Commercial Manager (Sizewell C)

EDF Energy Limited; Ipswich; Hybrid; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

EDF Energy Limited, in partnership with Morson, seeks a Commercial Manager for Sizewell C based in Ipswich. This contract role runs to year-end with potential extension and falls inside IR35.

You will oversee pre- and post-contract commercial issues, manage the contract team, support procurement, and ensure governance alignment with SZC objectives.

Ideal candidates will have strong contract management, negotiation, and knowledge of NEC/FIDIC forms, plus UK regulatory familiarity.

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level (preferable).
• Progress towards professional body membership (RICS/CICES/IOB) preferred.
• Strong contract management and commercial skills essential.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day management of the contract team and commercial processes.
• Support procurement during pre-award and manage post-award contracts.
• Deliver contract final accounts and ensure governance alignment with SZC objectives.
• Maintain commercial files and liaison with Legal on contract issues.

Skills

Contract management

Commercial awareness

Negotiation

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Procurement support

Education

Relevant degree preferred

Tools

NEC

FIDIC

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Commercial Manager (Sizewell C) Morson Sizewell C

We are seeking a Commercial Manager for our client based in Ipswich. This is a contract role to run to the end of the year but will be extended. This role falls inside IR35. Based in Ipswich office.

Role:

The Commercial Manager is commercially responsible, on any contract assigned to them, for all pre and post contract commercial issues relating to a contract on the SZC project.

The Commercial Manager is an important role within the SZC Supply Chain Group with accountability to the Senior Commercial Manager for the successful commercial administration of one or more SZC contracts. As such the Commercial Manager is empowered to make decisions around the Principle Accountability areas, under the overall guidance of the Senior Commercial Manager and in accordance with delegated levels of authority.

The Commercial Manager will be the primary point of commercial contact on the contract/s assigned to them and will be required to work closely and pro-actively with the other stakeholders at all levels and across all the teams within Nuclear New Build to ensure that the requirements of the individual contracts and their impact upon the overall SZC Project are successfully delivered.

The Commercial Manager is responsible and accountable for:

• The day to day management of Supply Chain Assistants under their control.
• Providing support to the procurement process during the Procurement phase (pre-award).
• Providing commercial management of contracts during the execution phase (post-award).
• Providing commercial management for the delivery of contract final account agreements (close out).
• Responsible for the delivery of the contract in accordance with SZC governance requirements to meet SZC Project and business objectives.
• Professional development of self and people within the team.

Procurement Phase:

Providing support to the procurement process and Senior Commercial Manager/Supply Chain Lead during the contract creation phase (pre-award) including assessing the scope, duration and expected value of each of the Contracts against the budget and defining the commercial requirements of a contract. Part of this will include participating in the Commercial Review of the technical and commercial requirements, ensuring that the specifications and commercial terms of the contract including Scope of Works, Required Services, Planning, Safety and Quality Standards etc. are aligned across the Project and ensuring that the commercial terms will allow effective contract administration.

• Provide stakeholder management across the project.
• Managing Supplier / Contractor commercial relationships and engagement
• Implementing progress and dashboard reporting, preparation of contract specific progress reports and reporting
• Maintaining procurement and contract commercial files and records
• Interfacing with Legal team on conditions of contract issues and non-disclosure agreements

Ensure that the strategy for collaborative working is followed in the procurement phase. Development of ITT/RFQ packages including technical, commercial, legal documentation. Ensure lessons learnt from HPC are captured and implemented in SZC procurement strategy.

Qualifications

Progressing to full membership of the RICS / CICES / IOB is preferable.

• Educated to relevant degree level is preferable.
• Able to demonstrate a noteworthy track record of administering successful contracts.
• Effective commercial / contract management skills are essential, with clear knowledge of best practice contract methodologies.
• Good commercial skills and ability to make sound decisions on matters of financial value.
• Understanding of contract performance measurement, risk management and change and claim management.
• Good negotiating, influencing and communication skills to command professional respect at all levels.
• Familiarity with most common Forms of Contract (NEC & FIDIC) within the power construction industry and major projects and programme environment with particular knowledge of UK Law and its impact upon the contract and commercial function is essential.

Experience

• Familiar with the nuclear site licence conditions and the nuclear baseline philosophy.
• Good understanding of the UK regulatory framework.

For this role you must have evidence of right to work in the UK. As a project, we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

Why Join Us?

For more than 60 years, nuclear power stations in the UK have been quietly keeping Britain fuelled with massive amounts of home-grown energy.

Our teams up and down the country are proudly continuing to serve the nation – but they also have an eye on the future.

EDF is leading the UK's nuclear renaissance with the construction of a new nuclear power station at Hinkley Point C and plans for a new power station at Sizewell C in Suffolk.

Nuclear power is the most reliable, low-carbon energy source currently available to the UK. EDF is playing a key role in the development of nuclear sites, while Hinkley Point C will provide low-carbon electricity to meet 7% of the UK demand. The project is already making a positive impact on the local and national economy as well as boosting skills and education.

We’re not just building new nuclear power stations. We’re developing careers, upskilling generations and creating thousands of employment and apprenticeship opportunities across a variety of skills areas.

It takes a special kind of person to work in the nuclear energy industry and although we have thousands of them there’s always a need for more.

Our industry has a mind-boggling range of opportunities and more jobs, and in more places, than you might think. But it’s also an industry which is changing.

We’re a responsible business and proud to be Britain’s biggest generator of zero carbon electricity. With size, age and experience, we believe we can do even more.