Are you passionate about delivering outstanding customer experiences, driving change, and making a real impact?
At Thames Water, we’re looking for a Delivery & Governance Lead to champion improvements across people, processes, and technology within our Complaints function, ensuring every initiative enhances the way we serve our customers.
What you’ll be doing as our Delivery & Governance Lead
You’ll take ownership of initiatives from start to finish, ensuring they deliver measurable value. You’ll work closely with agile product teams to design and implement solutions that meet business needs, while safeguarding customer experience and business performance.
Your responsibilities will include
- Leading end-to-end delivery of assigned initiatives with a structured, customer-centred approach.
- Producing clear, regular reporting and governance presentations to keep stakeholders informed.
- Managing risks and issues, maintaining the RAID register, and escalating where necessary.
- Collaborating with subject matter experts to track progress, benefits, and resolve blockers.
- Building strong business cases and driving continuous improvement.
- Influencing and engaging stakeholders at all levels to gain buy-in and ensure success.
- Prioritising workload based on business value and listening to end users to shape solutions.
- Measuring and demonstrating the business value created by your initiatives.
Hours: 36 hours per week
What you should bring to the role
- Proven experience in stakeholder management and influencing at all levels.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to elicit requirements and define solutions.
- Demonstrated experience in a Customer Service environment, with a track record of improving processes and delivering customer satisfaction improvements.
- Experience in continuous improvement and working within cross-functional teams.
- Excellent planning skills, tenacity, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
What’s in it for you
- A competitive salary starting at up to £64,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.
- Generous holiday allowance – 26 days plus bank holidays, rising to 30 days with service.
- Performance-related bonus – linked to company and individual success.
- Pension scheme – through AON.
- Health & wellbeing benefits – including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, and more.
- Lifestyle perks – Cycle to Work scheme, shopping vouchers, life assurance, and more.
- Performance-related pay plan directly linked to company performance measures and targets.
Find out more about our benefits and perks (Please note different T&Cs apply if on secondment)
Location
Swindon, SN1 1HN
Location: Hybrid – Walnut Court – SN2 8BN
Company
Thames Water
Contract
Full-time
Hours
36 hours per week
Salary
£64,000 – £64,000
Posting and Closing dates
Posting date: 22 Aug 2026
Closing date: 4 Sept 2026
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.
Working at 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.
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.
Real purpose, real support, real opportunities. Come and join the Thames Water family. Why choose us? Learn more.
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. It’s also a great opportunity to learn more about our business and meet colleagues.
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