Senior Commercial Manager (Client)

HPC Jobs Service; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the nuclear energy sector is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager in Bristol. In this pivotal role, you will oversee Commercial Assurance and Cost Verification strategies, ensuring their effectiveness across the Hinkley Point C Project. The position offers a competitive salary alongside a comprehensive benefits package, promoting a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Market-leading pension scheme

Enhanced parental leave

Health insurance

Electric vehicle leasing

Gym membership

Season ticket loans

Qualifications

• Strong background in commercial management, ideally with NEC or FIDIC contracts.
• Proven track record in delivering assurance activities.
• Ability to distill complex information into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of Commercial Assurance and Cost Verification strategies.
• Manage internal and external resources to deliver assurance activities.
• Provide guidance to suppliers and commercial managers throughout the contract lifecycle.

Skills

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication

Commercial Management

Cost Verification

Risk Management

Education

Degree in Commercial Management or a related field

MRICS, MICES, or MCIPS accreditation

Job description

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Senior Commercial Manager (Client)

Aztec West, Bristol, Hybrid, Minimum of 2 days a week in office, with occasional travel to other offices/sites when required.

Are you a driven Commercial Manager seeking the next exciting step in your career? Do you bring expertise in commercial procedures and financial activities, paired with exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement abilities? If you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where each day brings fresh challenges and opportunities to excel.

Opportunity...

As a Senior Commercial Manager within our Supply Chain Client team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the effectiveness of our Commercial Assurance and Cost Verification Strategies. You'll be at the forefront of delivering key assurance activities and driving continuous improvement across the Hinkley Point C (HPC) Project.

Working alongside the Senior Commercial Manager (Process and Governance), you'll help shape and manage clear, aligned processes and governance frameworks. Your work will ensure that our commercial procedures are robust, accessible, and support the success of the wider Supply Chain Directorate.

Pay, benefits and culture...

Alongside a salary of Circa £80,000 per annum, depending on experience, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing...

You'll lead the delivery of Commercial Assurance and Cost Verification strategies across the HPC Project, ensuring their ongoing effectiveness and identifying opportunities for improvement. Your role will involve managing internal and external resources, including consultants, to deliver assurance activities aligned with our procedures.

You'll oversee the analysis of reports and data, sharing insights and lessons learned to drive action and improvement. Your work will help identify trends across programmes and ensure that corrective actions are implemented and monitored through to completion.

In addition, you'll provide guidance to suppliers and commercial managers throughout the contract lifecycle, ensuring clarity and compliance. You may also support the development and communication of directorate processes, working closely with the Senior Commercial Manager (Process and Governance).

Who you are...

You'll bring a strong background in commercial management, ideally with experience in NEC or FIDIC contracts within complex infrastructure or energy projects. You may hold a relevant accreditation such as MRICS, MICES, or MCIPS, and have a degree in Commercial Management or a related field.

A proven track record in delivering assurance activities, with a structured and diligent approach to reviewing work and identifying issues. Your understanding of cost verification, contract performance, risk and change management, and regulatory frameworks equips you to make sound commercial decisions.

You're a confident communicator and collaborator, able to distil complex information into actionable insights. Your ability to influence and guide stakeholders, including senior leaders, ensures that commercial practices are understood and embedded across the organisation.

If you're ready to bring your expertise to a high-impact role as a Senior Commercial Manager, we'd love to hear from you.

Additionally, you must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which generally requires you to have been a UK resident for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

#HinkleyPointCJobs#LI-Hybrid #DestinationNuclear #EDFNuclearJobs

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.

The HPC Jobs Service supports local people into exciting, long-term careers across our Project.

Senior Commercial Manager (Client)

Aztec West, Bristol, Hybrid, Minimum of 2 days a week in office, with occasional travel to other offices/sites when required.

Are you a driven Commercial Manager seeking the next exciting step in your career? Do you bring expertise in commercial procedures and financial activities, paired with exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement abilities? If you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where each day brings fresh challenges and opportunities to excel.

Opportunity...

As a Senior Commercial Manager within our Supply Chain Client team, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring the effectiveness of our Commercial Assurance and Cost Verification Strategies. You'll be at the forefront of delivering key assurance activities and driving continuous improvement across the Hinkley Point C (HPC) Project.

Working alongside the Senior Commercial Manager (Process and Governance), you'll help shape and manage clear, aligned processes and governance frameworks. Your work will ensure that our commercial procedures are robust, accessible, and support the success of the wider Supply Chain Directorate.

Pay, benefits and culture...

Alongside a salary of Circa £80,000 per annum, depending on experience, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing...

You'll lead the delivery of Commercial Assurance and Cost Verification strategies across the HPC Project, ensuring their ongoing effectiveness and identifying opportunities for improvement. Your role will involve managing internal and external resources, including consultants, to deliver assurance activities aligned with our procedures.

You'll oversee the analysis of reports and data, sharing insights and lessons learned to drive action and improvement. Your work will help identify trends across programmes and ensure that corrective actions are implemented and monitored through to completion.

In addition, you'll provide guidance to suppliers and commercial managers throughout the contract lifecycle, ensuring clarity and compliance. You may also support the development and communication of directorate processes, working closely with the Senior Commercial Manager (Process and Governance).

Who you are...

You'll bring a strong background in commercial management, ideally with experience in NEC or FIDIC contracts within complex infrastructure or energy projects. You may hold a relevant accreditation such as MRICS, MICES, or MCIPS, and have a degree in Commercial Management or a related field.

A proven track record in delivering assurance activities, with a structured and diligent approach to reviewing work and identifying issues. Your understanding of cost verification, contract performance, risk and change management, and regulatory frameworks equips you to make sound commercial decisions.

You're a confident communicator and collaborator, able to distil complex information into actionable insights. Your ability to influence and guide stakeholders, including senior leaders, ensures that commercial practices are understood and embedded across the organisation.

If you're ready to bring your expertise to a high-impact role as a Senior Commercial Manager, we'd love to hear from you.

Additionally, you must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which generally requires you to have been a UK resident for at least 3 of the last 5 years.

#HinkleyPointCJobs#LI-Hybrid #DestinationNuclear #EDFNuclearJobs

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.