Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst – Procurement

Thames Water’s Procurement team plays a key role in delivering significant cost savings and driving commercial value across the business. The team manages approximately £1.5 billion in annual spend and supports a wide range of high‑value projects.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates and are committed to diversity and inclusion.

Key Responsibilities

• Obtain, cleanse, and analyse large complex data sets to provide insights on historical spend and identify cost and operational efficiency opportunities.
• Lead and support stakeholder project meetings, presenting findings to senior commercial and operational managers to drive decision making.
• Analyse macro and micro supply‑chain trends and apply insights to commercial strategy.
• Own commercial data – proactively cleanse historic and forecast data and ensure accurate availability through commercial tools.
• Engage with stakeholders to elicit information, define scope of analysis and support internal and external meetings to explain data analysis.
• Ensure time, cost and quality milestones are met and risk escalated proactively.
• Identify further opportunities for the analyst team to support the commercial process and embrace new initiatives.

Location & Working Pattern

Hybrid – Clear Water Court, Reading; Monday to Friday 36‑hour week.

Required Qualifications

• Degree in a numerically focused discipline such as Engineering, Accounting, Mathematics, Finance, or Economics.
• Proven experience in a similar analytical or commercial role in a fast‑paced organisation.
• Experience presenting business cases and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Strong analytical mindset, self‑starter, ability to work under pressure and across multiple priorities.
• Advanced technical skills in Excel, VBA, Power BI, Power Query and PowerPoint.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong problem‑solving ability, with experience in data modelling tools.
• Good understanding of commercial business operations.

Benefits

• Competitive salary up to £60 000 per annum.
• Annual leave: 26 days + bank holidays, increasing to 30 days with length of service.
• Performance‑related pay linked to company performance.
• Generous pension scheme via AON.
• Benefits covering health and well‑being, including annual health MOTs, physiotherapy, counselling, Cycle‑to‑Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.

Disclaimer: Due to the high volume of applications, the advert may close earlier than the advertised date. Please apply as soon as possible.

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