Commercial Business Partner

3 weeks ago

Warrington, United Kingdom United Utilities Full time

We have a great opportunity for a Commercial Business Partner to join our Commercial Department. This is a key Commercial leadership position which demonstrates and continually delivers a value added commercial service to enable UUW to be the best water company in the UK; reporting to the Head of Commercial.

You will Lead a Commercial Team that is either business unit or category aligned (c£100m to c£350m per annum) to deliver excellent outcomes for your stakeholders through delivery of an end-to-end procurement service to manage third party Suppliers. The scope of your responsibility includes all facets of Procurement, with a key emphasis around relationship management - both to your internal customer but also suppliers. Delivering key business goals to drive value from our supply chain is critical as well as transforming a commercial service as a positive disruptor.

Our Commercial Business partners should be excellent collaborators grasping their customer procurement needs from the outset as part of business planning and strategic engagement. Managing multiple partner and supplier relationships to ensure exemplary performance throughout their framework tenures as well as becoming a trusted business partner are core requirements. Leading by example, to drive results, efficiency, team engagement and continuous improvement as we move to a world class division of UUW.

**Job Accountabilities**:

- Responsible for Commercial Business Partnering for their customers; being their Procurement expert and point of contact for their third party relationships, both strategic partners and tactical suppliers
- Responsible for end to end ownership of the Procurement process; from sourcing through to contract management
- Responsible for the overall category strategy and delivery of savings & value initiatives in their area
- Understand and contribute to business strategy and policy through business planning, category planning and stakeholder influencing, being curious to drive change and improvement whilst not being afraid of being a ‘positive disrupter' to challenge the status quo
- Promote and develop insight into current and future market trends and dynamics of particular categories allowing UU to make informed choices on future business strategy
- Deploy category knowledge across Commercial function/UU and develop and maintain network of contacts in the business, industry and supply base
- Influence specification, supply and sourcing, particularly in terms of value for money, commercial risk, operational risk, green & carbon agenda, economies of scale, innovation and efficiency
- Negotiate commercial pricing and contractual agreements with external providers to ensure service delivery, quality, added value, total cost management and security of supply
- Drive performance of contracts and suppliers throughout the contract lifecycle by influencing stakeholders and embedding a culture of strong contract governance procedures, providing meaningful internal reporting to allow agile decision making
- Deliver innovation and value for money through the continuous development of their portfolio with detailed category plans and execution of sourcing strategies including; Market testing and insight, best practice commercial terms; contact assurance methods; supplier relationship management; volume leverage; total cost management; demand challenge; process efficiency/compliance; external benchmarking of best practice
- Establish and maintain working relationships with operational and business based senior management teams within UU and external suppliers
- Use of negotiating, influencing and motivational skills is important as well as collaboration Motivate, lead, engage and manage Commercial department that delivers high performance with confidence, trust and care
- Management of senior stakeholder relationships ensuring business strategy and policy is aligned to category plans as part of their Business Partnering responsibility
- Manage the conflicting interests of various business functions and service providers, taking ownership of their commercial matters
- To manage the Category, ensuring they are delivering in accordance with business requirements
- Coach, mentor and develop Commercial Delivery teams as required in line with specific development needs to ensure talent is retained with growing capability
- This list is not exhaustive and includes any other ad-hoc duties and responsibilities required from time to time.

**Knowledge and Skills**:

- Preferably degree educated, with a relevant post-graduate qualification (e.g. CIPS,RICS, MBA, MSC, IACCM)
- Experience of implementing new commercial relationships cross functional and business boundaries and a quantifiable track record of savings delivery and change implementation
- Knowledge of key procurement processes, tools and methodologies used by leading edge procurement practitioners including knowledge of ‘Category Management'
- Experience of SRM, Contract Manag

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