Senior Project Manager

About the Role

The Senior Project Manager role will lead complex workstreams on major infrastructure projects in South East England within the Environment and Water Portfolio, delivering above‑ground and below‑ground water and wastewater construction projects for clients such as Thames Water and Southern Water. The role involves delivering commission obligations and internal project performance, building senior client relationships, establishing effective communications, leading problem‑solving and decision‑making, managing teams and resources, and controlling commercial aspects across various contract arrangements. The business unit Advisory and Programme Delivery provides management services across built environment sectors, handling projects up to £20 bn and delivering programme, project, cost, and digital consulting services, especially for regulated water and wastewater clients. • Deliver commission obligations and internal project performance. • Build and manage strong relationships with senior client representatives. • Establish effective communications across project delivery, client, and stakeholder teams. • Lead problem solving and decision making. • Provide team leadership, resource planning and management. • Control internal and external commercial aspects of projects across various contractual arrangements. • Communicate effectively with clients, project teams, business managers and other units.

Key Responsibilities

• ▸project delivery
• ▸client relations
• ▸team leadership
• ▸resource planning
• ▸commercial control
• ▸problem solving

What You Bring

• Hold an engineering and/or project management degree or equivalent experience. • Be a member of the Association for Project Management (MAPM). • Possess APM PMQ qualification or equivalent (e.g., Managing Successful Programmes, PRINCE2 Practitioner). • Demonstrate substantial project management expertise and experience leading project teams to successful outcomes. • Have experience managing projects within the Water and Environment sector. • Exhibit strong client and stakeholder relationship building skills. • Show high commercial acumen and knowledge of planning and project controls. • Ability to motivate, inspire and develop high‑performing teams (preferred). • Ability to create an enjoyable and fulfilling work environment (preferred). • Strong focus on health and wellbeing (preferred). • Broad experience in the public sector environment (preferred). • Significant experience administering a wide range of contracts (preferred). • Demonstrated collaborative behaviours and strong interpersonal skills (preferred). • Proven leadership skills with adaptable leadership style (preferred).

Requirements

• ▸engineering degree
• ▸mapm member
• ▸apm pmq
• ▸prince2
• ▸water sector
• ▸leadership

Benefits

The company offers comprehensive benefits including private medical insurance, health cash plan, pension matching, life assurance, income protection, generous holiday entitlement, enhanced family and carers leave, professional development opportunities, and employee networks supporting diverse communities. • Private medical insurance for UK colleagues. • Health cash plan and access to free menopause support via Peppy. • Pension contributions matched between 4.5 % and 7 %. • Life assurance up to 4 × basic salary, optional increase to 6 ×. • Income protection scheme with financial and return‑to‑work support. • Minimum 33–35 days holiday inclusive of public holidays, increasing to 35 days after 5 years. • Enhanced family leave: 26 weeks paid maternity/adoption, 2 weeks paid paternity/partner, shared parental leave up to 24 weeks at full pay. • Additional five days of carers leave, two paid. • Annual professional institution subscription and broad learning and development opportunities. • Access to employee networks supporting LGBTQ+, gender, race, disability, and parent/carer communities.

Work Environment

Hybrid