Senior Commercial Manager (Sizewell C)

EDF Energy Limited; Leiston; Hybride; GBP 71 000 - 97 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

EDF Energy Limited seeks a Senior Commercial Manager for Sizewell C in Leiston. The role is hybrid, permanent full-time, reporting to a Supply Chain Lead.

You will manage commercial aspects of contracts, support procurement strategies and ensure alignment with project objectives, governance and regulatory requirements. Essential experience includes leading complex procurements, contract administration, and strong negotiation skills.

Qualifications

• Member of a recognised professional body or equivalent.
• Proven ability to manage procurement and post-procurement activities on a large project.
• Experience administering complex contracts and supplier relationships.
• Strong leadership, negotiation and communication skills.
• Strong understanding of procurement, contract performance metrics, risk, and change management.
• Experience with NEC and FIDIC forms on major programmes.

Responsabilités

• Report to Supply Chain Lead and oversee all commercial issues for assigned contracts.
• Develop procurement and contracting strategies aligned with project objectives.
• Manage procurement schedules, governance approvals and contract formation activities.
• Administer contract closure, lessons learnt and post-contract performance.
• Engage with regulators and stakeholders to ensure compliance and value.

Connaissances

Procurement management

Contract administration

Leadership

Negotiation

Risk management

Contract performance

Stakeholder management

Formation

Degree level education

Outils

CEMAR

SAP

Description du poste

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Senior Commercial Manager
Sizewell C

Location: Hybrid, Leiston, Suffolk (minimum 3 days per week onsite).
Employment type: Permanent full-time.
Salary: Circa £82,000 - £86,000 per annum -dependent on experience

Closing date: 22nd October 2026

Scope and nature of role

reports to a Supply Chain Lead and is the primary point of contact for all supply chain/commercial matters relating to a supplier/contract assigned to them.
works closely and pro-actively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels. This includes working as part of a multi-disciplinary team within a technically complex Programme.
at all times promotes the SZC Project, its values and behaviours and ensures that SZC Project requirements are met and successfully delivered.
is empowered to make decisions and undertake its Principal Responsibilities and Accountabilities (as defined below) in the context described above and in accordance with delegated levels of commitment and authority.

Principal Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Having at all times the knowledge and being responsible for the regular reporting of topics including: contract scope of work/services; schedule; prices and rates; key personnel; and incentive arrangements.
• Managing the contract commercial relationship and at all times providing support to the Project Manager to ensure effective delivery of the contract. In particular, establish effective collaborative arrangements and work in a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation to achieve ‘win-win’ equitable commercial outcomes.

Contract formation

• Contributing to procurement and contracting strategies that meet the overall SZC Project objectives.
• Managing and tracking a procurement against the overall Integrated Work Schedule (IWS) milestones to meet stakeholder and SZC Project requirements and keeping the procurement on schedule.
• Undertaking correct administration of ‘vendor assessment’ and information exchange via procurement electronic portal tools.
• Invitation to tender preparation and tender evaluation assessing technical and commercial compliance.
• Managing formation activities across technical, programme, legal and commercial disciplines.
• Support to the budget process and analysing the commercial requirements of a contract.
• support to the Commercial Lead in ensuring all internal governance approval is in place to enable timely Contract Award.

Post contract management

• Managing contracts in accordance with the contract terms, SZC governance requirements and SZC Project objectives to achieve a successful close.
• Ensuring compatibility and alignment with other SZC Project contracts.
• Administration of commercial management tools including, but not limited to, CEMAR and SAP.
• In the closeout phase the Senior Commercial Manager will have responsibility and accountability for managing the close out of each contract and identifying and recording commercial lessons learnt.

Other

• Deliver contracts in accordance with NNB governance requirements to meet NNB SZC Project and business objectives.
• Supervision of Supply Chain Managers and Supply Chain Assistants under their control.
• Internal and external stakeholder management and working within a multi-disciplinary team/teams.
• Being familiar with, promoting and maintaining compliance at all times (at procurement and post-procurement stages) with NNB’s Supply Chain policies (including compliance with nuclear safety and quality controls procedures) and SZC Project processes and procedures, particularly those relating to the Supply Chain.
• Engagement as required with the UK regulators (ONR/EA/CNS), HM Government and Ofgem.
• Promoting the role of the Intelligent Customer and ensuring that requirements and expectations are met with regard to commercial probity, value and that the supply chain is treated fairly.
• Promoting and embedding a strong nuclear safety culture, the right level of oversight, control and surveillance of supplier activities.
• Ensuring board papers and/or investment papers are produced and submitted all in accordance with SZC Project governance.
• Demonstrate collaborative working practices, promote continuous improvement, the SZC Project’s values and acting in a spirit of mutual trust and cooperation.
• Professional development of self and people within the team.

Knowledge, Skills, Qualifications and Experience

Essential

• Member of RICS/ICE/CICES/IOB or equivalent professional body.
• Proven ability of working within a complex major project/programme environment in both procurement and post-procurement phases.
• Evidence of successfully undertaking complex procurements and of administering contracts.
• Effective Management and Leadership skills, with clear knowledge of best practice contract methodologies in the UK environment.
• Honed commercial skills and demonstrable ability to make sound decisions on complex matters (considering technical and commercial topics) of high financial value.
• Good understanding of procurement, contract performance measurement, risk management and change and claim management.
• Excellent negotiating, influencing and communication skills.
• Excellent problem-solving skills.
• Experience of working in a dynamic environment with multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of standard forms of contract (NEC and FIDIC) within the power/construction industry on complex major projects/programmes.
• Possesses skills to act as deputy.

Desirable

• Educated to degree level
• Familiar with the nuclear site licence conditions and the nuclear baseline philosophy.
• Understanding of the UK regulatory framework.
• Understanding of UK and international supply chain within the nuclear sector.
• Knowledge of English law and its impact upon the contract and commercial function.

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.