As Commercial Intelligence Manager, you will guide Welsh Water’s commercial insight, forecasting and market intelligence capability. You own the procurement delivery plan, ensuring upcoming activity is captured, sequenced and shapes procurement priorities. You and your team produce clear, digestible insight products that give the business a reliable forward commercial view. You interpret outputs from the Data, AI and Automation pillar and turn them into commercial direction, strategic narratives and practical insight. You also guide Welsh Water’s market management activity, ensuring market health, supplier intelligence and forward signals are understood internally and across the supplier market.
You will guide the Commercial Intelligence pillar, giving procurement and the wider business a clear, forward view of commercial priorities, risks and opportunities. By maintaining the enterprise procurement portfolio and anticipating shifts in market conditions, you will enable evidence-based recommendations making and ensure activity is sequenced and planned in line with organisational need. You turn data and market signals into commercial intelligence that directly shapes procurement priorities and supplier market behaviour.
You will manage and develop the Commercial Intelligence team, ensuring the function delivers high quality market and supplier insights and forward commercial visibility through clear standards, prioritisation and professional judgement.
Key responsibilities of the role
1. Set the method for interpreting business need, surfacing demand and shaping the forward view of procurement activity, ensuring emerging requirements are understood early and converted into clear planning signals for the procurement portfolio.
2. Own the end to end procurement portfolio and its delivery plan, priorities, sequencing and trade offs, and adjusting activity as commercial conditions change so procurement effort, resources and supplier signalling stay aligned.
3. Own commercial forecasting for cost, risk and capacity so it informs planning, budgeting, prioritisation and benefits delivery, highlighting commercial opportunities and pressures early for Finance and procurement management.
4. Own senior level engagement with directorates to surface upcoming demand, ensuring procurement is positioned, resourced and informed ahead of key activity.
5. Own market management insight, producing market health insight and supplier intelligence that provide authoritative understanding of market conditions, supply chain capacity, cost pressures and commercial risk, and strengthen procurement priorities.
6. Prioritise the development of commercial intelligence products, ensuring they translate business needs, data signals and market information into clear, evidence based commercial instruction for senior decision making
7. Provide strategic supplier and supply chain intelligence, giving clear, defensible insight and recommendations that inform category strategies, commercial risk assessments and recommendations across all suppliers and contracts.
8. Guide cost intelligence for the organisation, ensuring shifts in market prices, inflation and supply conditions are identified early, communicated clearly and used to steer commercial choices.
9. Set the approach for value and benefits insight, ensuring reporting is robust, evidence based and aligned with organisational commercial goals.
10. Guide commercial performance insight, providing senior mangers with a clear and consistent commercial narrative on delivery progress, risks and value performance.
11. Establish and maintain early warning indicators, maintaining visibility of commercial drift, delivery risk and market shifts, and surfacing signals early to support timely action.
