Programme Manager
Thames Water • Reading, England • Posted June 01, 2026
About the Role
Lead major digital transformation programmes, delivering data-driven change that improves resilience, efficiency, and customer impact across the UK’s largest water company.
This role offers end-to-end ownership of large-scale digital transformation, with exposure to senior stakeholders, budgets up to £10m, and responsibility for governance, delivery, and team leadership—combining strong commercial, delivery, and strategic influence.
What you’ll be doing as a Programme Manager
This role offers end-to-end ownership of large-scale digital transformation, with exposure to senior stakeholders, budgets up to £10m, and responsibility for governance, delivery, and team leadership—combining strong commercial, delivery, and strategic influence.
What you’ll be doing as a Programme Manager
- Define and baseline the programme’s scope, plan and budget that will successfully deliver the business outcomes/objectives
- Identify, engage and manage direct and indirect stakeholders appropriately in the context of their role within the programme, up to and including Executive Director level.
- Identify and manage RAID items within the programme and escalate where appropriate.
- Attend project initiation workshops and creation of any a...