About this role
Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience in capital planning, investment programmes, portfolio management or capital delivery within a complex infrastructure or asset-intensive environment.
- Ability to interpret performance information and turn it into clear recommendations and actions.
- Experience supporting senior decision-making through insight, analysis and strategic challenge.
- Strong stakeholder-management and influencing skills, with confidence working across organisational boundaries and with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Ability to communicate complex risks, opportunities and priorities clearly and engagingly.
- Experience driving improvement, embedding change and helping teams focus on priorities.
- Commercial awareness and a passion for delivering value.
- Full driving licence and access to transport for role-related travel.
- Experience in water, waste, utilities, energy, transport, rail or wider infrastructure sectors would be beneficial.
- Exposure to capital efficiency, benefits realisation, portfolio performance, value management or continuous improvement would be beneficial.
- Experience working with Sponsor, Finance, Engineering, PMO or Portfolio Management teams would be beneficial.
- Knowledge of portfolio governance, investment controls and strategic planning processes would be beneficial.
- A qualification in project, programme or portfolio management, engineering, commercial management, finance or continuous improvement would be beneficial.
Responsibilities
- Act as the strategic capital efficiency lead for either our Water or Waste portfolio, working with Sponsor Directors to translate agreed priorities into focused efficiency activity.
- Provide insight, challenge and recommendations to support senior leadership decision-making.
- Review portfolio performance and identify risks, gaps, opportunities and emerging trends.
- Translate sponsor priorities into focused activity across delivery teams through our Capital Efficiency Partners.
- Assess the maturity, credibility and deliverability of efficiency opportunities using delivery evidence and input from our Capital Efficiency Partners before presenting them to sponsors.
- Develop portfolio narratives explaining performance, progress and areas requiring intervention.
- Influence strategic direction and focus attention on the areas that can deliver the greatest value.
- Work across Sponsorship, Delivery, Finance and PMO functions to create a coherent portfolio-wide view of efficiency performance.
- Help shape the future capital efficiency strategy across our infrastructure investment programme.
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We are Thames Water, the UKs largest water and wastewater company, serving more than 16 million customers. Our purpose is to help customers, communities, people and the planet thrive. This Portfolio Capital Efficiency Lead role offers the opportunity to join our new Capital Efficiency team and help shape efficiency across our multi-billion-pound investment programme, working closely with Sponsor Directors and senior leaders. It is a hybrid role based at our Clearwater Court office, with an expectation of working on site and in the office two to four days per week, and includes role-related travel. We offer a salary of up to £75,000 per annum depending on skills and experience, a £5,800 annual car allowance, performance-related pay, a generous pension scheme through AON, private medical healthcare and benefits supporting health, wellbeing and finances.
We offer meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements and support throughout the recruitment process, including adjustments where needed. We welcome applicants with diverse experiences and transferable skills; water or waste sector experience is not essential. Team members can also volunteer for fully trained frontline ambassador support during customer crises.
last updated 46 week of 2026