Delivery Manager in Swindon

As a Delivery Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and delivering change that improves how we support our customers. Working closely with process owners, senior stakeholders, and Heads of Department, you’ll identify opportunities for improvement and turn them into clear, achievable transformation initiatives across people, processes, and technology. This is a Hybrid role based in our Walnut Court office in Swindon.

What you’ll be doing as a Delivery Manager:

• Own initiatives from concept to completion, taking a hands-on, end-to-end approach that turns ideas into real-world results.
• Shape customer-first solutions through insightful business analysis, clear problem statements, and compelling business cases.
• Bring structure, momentum, and determination to delivery, ensuring plans stay on track and outcomes are achieved.
• Build strong, trusted relationships across the business, confidently influencing stakeholders and securing buy-in.
• Act as the voice of the user, translating needs into clear, prioritised requirements and championing the best possible solutions.
• Showcase success by measuring impact, demonstrating value, and continuously improving how we deliver change.

What you should bring to the role:

• Take a customer-centred approach to stakeholder management, working closely with business areas to explore challenges and positively challenge thinking.
• Bring energy and ownership across the full project lifecycle, from solution definition and design through to delivery and closure.
• Lead effective requirements discovery using workshops, analysis, and process or workflow mapping.
• Deliver continuous improvement initiatives within cross-functional teams.
• Quickly build a strong understanding of business needs, environments, and future opportunities.
• Assess risks to the business, people, or customers and recommend practical mitigations, supported by strong Microsoft Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Teams).

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive salary from £47,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
• 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service (plus bank holidays).
• Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
• 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.

We’re the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, with more than 16 million customers relying on us every day to supply water for their taps and toilets. We want to build a better future for all, helping our customers, communities, people, and the planet to thrive. It’s a big job, and we’ve got a long way to go, so we need help from passionate and skilled people, committed to making a difference and getting us to where we want to be in the years and decades to come.

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.

If you’re looking for a sustainable and successful career where you can make a daily difference to millions of people’s lives while helping to protect the world of water for future generations, we’ll be here to support you every step of the way. Together, we can build a better future for our customers, our region, and our planet.

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.

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.