Senior Sponsor (Compliance)

As a Senior Sponsor (Compliance), you’ll play a key role in delivering multiple water and wastewater projects, managing time, cost, quality, and performance commitments. Working alongside the Senior Principal Sponsor and engaging closely with internal and external stakeholders, you’ll provide end-to-end support for planning and execution, ensuring investment decisions align with long-term goals and business outcomes.

• Working with teams to resolve risks and trade-offs in project execution.
• Accountability for the delivery of water and wastewater projects, ensuring alignment with time, cost, and quality.
• Contributing to business cases for investment and demonstrating alignment with Thames Water’s objectives.
• Managing risks, tracking benefits, and ensuring projects contribute to regulatory and operational goals.
• Assisting in governance and decision-making processes, ensuring projects progress smoothly through approval stages.
• Engaging with stakeholders to build alignment and drive successful project outcomes.

Working at Thames Water

Hybrid with days in the office or on-site, depending on projects.

Base Location: Base location, Clearwater Court, Reading. Travel within the TV & London Patch.

• An understanding of wastewater compliance at the programme level.
• The ability to deliver clear direction and drive change.
• Experience with sponsorship working on large infrastructure projects.
• A collaborative approach, with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• A track record of successful project delivery.
• Experience working with major projects with significant political & stakeholder influence.
• Working with major projects with significant political & stakeholder influence.
• Experience in operations, asset management, or investment planning, ideally within the utilities sector.
• Knowledge of best-practice asset management. (e.g., IAM qualifications or equivalent experience).

When a crisis happens, we all rally around to support our customers. As part of Team Thames, you’ll have the opportunity to sign up to support our customers on the frontline as an ambassador. Full training will be given for what is undoubtedly an incredibly rewarding experience. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.

Thames Water is a unique, rewarding, and diverse place to work, where every day you can make a difference, yet no day is the same. As part of our family, you’ll enjoy meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and excellent benefits.

We’re committed to being a great, diverse, and inclusive place to work. We welcome applications from everyone and want to ensure you feel supported throughout the recruitment process. If you need any adjustments, whether that’s extra time, accessible formats, or anything else, just let us know. We’re here to help and support.

• Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
• Private Medical Health Care.
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
• Up to £90,000 per annum, depending on skills and relevant experience.
• Annual Bonus.
• Car Allowance.