High-Impact Role | A rare career-defining opportunity | Green Finance
Talgarth, Brecon | Hybrid (2-3 days office based)
Robert Half is proud to be partnering exclusively with the Wye & Usk Foundation to appoint a Senior Commercial Manager - a rare and career-defining opportunity to sit at the intersection of environmental finance, commercial strategy and large-scale nature recovery.
The Wye & Usk Foundation is one of the most recognised river trusts in the UK, improving habitat, water quality and long-term ecological resilience across two of the region's most important catchments. Their work is ambitious, evidence-based, community-led and increasingly underpinned by innovative finance models that deliver genuine system change.
This role will play a pivotal part in Resilient Rivers - a groundbreaking programme partnering with farmers, businesses and the public sector to reduce flood risk, protect water supplies, and restore river health through nature-based, catchment-scale solutions.
As Senior Commercial Manager, you will help shape how capital flows into nature recovery, ensuring farmers, businesses and communities can transition to resilient, sustainable land and water management.
This is more than a role - it's a chance to help build the environmental markets of the future.
Co-design commercial strategies for nature markets (e.g. nutrient offsetting, water trading, natural capital).
Build funding models that blend public, private and green finance.
Negotiate long-term contracts with buyers and sellers.
Establish performance, certainty and risk-sharing frameworks.
Create and oversee structures (SPVs, CICs, Ltd entities) to enable scalable project delivery.
Attract and manage investment from corporate buyers, water companies, financial institutions and government.
Develop investment prospectuses and performance-based contracting models.
Organisational Commercial Leadership
Embed commercial thinking across the Foundation.
Support long-term sustainability planning and pricing strategy.
Build commercial capability across projects and teams.
Contracts & Commercial Management
Lead contract development, negotiation and risk management.
Represent the Foundation at high-profile forums.
Champion investment-readiness and commercial rigour across the organisation.
Strong commercial, business development or green finance experience
A track record in complex contract negotiation and investment modelling
Confidence working with government, regulators, landowners and private sector buyers
Experience with SPVs/CICs, UK biodiversity policy, nutrient neutrality or catchment management is a bonus - but not essential.
About the Wye & Usk Foundation
WUF is dedicated to improving the ecology, habitat and water quality of two of the UK's most important river systems.
Through initiatives like Resilient Rivers, they partner with farmers, communities, businesses and public bodies to address flooding, drought, water quality and biodiversity loss at landscape scale. The programme brings together stakeholders to treat the environment as one connected system - because our water challenges can only be solved collaboratively.
This is your chance to help deliver innovative, nature-based solutions backed by science, community and long-term investment.
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