Senior Commercial Manager - Works

EDF Energy; Cardiff; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading energy company in the UK, is seeking a Senior Commercial Manager to oversee contract management in Wales. This position entails ensuring the procurement process's success and leading post-award commercial management. The ideal candidate will possess a degree in quantity surveying or commercial management, strong commercial acumen, and experience in risk management. The role offers a salary from £75,000 with hybrid working options and benefits including bonuses and a pension scheme.

Benefits

Annual bonus

Market-leading pension scheme

Customisable benefits like gym membership

Qualifications

• Proven expertise in commercial and contract management with a track record of success.
• Solid understanding of contract performance and risk management in power construction.
• Good analytical skills with experience in cost analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead commercial management of contracts post award.
• Support procurement process during contract creation and negotiations.
• Drive progress and cost management through detailed reporting.

Skills

Commercial acumen

Contract management

Risk management

Excel proficiency

Negotiation

Education

Degree in quantity surveying/commercial management

Job description

About the Role

Ready to lead engineering excellence at one of Europe's largest infrastructure projects? Want to shape the future of nuclear energy and help Britain achieve net zero? At EDF, Success is Personal - and with us, your career journey is yours to shape.

The Opportunity

As Senior Commercial Manager, you'll take ownership of the commercial success of each contract assigned to you. From the very start, you'll play a key role in supporting the procurement process during contract creation, ensuring smooth pre‑award activities that lead to successful contract awards.

Once contracts move into execution, you'll be the commercial lead driving performance, managing risks, and steering contracts to successful completion. Your focus will be on maximising operational and financial outcomes while safeguarding against commercial risks, all to support the safe and cost‑effective delivery of the NNB programme and wider business objectives.

You’ll join us on a salary from £75,000 per annum. This is a hybrid role based at #SatelliteDeliveryCentre, with flexibility to work from home—though you’ll be expected in the office at least three days a week.

You'll collaborate with procurement, delivery and project teams, monitor contract performance using KPIs, and resolve challenges pragmatically to keep the programme moving forward.

Who You Are

We’re looking for a Senior Commercial Manager who is decisive, commercially astute and delivery focused. Do you offer

• Proven expertise in commercial and contract management, with a track record of successful outcomes.
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to make sound decisions on matters of significant financial value.
• Solid understanding of contract performance, risk management, change/claim processes, and common Forms of Contract in the power construction industry.
• Keen eye for detail, with experience using Excel and commercial management systems to analyse costs, forecasts, and contractors’ submissions.
• Ability to professionally challenge progress metrics and contractors’ programmes while maintaining strong relationships and collaborating with delivery teams to achieve best value.
• Degree qualified in quantity surveying/commercial management (or similar) and chartered or working towards chartership (RICS or equivalent).
• To be appointed to this role, you will need to meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which will, ordinarily, require you to have been a resident of the UK for at least three of the past five years.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Supporting the procurement process during contract creation, including defining requirements, reviewing scope and value, and contributing to ITT preparation, evaluation and negotiation.
• Ensuring technical and commercial alignment of specifications with contract terms, and engaging with key stakeholders across procurement, delivery, finance and legal functions.
• Leading the commercial management of contracts post award, administering scope, schedules, pricing, payments, variations, disputes, claims and supplier relationships in line with NNB procedures.
• Driving progress and cost management through reporting, reviews and risk mitigation, while maintaining accurate commercial files and correspondence.
• Leading contract closure, including commercial completion, performance assessment and capturing lessons learnt for continuous improvement.

Pay, Benefits and Culture

Alongside a salary from £75,000, potential for an annual bonus, and a market‑leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.

At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that is unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it's your journey, powered by us.

Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.

Closing date for applications

28th December

Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.