and escalations, including issues that impact programme outcomes, investment confidence or customer commitments.
Experience working within NEC contract environments and large-scale capital programmes, with a strong understanding of commercial, contractual and supplier-related risk at programme level.
Proven ability to provide programme-level oversight of cost, schedule, risk and benefits, ensuring robust governance, controls and assurance are consistently applied.
Strong understanding of H&S legislation, CDM requirements and engineering risk management, with experience embedding safety-first behaviours across large delivery programmes.
Experience contributing to medium- to long-term programme planning, investment prioritisation and delivery strategy, working in partnership with senior stakeholders, PMO and commercial teams.
Demonstrable capability to represent programmes in senior governance and escalation forums, providing clear, evidence-based recommendations and decision support.
Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with experience influencing and working collaboratively with senior internal stakeholders, delivery partners and supply chain leadership.
A proactive, strategic and improvement-focused mindset, with experience using performance insight, lessons learned and innovation to improve programme delivery outcomes.
Highly developed communication and organisational skills, with strong IT literacy (Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Power BI).

HOW WE’LL REWARD AND CARE FOR YOU

It’s not just a job; it’s a career. We offer benefits that reward great work and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. Plus, you’ll contribute to the environment and community too.

Here are some of our favourites:
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/sell up to 5 additional days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- Two volunteering days per year

About Severn Trent

Water is wonderful. Without it we’d be lost. With it, everything’s possible. For every toothbrush, for every loo flushed. For the hot showers, the cool drinks, the cups of tea. But it’s not just at the heart of our homes. It’s at the heart of everything; our schools, our businesses, our hospitals. Saving lives, helping communities thrive.

We’re Severn Trent, a diverse and amazing group of people who want to keep it that way. We bring you clean water and we take it away safely too. But it’s not just what we do. It’s how we do it: not just talking, but going over and above. Stepping up and rolling our sleeves up.

It’s because we care. Not only about our water but our corner of the country. And we care for our amazing people who make all this possible. Don’t just take our word for it; we’re a Glassdoor Top 50 Company – one of the best employers in the UK right now.

At Severn Trent, we do more, because we care.

Industry

Energy & Utilities

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Headquarters

Coventry, GB

Year Founded

1974

Website

severntrent.com

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