(EXT) Senior Specialist Advisor, Business Relationship Management

Natural Resources Wales (Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru); Cardiff; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Natural Resources Wales (Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru) is seeking a strategic senior practitioner to join the Business Relationship Management team to provide high-level expertise across Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) projects.

The role translates organisational strategies into practical project opportunities, engages senior stakeholders and external partners (e.g., Microsoft), and shapes digital direction to support wellbeing and business objectives.

Job description

The role

This influential new role sits within the Business Relationship Management team and focuses on providing high-level expertise across Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) projects to ensure project proposals are viable and aligned to organisational wellbeing and business objectives.

The position plays a strategic and influential role, helping shape Business Groups’ digital direction by:

• Developing and delivering simple to complex project proposals
• Supporting and enhancing existing systems and deployments
• Identifying and guiding future digital projects

A key responsibility is to translate organisational strategies (digital, recovery, and knowledge management) into practical project opportunities for the Digital Design Authority.

The role primarily involves:

• Engaging senior stakeholders and external partners (e.g. Microsoft)
• Analysing external technology roadmaps and aligning them with project bids to support organisational needs
• Influencing internal DDaT programmes and long-term planning

The role operates within the ITIL framework, ensuring adherence to best practice, NRW governance, including the Digital Design Authority (DDA) & the Independent Project Assurance Group IPAG) and continuous improvement.

Strong communication and stakeholder management are essential, and Welsh language fluency is required for at least one postholder to support effective relationship-building.

About us

There’s never been a more important time to join NRW (Natural Resources Wales) to make a real difference to the future of Wales’ people and nature. We are focussed on making our services better and simpler for citizens, business and stakeholders of Wales.

Established in 2013, NRW adopted a cloud first model without legacy technologies or migrations. Separated into sub-teams, we develop, manage and support a large Azure multi-region deployment supporting life preserving services for the nation 24x7. With over 100 web applications, associated databases and API’s, real-time environmental modelling, public alerting and reporting and IOT data collection of over 650 remote locations – interesting and exciting work with purpose is never far away.

Our ambition is to grow more talent in data, digital and technology in Wales over the coming years. To do that, we are collaborating with specialist design and development partners to enhance capacity and skills for the coming years. By creating blended teams of people from our own teams in NRW, and our delivery partners – we work collaboratively to shared goals and outcomes that deliver for the nation of Wales aligned to NRWs Digital and Corporate Strategy