Senior Project Manager - Business Change in Bradford

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Project Manager (Business Change) to join the Asset Delivery PMO at Yorkshire Water and be a part of helping Yorkshire Water to provide the best service to our customers.

Location: Buttershaw, Bradford, hybrid working – 2 days a week in office. As part of the role, you will be required to travel to different Yorkshire Water locations. Pending office move to Leeds (LS10) from Summer 2026.

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

What We Do: Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it’s so much more than this. We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity. New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

The Capital Delivery team are a key part of how we plan to meet the changing expectations of customers and regulators. In AMP8, Asset Delivery PMO will support a multi‑billion‑pound programme of capital investment across YW's clean and wastewater assets. The Capital Programme is growing by over 50% with strong efficiency targets.

Where You Fit In:

• Work with business representatives to investigate and analyse opportunities to drive efficiency across the capital delivery process.
• Provide input to the strategic planning process to ensure that change aligns with the long‑term aspirations of the capital programme over current and future AMPs.
• Build business cases to support investment in change activity which will drive cost reduction in programme delivery.
• Work with business representatives to support project planning and delivery of key objectives through the provision of change management resources and workshop facilitation services.
• Work with the Business Architects, Process Leads and Project and Programme Managers to complete detailed business impact assessments and develop the business change plan for agreed and prioritised opportunities for change initiatives, acting as a bridge between project/programme management and business operations.
• Obtain assurance from the relevant business operations that the change plan will deliver the required benefits.
• Prepare the business readiness plan for the transition to new ways of working and ensure necessary launch approval and go/no go decisions are managed to a pre‑defined set of criteria.
• Optimise the timing of the release of project deliverables into business operations.
• For smaller projects, take on the Project management of continuous improvement initiatives in addition to managing business change.

Senior Project Manager Role:

• Support the programme manager with key governance on the strategic change programme.
• Deliver key strategic change projects and continuous improvement activities.
• Design and deliver business readiness and business change plans, including launch, engagement and comms across the programme.
• Have oversight of change initiatives across the business and our function to spot opportunities to align and impacts to delivery.
• Responsible for sustainment/reinforcement activities to ensure change is adopted and embedded.
• Responsible for benefits tracking and realisation across the change programme.
• Lead yourself and a team to deliver a programme of work that supports the business strategy and delivers strong, measurable outcomes.
• Produce key documents needed for sign‑off by leadership teams.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Significant delivery experience within business change, ideally qualified via ProSci or equivalent.
• Solid background of programme governance and delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
• Strong benefits tracking experience.
• Focused and driven individual who excels in a challenging environment.
• Great people management skills and be a coach and mentor to your team colleagues, assisting in peer reviews of projects not under your control to support the overall programme needs.
• Demonstrated professionalism, excellent performance and an accomplished communicator, negotiator and presenter.
• Proven track record of project management.
• Experience of leadership and working with multi‑disciplinary teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present and communicate complex information to a wide range of audiences.

Additional Benefits:

• A recognised qualification in project/programme management such as APM is desirable but not essential.
• Ideally, you will have experience of working with others to drive innovation to deliver project efficiencies and cost savings for the business.

Benefits Package:

• Competitive salary £52,855‑£77,178.
• Company car benefit (£6,000 cash allowance).
• Annual incentive related bonus up to 15% of annual salary.
• Private health care.
• Attractive pension scheme up to 12% company contribution.
• Life assurance cover four times pensionable salary.
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays and an extra wellness day.
• Retail savings scheme, online GP service, cycle‑to‑work scheme, gym membership discounts and more.

If you have experience as a Senior Project Manager and want to help us deliver great service for our customers whilst looking after the environment, apply today.

Accessibility: We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. If you have an accessibility need, disability or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.

Other Information: No agencies please. All roles are subject to a medical questionnaire and further medicals when required. If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre‑employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third‑Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance.