Role Overview
Procurement at Thames Water plays a key role in delivering significant cost savings while driving wider commercial value across the business. Operating within a dynamic matrix environment, the role offers exposure to a broad range of high‑value projects, stakeholders, suppliers, and business functions. The team manages approximately £1.5 billion in annual spend, overseeing contracts ranging from £100,000 to several hundred million pounds.
Responsibilities
The purpose of this role is to provide analytical and commercial support to the wider Commercial team across multiple concurrent projects. The successful candidate will help assess procurement opportunities with stakeholders and support the end‑to‑end delivery of sourcing activities, ensuring recommendations deliver best value and align with business objectives.
* Obtain, cleanse and analyse large and complex data files to provide insight on historical spend and identify opportunities in cost and operational efficiency.
* Lead and support stakeholder (project) meetings and present findings to senior level commercial and operational managers to drive decision‑making.
* Demonstrate curiosity to understand macro and micro trends in the wider supply chain and apply them to commercial strategy.
* Take ownership of commercial data, proactively cleanse historic and forecast data to ensure accuracy and availability through commercial tools.
* Engage regularly with stakeholders to elicit information, define scope of analysis and support internal and external meetings to explain data analysis as requested.
* Meet time, cost and quality milestones at all times, proactively escalating risks to prevent potential issues.
* Proactively identify further opportunities for the analyst team to support the commercial process and embrace new initiatives.
Working Pattern
Monday to Friday, 36 hours per week.
Qualifications
* Degree‑qualified in a numerically focused discipline such as Engineering, Accounting, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or a related field.
* Proven experience in a similar analytical or commercial role within a fast‑paced organisation.
* Confident experience presenting business cases, insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders and influencing decision‑making.
* Proactive self‑starter with a strong analytical mindset and the ability to perform effectively under pressure and across multiple priorities.
* Advanced technical skills in Excel, VBA, Power BI, Power Query and PowerPoint, with the ability to turn complex data into clear and actionable insights.
* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work independently, prioritise competing demands and deliver high‑quality outputs efficiently.
* Strong problem‑solving capability, including identifying key issues, analysing information from multiple sources, and drawing clear, commercially sound conclusions.
* Good understanding of commercial business operations, with practical experience using business analysis methodologies and data modelling tools.
Benefits
* Competitive salary up to £60 000 per annum, depending on experience.
* Annual leave – 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 days with length of service (plus bank holidays).
* Performance‑related pay plan tied directly to company performance measures and targets.
* Generous pension scheme through AON.
* Access to a range of health and wellbeing benefits, including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle‑to‑Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.
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