Location
Hybrid – Clear Water Court, Reading

Hours
Monday to Friday, 36 hours per week

Salary
Up to £60,000 per annum depending on experience

About the Role
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, this 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. The purpose of this role is to provide analytical and commercial support to the wider Commercial team across multiple concurrent projects. You 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.

As a Senior Business Analyst, your time will predominantly be split between data analytics, market analysis, and stakeholder engagement. This will involve:
- Obtaining, cleansing, and analysing large and complex data files to provide insight on historical spend and identify opportunities in cost and operational efficiency using historic and forecast information
- Leading and supporting stakeholder meetings and presenting findings to senior commercial and operational managers to drive decision making
- Understanding macro and micro trends in the wider supply chain and applying these to commercial strategy
- Taking ownership of commercial data, proactively cleansing historic and forecast data to ensure accuracy and availability through commercial tools
- Regularly engaging with stakeholders to elicit information, define scope of analysis, and support internal and external meetings to explain data analysis
- Meeting time, cost, and quality milestones with proactive risk escalation to prevent potential issues
- Proactively identifying further opportunities for the analyst team to support the commercial process and embracing new opportunities

Who we are
We are the UK’s largest water and wastewater company, serving more than 16 million customers daily. We are committed to building a better future for our customers, communities, people, and the planet. Join us to make a meaningful difference and help protect the world of water for future generations.

Working at Thames Water
Thames Water offers a unique, rewarding, and diverse workplace where every day you can make a difference. We provide meaningful career opportunities, flexible working arrangements, and excellent benefits. Join us to build a sustainable and successful career while helping millions of people and protecting the environment.

Benefits
- Competitive salary up to £60,000 per annum depending on experience
- 26 days annual leave increasing to 30 with length of service (plus bank holidays)
- Performance-related pay linked to company targets
- Generous pension scheme through AON
- Access to health and wellbeing benefits including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers, and life assurance

Experience
- Proven experience in a similar analytical or commercial role within a fast-paced organisation
- Confident and proven experience presenting business cases, insights, and recommendations to senior stakeholders and influencing decision-making

About you
- A proactive self-starter with a strong analytical mindset
- Ability to perform effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong problem-solving capability with the ability to analyse information from multiple sources and draw commercially sound conclusions
- Good understanding of commercial business operations and practical experience using business analysis methodologies and data modelling tools

Qualifications
- Degree-qualified in a numerically focused discipline such as Engineering, Accounting, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or a related field
- Advanced technical skills in Excel, VBA, Power BI, Power Query, and PowerPoint with the ability to turn complex data into clear and actionable insights