Commercial Coordinator

Yorkshire Water; Leeds; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary £32,480–£40,571 (Band5a)

Annual incentive bonus (£1,000 max)

Pension up to 12% company contribution

25 days annual leave + 2 wellness days

Life assurance 4x pensionable salary

Salary sacrifice scheme

Health cash plan, critical illness,/d,

Retail savings scheme

Online GP service; cycle to work; gym/

Job summary

Yorkshire Water is seeking a proactive Commercial Governance Coordinator to join our Commercial Services team in Leeds. You will coordinate performance, planning and governance activities, providing visibility across a £1.5bn spend and supporting governance forums.

The role requires strong organisational skills, stakeholder engagement and the ability to drive improvements. Hybrid working 1-2 days in the Leeds office, 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Qualifications

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive and positive approach, taking ownership and following tasks through to completion.
• Experience coordinating activities, projects, programmes or governance processes.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate records and documentation.
• Ability to work independently and identify practical solutions to problems.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
• Ability to build rapport quickly and establish trusted working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and support delivery without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate performance, planning and governance activities across Commercial Services, helping provide visibility and oversight across a function with an annual spend of approximately £1.5bn.
• Support the effective operation of governance forums, ensuring actions, decisions, risks and commitments are captured, tracked and progressed.
• Build trusted relationships across Commercial Services and act as a key point of contact, helping stakeholders navigate processes and access the support and information they need.
• Coordinate key team priorities and activities, ensuring commitments are delivered and dependencies are identified and managed.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve governance arrangements, team effectiveness and ways of working.
• Coordinate and contribute to reports, presentations, updates and communications that support leadership teams and governance forums.
• Support planning and performance management activities, ensuring information is accurate, timely and communicated consistently.
• Maintain governance records, playbooks, templates and management information, ensuring key documentation remains accessible, accurate and up to date.
• Work collaboratively across Commercial Services to promote consistency, standardisation and adoption of agreed processes and ways of working.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities, workshops and cross-functional initiatives.
• Provide practical support to improvement activities, helping translate ideas into actions and supporting successful implementation.
• Demonstrate initiative and ownership by identifying issues, proposing solutions and driving agreed actions through to completion.

Skills

Organisational skills

Communication

Proactive

Coordination

Attention to detail

Independent working

Stakeholder relations

Team collaboration

Problem solving

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Power BI

Job description

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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 £32,480 - £40,571 (Band5a)
• 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!

Where I’d work: 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.

Work type: Permanent. 37 hours per week, Monday – Friday.

What we do:

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 plays an important part in supporting the effective operation of the Performance & Governance team through strong coordination, stakeholder engagement and governance support. Working across Commercial Services, the role contributes to the planning, performance and governance activities that provide visibility, oversight and support informed decision-making across a function with an annual spend of approximately £1.5bn.

The role is responsible for coordinating key activities, ensuring governance processes operate effectively and supporting the delivery of priorities across the function. The successful candidate will work with stakeholders at all levels, helping connect people, information and processes to drive consistency, improve ways of working and support the successful delivery of business objectives.

We're looking for someone who enjoys creating order from complexity, takes ownership of outcomes and can build strong working relationships across a broad stakeholder network. This role offers genuine responsibility and influence, requiring excellent organisational skills, sound judgement and a proactive approach to identifying and implementing improvements.

Where You Fit In

• Coordinate performance, planning and governance activities across Commercial Services, helping provide visibility and oversight across a function with an annual spend of approximately £1.5bn.
• Support the effective operation of governance forums, ensuring actions, decisions, risks and commitments are captured, tracked and progressed.
• Build trusted relationships across Commercial Services and act as a key point of contact, helping stakeholders navigate processes and access the support and information they need.
• Coordinate key team priorities and activities, ensuring commitments are delivered and dependencies are identified and managed.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve governance arrangements, team effectiveness and ways of working.
• Coordinate and contribute to reports, presentations, updates and communications that support leadership teams and governance forums.
• Support planning and performance management activities, ensuring information is accurate, timely and communicated consistently.
• Maintain governance records, playbooks, templates and management information, ensuring key documentation remains accessible, accurate and up to date.
• Work collaboratively across Commercial Services to promote consistency, standardisation and adoption of agreed processes and ways of working.
• Support stakeholder engagement activities, workshops and cross-functional initiatives.
• Provide practical support to improvement activities, helping translate ideas into actions and supporting successful implementation.
• Demonstrate initiative and ownership by identifying issues, proposing solutions and driving agreed actions through to completion.

What Skills & Qualifications You Will Need

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with confidence engaging stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive and positive approach, taking ownership and following tasks through to completion.
• Experience coordinating activities, projects, programmes or governance processes.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to maintain accurate records and documentation.
• Ability to work independently and identify practical solutions to problems.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and SharePoint.
• Ability to build rapport quickly and establish trusted working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively across teams and support delivery without direct authority.
• Experience working in a coordination, governance, project support or business support role.

You Will Also Benefit From Having

• Experience working within Commercial, Procurement or regulated environments.
• Familiarity with Power BI or other reporting and collaboration tools.
• Knowledge of project management, change management or continuous improvement approaches.

Although we operate 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, it’s important to us that we support flexible working patterns and job share options (when we can), to help you make the best of both your work and home life. We know that juggling childcare responsibilities or getting that ideal work/life balance isn’t always easy!

Do we sound like your cup of tea?

Closing date is 11th October 2026

If successful for the role, you will be required to undergo pre-employment checks that will include a Basic Disclosure Check, carried out through a Third-Party Company, prior to commencing employment. Depending on the role, you may also be required to go through the security vetting process for either a Counter Terrorist Check or Security Check clearance. All our roles are subject to a medical questionnaire, and further medicals when required.

We are committed to removing barriers and ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to everyone. We offer a range of adjustments to make your application experience as comfortable and straightforward as possible.

If you have an accessibility need, disability, or condition that requires changes to the recruitment process, please include this information in your application. We will then discuss any reasonable adjustments required.

Kelda Group reserve the right to close this position before the published closing date, should the need occur. We therefore advise that you complete and submit your application as soon as possible.