Commercial Programme Lead

Commercial Programme Lead (Commercial Services)

Hello! Thanks for stopping by. Let us tell you about all the great reasons to join us here at Yorkshire Water:

• We offer a competitive salary, depending on experience £50,622 - £63,277
• Annual incentive related bonus (£1000 maximum bonus opportunity for the performance year)
• Attractive pension scheme (up to 12% company contribution)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
  - plus two extra wellness days!
• Life assurance cover of 4 times pensionable salary
• A great benefits package - choose from a salary sacrifice scheme, health cash plan scheme, critical illness insurance, dental insurance, life assurance flex and partner cover.
• Retail savings scheme
• Online GP service, cycle to work scheme, gym membership discounts and many more!

This role will be based in our new office at Leeds Valley Park. There will hybrid working in place, with an expectation to be in the office for 1-2 days per week.

Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday.

Everyone has an idea of what a water company does. Here in Yorkshire, we make sure that over 5.4 million people living in the region and the millions of people who visit our region each year, can rely on our services, and have clean and safe drinking water on tap and that their wastewater is taken away. But for us, it's so much more than this.

We look after communities, protect the environment, and plan to look after Yorkshire's water, today, tomorrow 24/7, 365 days a year. We provide essential water and wastewater services to every corner of the Yorkshire region, and play a key role in the region's health, wellbeing, and prosperity.

New environmental legislation, unprecedented levels of investment and changing expectations from customers means that this is an exciting time to discover opportunities within the water industry.

Commercial Services plays a critical role in enabling the business to deliver its long term strategy and maintain financial stability through effective procurement and commercial management. The function works closely with the wider business and supply chain to secure value, manage risk, and ensure robust commercial outcomes.

Within Commercial Services, Commercial Excellence leads our Centre of Excellence approach- managing portfolio performance, setting clear standards and supporting our improvement journey across the department.

This role focuses on supporting planning, governance and performance management across Commercial Services. You'll work across the function to provide visibility of priorities, performance, risks and delivery progress, helping leaders make informed decisions and focus on what matters most.

We're looking for someone who combines strong stakeholder engagement, governance and planning skills with the ability to translate information into meaningful insight, challenge and action.

• Support planning and prioritisation activities across Commercial Services, helping leaders balance demand, capacity and business priorities.
• Maintain visibility of key Commercial Services priorities, ensuring progress, risks, dependencies and delivery challenges are understood and communicated.
• Lead key governance and performance review forums, ensuring discussions are informed, actions are clear and decisions support business objectives.
• Facilitate discussions with leaders and stakeholders, providing insight, challenge and recommendations to support decision-making.
• Provide oversight of KPI reporting and performance measures, ensuring leaders have clear visibility of performance, risks and opportunities across Commercial Services.
• Work closely with Commercial Intelligence colleagues to translate performance information into meaningful insight, actions and decision support.
• Identify and elevate risks, issues and dependencies that may impact delivery of Commercial Services objectives.
• Develop and maintain governance processes, standards and tools that support effective oversight and decision-making.
• Coordinate activities that span multiple teams, ensuring alignment on priorities and visibility of cross-functional dependencies.
• Build strong relationships across Commercial Services and with key stakeholders, creating alignment and encouraging collaboration.
• Support leaders by providing insight and recommendations on key priorities, performance and business challenges.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning, prioritisation, governance and performance visibility across the function.
• Support the development of effective performance and governance reporting, ensuring leaders have the information required to make informed decisions.

• Strong experience supporting planning, governance, performance or business management activities within a complex environment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to engage, challenge and build credibility at all levels.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to…