Strategic Supply Chain Leader – Integration
Yorkshire Water
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Job summary
Yorkshire Water is seeking a Supply Chain Strategy & Integration Manager to lead demand intelligence, market insight and supply chain readiness within the AMP8 portfolio. You will connect programme ambition with market capability, guiding senior leaders on deliverability and commercial readiness.
Join a team delivering major capital investment, driving strategic supplier engagement, and shaping integrated commercial strategies across multiple functions.
Qualifications
- Strong commercial and procurement experience within large-scale infrastructure, utilities or capital delivery environments.
- Proven experience in demand management, integrating programme, commercial, procurement and supply chain activities.
- Strategic commercial approach to Category Management, procurement planning and Supplier relationship management.
- Skilled at influencing and building relationships with senior stakeholders across complex organisations.
- A collaborative leader who builds trust, drives continuous improvement and role models organisational values and behaviours.
- Strategic and analytical mindset, with the ability to turn complex challenges into clear commercial solutions.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience driving value, managing costs and supporting contract performance.
- Solid understanding of UK water sector regulations, commercial models and delivery frameworks.
Responsibilities
- Acting as a strategic adviser to senior leaders on programme deliverability, market conditions, supply chain capability and commercial readiness.
- Leading demand intelligence activities to improve visibility, confidence and readiness for future delivery requirements.
- Providing an integrated view of future demand, procurement pipelines, contract capacity and supply chain resilience across the AMP8 portfolio.
- Using market intelligence and industry engagement to identify emerging trends, risks, opportunities and potential delivery constraints to ensure delivery plans remain achievable, affordable and aligned to market realities.
- Shaping commercial strategies to support an integrated supply chain, influencing a category management approach to drive an efficient, sustainable and resilient programme delivery.
- Leading strategic supplier engagement and the Supply Chain Hub to strengthen collaboration, performance and long-term delivery capability.
- Driving integration across programme, engineering, commercial and operational teams to support joined-up planning and decision-making.
- Promoting innovation and continuous improvement through the development of effective commercial approaches, delivery models and supplier relationships.
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Job description
Yorkshire Water is seeking a Supply Chain Strategy & Integration Manager to lead demand intelligence, market insight and supply chain readiness within the AMP8 portfolio. You will connect programme ambition with market capability, guiding senior leaders on deliverability and commercial readiness.
Join a team delivering major capital investment, driving strategic supplier engagement, and shaping integrated commercial strategies across multiple functions.
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