Who are we?
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Thames Water is the UK's largest water and wastewater company. We make a daily difference to our 15 million customers by supplying 2.6 billion litres of water through 32,000 km of pipes, keeping taps flowing and toilets flushing.
At Thames Water, every one of our actions, big and small, matters every day. Water is essential to life, so our business is always open.
This is an exciting time to join Thames Water as we embark on our collaborative "turn-around" plan. This plan will ensure an ambitious, resilient, and sustainable wastewater service for future generations.
What makes this role unique ?
This is an exciting time to join Thames Water as we embark on our collaborative "turn-around" plan. This plan will ensure an ambitious, resilient, and sustainable wastewater service for future generations.
InStrategy and External Affairs we are responsible for shaping and embedding a strategy which delivers for our customers, communities and the environment. We manage relationships with key stakeholders, including regulators and policy makers, building trust to allow Thames Water to achieve its ambitions.
It is a very exciting time in Strategy and External Affairs as we are building towards our submission for the next price review later in 2023 alongside working to embed our vision for 2050 and delivering our annual performance report in July in a new way.
We are an energetic and vibrant team with plenty of opportunities to develop and challenge yourself, to get involved, learn and grow within the role. We are at the heart of a lot of changes within Thames Water and there is the possibility for plenty of exposure to a variety of areas in Thames Water.
We are also really passionate about offering flexible working for our employees, and are open to discussing options.
What you'll be doing?
The Strategy Manager is a curious and tenacious individual who proactively supports the Head of Strategy in turning Thames Water's long-term strategy into reality, ensuring strategic alignment across all parts of the company.
You will seek out and build a deep understanding of leading strategic thinking and practices, and how these apply to the Thames Water business. You will be key to ensuring to having the right capabilities, tools, processes and systems.
As a member of the Strategy and Regulatory Affairs team, the Strategy Manager will actively support the Head of Strategy in improving Thames Water's relationships with all our regulators and will work actively to support the culture.
Key accountabilities will incorporate
Support the Head of Strategy to drive Thames Water's long-term strategy.
Create detailed implementation plans to drive and track delivery of all aspects of the strategy.
Design and run appropriate governance, risk and assurance processes to enable effective decision-making and prioritisation in support of the strategy.
Work with Strategy team to embed ways of working underpin delivery of the strategy e.g. financial planning decisions, employee incentive programme.
Collaborate with Strategy team to embed ways of working underpin delivery of the strategy e.g. financial planning decisions, employee incentive programmes.
Manage strategic modelling and analysts to inform and develop strategic plans, and making recommendations based on the output.
Drive regular cadence of engagement within the strategy communities of practice.
Proactively monitor external trends, both within the water industry and in wider society, understanding how those trends could/should impact the strategy.
What you will bring to the role?