Commercial Sales & Strategy Manager in Cardiff

The

Commercial Sales & Strategy Manager will be responsible for identifying commercial opportunities and delivering sales processes that result in commercial growth for the WRU across Partnerships and Hospitality.

This role will involve hands on selling activity and will support the Head of Commercial in supporting the strategic development of the pipeline.

The role will work collaboratively across the commercial department supporting both Partnership sales and Hospitality sales.

• The Person
• Proven sales and business development experience that has led to commercial growth.
• Experienced in pipeline management and prioritising opportunities.
• Previous consulting and/or commercial strategy experience is desirable, gained at an agency, professional services company or equivalent in-house department.
• Demonstrable problem-solving ability with a strong will to be able to diagnose challenging issues and present viable solutions.
• Ability to balance competing demands.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Ability to build presentations that tell a clear and coherent sales story, are easy to digest and insightful.
• Demonstrable experience of developing relationships with key stakeholders.
• Commercial acumen with experience of commercial / sponsorships rights.
• Experience of presenting and engaging with a variety of levels of stakeholders.
• Ability to influence at all levels.
• Experience of contract negotiation and contract management.
• Excellent IT skills, specifically Microsoft Excel and Power Point.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills are essential.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship management skills.
• Results orientated, with experience of working to targets focusing on revenue growth.
• Ability to communicate and work through the medium of Welsh is desirable.

The Role

Partnerships Sales

Work collaboratively with the Commercial team to

• Identify open and target categories.
• Leverage industry sources, data, desktop research and available tools to develop the sales pipeline for target categories.
• Play a proactive networking role in the local and national market to build new relationships and identify sales opportunities.
• Identify and document available inventory and new/potential inventory.
• Build and value commercial packages to take to market.
• Utilise data & insight to build compelling sales materials and narratives.
• Build and run RFP processes to drive competitive commercial processes.
• Prepare and deliver direct outreach to target prospects.
• Leverage the required systems and processes to track the sales pipeline in real time and capture all contact details for sales targets (e. g. management of a B2B database for lead generation).
• Prepare sales materials for key meetings.
• Create bespoke commercial partnership proposals.
• Play the lead role in the sales process for certain inventory, packages, and categories, whilst playing a support role on others.
• Ensure Partnerships Sales team has the required data to support sales meetings.
• Support the Partnerships Sales team through negotiation and contracting.
• Support with smooth and detailed handover of sold opportunities to the Partnerships team to enable them to deliver the contracted rights.

Hospitality Sales

• Support the Hospitality Sales team to build and maintain a healthy and vibrant sales pipeline to convert sales leads into new business to ensure the agreed budgets and targets are met.
• Spend an agreed portion of your time on direct outreach to support the Hospitality Sales team and process, particularly during peak selling periods.

Strategic Commercial Projects

• Deploy a core consulting skillset to help the team solve complex commercial problems, build trusted relationships and deliver actionable results that drive the business forward.
• Deliver structured problem solving, data analysis and modelling to enable clear and concise communication and presentation of ideas
• Drive projects from inception through to implementation.
• Clearly document and analyse projects, concepts and strategies in Microsoft Power Point, Word and Excel to enable the business to make data driven and strategy led decisions quickly and seamlessly.

Commercial Research & Insights

• In collaboration with the Partnerships team, contribute to the research and insights program ensuring the team has access to the required research and data and that it is presented in an insightful manner to enable data driven selling.
• WRU Requirements

The WRU require that individuals are proficient in IT skills, specifically Microsoft packages.

Excellent written and verbal communications are essential, along with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Ability to communicate through the medium of Welsh and a Valid UK Driver's License is desirable.

The Perks

As a permanent member of the WRU Group, you will have access to our full range of employee benefits, including:

• Salary Sacrifice Pension (5% employee contribution, matched by WRU)
• Life assurance scheme
• WRU Group Ticket Allocation (in line with ticketing policy)
• One additional paid day off (birthday leave)
• Employee assistance programme
• Team Tactics – hybrid working arrangements
• Free stadium parking and gym
• WRU Group store andtour discounts
• WRU Group partnershipoffers
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Gostyngiadau Gwestai'r Celtic Collection

Our Values

The WRU Group are committed to developing a culture whereby all employees are equally valued and respected.

Our aims, together with our vision and mission, are underpinned by our core values and beliefs which embrace: Integrity, Excellence, Success, Courage, Family & Humour.

Inclusion At The WRU

The WRU Group are committed to building diverse, high-performing and engaged teams across Welsh Rugby.

We are ambitious about providing a people first culture where everyone can belong, be heard and respected.

