Commercial Assistant Project Manager (2 year FTC)

Great British Nuclear; Greater London, Warrington; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Great British Energy - Nuclear is hiring a Commercial Assistant Project Manager on a 2-year fixed-term contract in the UK. The role supports procurement activity, governance and reporting, working with the Commercial Project Manager and team to maintain plans, track actions and ensure governance requirements are met.

The role can be based in London or Warrington, with regular travel to either location. You will coordinate cross-functional inputs, maintain risk and issue logs, and produce regular

Qualifications

• Experience in project coordination or PMO in a fast-paced environment.
• Understanding of governance, reporting cycles, action tracking, risk administration.
• Experience maintaining project plans, schedules, logs and trackers.
• Experience supporting approvals, assurance and governance processes.
• Ability to build productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong communication and coordination skills.
• Experience providing secretariat or meeting support.
• Excellent organisational skills with multi-project management.
• Nuclear sector experience is desirable.
• Experience with high-value or complex procurements would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support the development, maintenance and administration of procurement plans, tracking activity against need-by dates, milestones and critical path requirements.
• Provide project administration and governance support, including secretariat duties for boards, preparing agendas and minutes, logging actions and decisions.
• Coordinate inputs from cross-functional teams to manage procurement dependencies and delivery constraints.
• Support identification, tracking and reporting of commercial and procurement risks, updating risk registers.
• Lead on the collation and production of regular project and procurement reporting, capturing progress, decisions and milestones.
• Support assurance and approvals activity, coordinating evidence and governance submissions.
• Coordinate workshop schedules, meeting logistics and stakeholder inputs, ensuring follow-up actions.
• Maintain action, decision and dependency logs for governance and audit readiness.

Skills

PMO support

Governance

Stakeholder management

Communication

Secretariat

Education

Degree in relevant subject

Job description

Originally named, Great British Nuclear, Great British Energy - Nuclear is an arm's length body of the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, dedicated to supporting the development and deployment of new nuclear technologies in Great Britain. We play a crucial role in advancing nuclear new build, ensuring the UK's energy security and achieving net-zero carbon emissions. Great British Energy - Nuclear focuses on fostering innovation, facilitating investment, and coordinating efforts across the nuclear industry to build a resilient and sustainable energy future.

The Commercial Assistant Project Manager provides project coordination, governance and administrative support to enable the effective delivery of major projects within Commercial. The role works closely with the Commercial Project Manager, Commercial Team and wider project teams to maintain plans, track actions and decisions, coordinate reporting and support key governance and assurance activities. The role will help ensure procurement activity is well organised, accurately reported and aligned to project milestones, dependencies and governance requirements.

Please note, this is a 2 year Fixed Term Contract.

This role can be based in either our London or Warrington office. Regular travel to one of these locations will be required.

Accountabilities & Responsibilities:

• Support the development, maintenance and administration of procurement plans, working with the Commercial Project Manager and Commercial Team to track procurement activity against need-by dates, delivery milestones and critical path requirements.
• Provide project administration and governance support, including secretariat support for key boards, preparing agendas and papers, recording actions and decisions, and maintaining clear governance documentation.
• Coordinate inputs from cross-functional teams to support the management of procurement dependencies, resource commitments and delivery constraints, helping to ensure impacts on wider project milestones are understood and escalated where required.
• Support the identification, tracking and reporting of commercial and procurement risks, including maintaining updates to risk registers and coordinating follow-up actions with relevant owners.
• Lead on the collation and production of regular project and procurement reporting, drawing together progress updates, key decisions, dependencies, risks, issues and upcoming milestones to support effective governance and decision-making.
• Support assurance and approvals activity, including coordinating evidence, maintaining document trackers and assisting with business cases, gateway reviews and related governance submissions.
• Coordinate workshop schedules, meeting logistics and stakeholder inputs, ensuring materials are prepared, actions are captured and follow-up activity is tracked through to completion.
• Maintain action, decision and dependency logs, ensuring information is accurate, up to date and available to support project reporting, governance and audit readiness.

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required:

• Experience of providing project coordination, administration or PMO support within a fast-paced project or programme environment.
• Good understanding of project governance, reporting cycles, action tracking, decision management and risk administration.
• Experience of supporting the development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, logs and trackers, including identifying dependencies and following up on actions.
• Experience of supporting projects through approvals, assurance and governance processes, including coordinating materials and maintaining evidence or document trackers.
• The ability to establish and develop productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, bringing people together to benefit the project.
• Strong communication and coordination skills, with the ability to work with internal and external stakeholders to gather inputs, follow up actions and support timely decision-making.
• Experience of providing secretariat or meeting support, including preparing agendas, taking minutes, recording actions and maintaining decision logs.
• Exceptional organisational skills, with keen attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in/ prior knowledge of the nuclear sector is desirable.
• Experience of supporting high value or complex procurements would be advantageous but not essential, particularly through planning, reporting, scheduling, workshop coordination and risk or decision tracking.

Qualifications

Degree level qualification preferably in a relevant subject, or equivalent level of knowledge & experience

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