We are happy to talk to you about our Crys I Bawb EDI Strategy (2024-2029) and you can also read more about our commitment in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.

Diversity monitoring

We know that we deliver better services when our workforce reflects the full range of backgrounds and experiences in the society we serve.

To continue to do this we need your help in filling out a short monitoring form.

None of the information you provide will be visible as part of your application. It will only be used anonymously to monitor the inclusivity of our selection processes.

You can select 'prefer not to say’ if you would rather not answer any question.

Bydd y

Rheolwr Gwerthiannau a Strategaeth Masnachol yn gyfrifol am nodi cyfleoedd masnachol a chyflawni prosesau gwerthu sy\'n arwain at dwf masnachol i URC ar draws Partneriaethau a Lletygarwch.

Bydd y rôl hon yn gynnwys gweithgarwch gwerthu ymarferol ac yn cefnogi\'r Pennaeth Masnach i gefnogi datblygiad strategol y biblinell.

Bydd y rôl yn gweithio\'n gydweithredol ar draws yr adran fasnachol gan gefnogi gwerthiannau Partneriaeth a Lletygarwch fel ei gilydd.

• Cyflog: Cystadleuol, ynghyd â bonws
• Dyddiad Cau: Dydd Sul, 6 Medi 2026
• Y PERSON
• Profiad profedig o werthu a datblygu busnes sydd wedi arwain at dwf masnachol.
• Profiad o reoli piblinell a blaenoriaethu cyfleoedd.
• Mae profiad blaenorol o ymgynghori a/neu strategaeth fasnachol yn ddymunol, a enillwyd mewn asiantaeth, cwmni gwasanaethau proffesiynol neu adran fewnol gyfwerth.
• Arddangos gallu cryf i ddatrys problemau gydag ewyllys gref i ddiagnosio problemau heriol a chyflwyno datrysiadau posib.
• Y gallu i gydbwyso gofynion cystadleuol.
• Sgiliau dadansoddi data cryf.
• Y gallu i adeiladu cyflwyniadau sy\'n adrodd stori glir a chydlynus, sy\'n hawdd ei ddeall ac yn llawn mewnwelediad.
• Profiad amlwg o ddatblygu perthnasoedd gyda rhanddeiliaid allweddol.
• Craffter masnachol gyda phrofiad o hawliau masnachol / noddi.
• Profiad o gyflwyno ac ymgysylltu ag amrywiaeth o lefelau o randdeiliaid.
• Y gallu i ddylanwadu ar bob lefel.
• Profiad o negodi contractau a rheoli contractau.
• Sgiliau TG rhagorol, yn benodol Microsoft Excel a Power Point.
• Mae sgiliau cyfathrebu ysgrifenedig ac ar lafar rhagorol yn hanfodol.
• Sgiliau rhyngbersonol a rheoli perthnasau cryf.
• Yn canolbwyntio ar ganlyniadau, gyda phrofiad o weithio tuag at dargedau sy\'n canolbwyntio ar dyfu refeniw.
• Mae\'r gallu i gyfathrebu a gweithio trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg yn ddymunol.
• Y RÔL

Gwerthiannau Partneriaeth

Cydweithredu â\'r tîm Masnachol i

• Nodi categorïau agored a tharged.
• Defnyddio ffynonellau yn y diwydiant, data, ymchwil bwrdd gwaith a\'r offer sydd ar gael i ddatblygu\'r piblinell gwerthu ar gyfer categorïau targed.
• Chwara r rôl rwydweithio ragweithiol yn y farchnad leol a chenedlaethol i feithrin perthnasoedd newydd a nodi cyfleoedd gwerthu.
• Nodi a dogfennu rhestr eiddo sydd ar gael a rhestr eiddo newydd/posib.
• Adeiladu a phrisio pecynnau masnachol i fynd â nhw i\'r farchnad.
• Defnyddio data a mewnwelediadau i adeiladu deunyddiau gwerthu cymhellol a naratifau.
• Adeiladu a rhedeg prosesau RFP i ysgogi prosesau masnachol cystadleuol.
• Paratoi a chyflwyno allgymorth i ragolygon targed.
• Defnyddio\'r systemau a phrosesau angenrheidiol i olrhain y piblinell gwerthu mewn amser real a chofnodi\'r holl fanylion cyswllt ar gyfer targedau gwerthu.
• Paratoi deunyddiau gwerthu ar gyfer cyfarfodydd allweddol.
• Creu cynigion partneriaeth fasnachol personol.
• Chwarae\'r rôl arweiniol yn y broses gwerthu ar gyfer rhestr eiddo, pecynnau a chategorïau penodol, a chwarae rôl gefnogol ar eraill.
• Sicrhau bod gan y tîm Gwerthiannau Partneriaeth y data angenrheidiol i gefnogi cyfarfodydd gwerthu.
• Cefnogi\'r tîm Gwerthiannau Partneriaeth drwy negodi a chontractio.
• Cefnogi gyda throsglwyddiad llyfn a manwl o gyfleoedd a werthwyd i\'r tîm Partneriaethau er mwyn iddynt allu cyflawni\'r hawliau a gontractiwwyd.

Gwerthiannau Lletygarwch

• Cefnogi\'r tîm Gwerthiannau Lletygarwch i adeiladu a chynnal piblinell gwerthu iach a bywiog i drosi cyfleoedd gwerthu i fusnes newydd i sicrhau bod y cyllidebau a thargedau y cytunwyd arnynt yn cael eu bodloni.
• Treulio cyfran gytunedig o\'ch amser ar allgymorth uniongyrchol i gefnogi\'r tîm a phroses Gwerthiannau Lletygarwch, yn enwedig yn ystod cyfnodau gwerthu prysur.

Prosiectau Masnachol Strategol

• Defnyddio set sgiliau ymgynghori craidd i helpu\'r tîm i ddatrys problemau masnachol cymhleth, meithrin perthnasoedd dibynadwy a chyflawni canlyniadau ymarferol sy\'n gyrru\'r busnes ymlaen.
• Cyflwyno datrys problemau strwythuredig, dadansoddi data a modelu i alluogi cyfathrebu a chyflwyno syniadau clir a chryno
• Gyrru prosiectau o\'r cychwyn cyntaf hyd at weithrediad.
• Dogfennu a dadansoddi prosiectau, cysyniadau a strategaethau yn glir yn Microsoft Power Point, Word ac Excel er mwyn galluogi\'r busnes i wneud penderfyniadau sy\'n seiliedig ar ddata ac wedi\'u harwain gan strategaeth yn gyflym ac yn did-dor.

Ymchwil a Mewnwelediadau Masnachol

• Mewn cydweithrediad â\'r tîm Partneriaethau, cyfrannu at y rhaglen ymchwil a mewnwelediadau gan sicrhau bod gan y tîm fynediad at yr ymchwil a\'r data angenrheidiol a\'u bod yn cael eu cyflwyno mewn ffordd llawn mewnwelediad i alluogi gwerthu wedi\'i yrru gan ddata.
• GOFYNION URC

Mae URC yn mynnu bod gan unigolion sgiliau TG, yn benodol pecynnau Microsoft.

Mae sgiliau cyfathrebu ysgrifenedig a llafar rhagorol yn hanfodol, ynghyd â\'r gallu i feithrin perthnasoedd cryf gyda rhanddeiliaid mewnol ac allanol.

Mae\'r gallu i gyfathrebu trwy gyfrwng y Gymraeg a Thrwydded Yrru Ddilys y DU yn ddymunol. Mae\'r rôl hon yn amodol ar wiriad DBS sylfaenol/manwl.

Y MANTEISION

Fel aelod parhaol o Grŵp URC, bydd gennych fynediad at ein hystod lawn o fuddion cyflogeion, gan gynnwys:

• Pensiwn Aberth Cyflog (cyfraniad cyflogai o 5%, cyfraniad cyfatebol gan URC)
• Cynllun yswiriant bywyd
• WRU Group Ticket Allocation (in line with ticketing policy)
• One additional paid day off (birthday leave)
• Employee assistance programme
• Team Tactics – hybrid working arrangements
• Free stadium parking and gym
• WRU Group store andtour discounts
• WRU Group partnershipoffers
• Eye Care Voucher Scheme
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Gostyngiadau Gwestai\'r Celtic Collection
• Ein Gwerthoedd

The WRU Group are committed to developing a culture whereby all employees are equally valued and respected.

Our aims, together with our vision and mission, are underpinned by our core values and beliefs which embrace: Integrity, Excellence, Success, Courage, Family & Humour.

Inclusion At The WRU

The WRU Group are committed to building diverse, high-performing and engaged teams across Welsh Rugby.

We are ambitious about providing a people first culture where everyone can belong, be heard and respected.

We are happy to talk to you about our Crys I Bawb EDI Strategy (2024-2029) and you can also read more about our commitment in our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Policy.

Diversity monitoring

We know that we deliver better services when our workforce reflects the full range of backgrounds and experiences in the society we serve.

To continue to do this we need your help in filling out a short monitoring form.

None of the information you provide will be visible as part of your application. It will only be used anonymously to monitor the inclusivity of our selection processes.

You can select 'prefer not to say’ if you would rather not answer any question.

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