Value for Money Manager

Sizewell C Company; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading salaries

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Flexible benefits

Job summary

Sizewell C Company seeks a Value for Money Manager embedded within the Civil Works Alliance to secure TOC development, risk ownership and PAA obligation delivery with robust VfM evidence. The role focuses on safeguarding integrated works schedule baselines and cost performance, applying auditable processes and continuous improvement.

You will lead governance, evidence standards and escalation of weak VfM positions, working closely with Delivery Directors to ensure traceability across cost,

Qualifications

• Degree in a relevant discipline such as Engineering, Commercial Management, Construction Management, Risk Management, Economics or Programme Management.
• Experience in nuclear, major infrastructure, regulated utilities or similarly regulated sectors.
• Proven track record in governance, assurance and TOC delivery across large delivery packages.

Responsibilities

• Embed and institutionalise the CWA core proposition for TOC development, risk ownership, PAA obligation delivery and VfM evidence.
• Own the system, process, method, evidence standard and continuous improvement framework within the CWA for PAA, RAB and VfM.
• Establish an auditable process for challenge, evidence sufficiency and delivery accountability.
• Drive continual improvement in TOC maturity, traceability and defensibility of development and approval processes.
• Escalate weak VfM positions and evidence gaps that threaten NTS/NTP acceptance or RAB defensibility.
• Ensure residual risk is formally accepted by Delivery Directors at each gate.
• Collaborate with Alliance Director, TOC Director, Bid Director and Delivery Directors to ensure clear accountability.

Skills

TOC development

RAB principles

Governance & assurance

Cost, schedule integration

Evidence-led management

Stakeholder influence

Risk & opportunity quantification

Communication & reporting

Delivery leadership

Education

Engineering/Commercial management degree

Job description

Value for Money Manager Opportunity with the Civil Works Alliance (CWA), Supporting Sizewell C

As part of the CWA (Civil Works Alliance), you will support the building of Sizewell C. Sizewell C will be a 3.2-gigawatt power station generating low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes and will play a key role in our energy future, supplying reliable, clean electricity for at least 60 years.This role will be within theCWA Wide Section.

What will you do?

Value for Money Manager

The CWA is seeking an experienced Value for Money Manager to join as an embedded specialist within the Civil Works Alliance. This is a central control role designed to institutionalise the Alliance's core proposition for Target Outturn Cost (TOC) development, risk and opportunity ownership, Project Alliance Agreement (PAA) obligation delivery, and RAB-compliant Value for Money (VfM) evidence. The successful candidate will ensure the CWA protects the Sizewell C Integrated Works Schedule baseline cost and programme performance through a disciplined, auditable and continuously improving operating system.

Embed and institutionalise the CWA core proposition, ensuring TOC development and gate-by-gate progress of risk ownership, PAA obligation delivery and RAB-compliant VfM evidence are readily available and demonstrable.

Own the system, process, method, evidence standard and continuous improvement framework within the CWA for PAA, RAB, VfM, risk and opportunity integration.

Establish a disciplined and auditable process that enables consistent challenge, evidence sufficiency and delivery accountability.

Drive continual improvement in the maturity, traceability and defensibility of TOC development and approval processes.

Challenge TOC assumptions and require evidence, maturity, named ownership and traceability for material assumptions.

Ensure that no material risk enters the TOC unless it is traceable to cost, schedule, owner, treatment and supporting evidence.

Escalate weak VfM positions and evidence gaps that threaten NTS/NTP acceptance or RAB defensibility.

Recommend that gate progression is held where evidence is insufficient, double‑counted, weakly owned or not delivery‑ready.

Ensure that residual risk is formally accepted by Delivery Directors at each relevant gate.

Work closely with the CWA Alliance Director, TOC Director, Bid Director, TOC Team and Delivery Directors to ensure clear accountability.

Support Delivery Directors in taking ownership of delivery assumptions, risk acceptance, logistics readiness and workface readiness.

Promote the integrated ownership of planning, logistics and industrialisation across CWP, SD and CWA.

Ensure that value is protected after NTP through leakage identification, reporting and action tracking.

Implement post‑NTP controls to monitor VfM leakage, risk crystallisation, opportunity realisation and TOC drift.

Establish learning loops, root cause analysis and improvement actions to enhance subsequent TOC development and delivery performance.

Define and maintain evidence standards required to pass LOD‑0, LOD‑1, LOD‑2 and LOD‑3 scrutiny.

Support delivery teams in evidencing workface readiness, methodology, constraints, logistics demand, risk treatment and PAA/RAB/VfM compliance.

Support the progressive assurance model by strengthening the quality of CWA self‑evidence at LOD‑0

What are we looking for?

• Degree qualification in a relevant discipline such as Engineering, Commercial Management, Construction Management, Risk Management, Economics or Programme Management
• Significant experience in nuclear, major infrastructure, regulated utilities, transport or other highly regulated sectors
• Experience in major commercial programme, risk, assurance, delivery or TOC leadership roles gained across alliance networks, regulated infrastructure operators, major capital programmes or specialist commercial/risk consultancies
• Senior delivery leadership experience in high‑value, high‑complexity infrastructure programmes with proven influencing skills, including the ability to challenge senior leaders and Delivery Directors constructively with evidence
• Proven track record of implementing or strengthening governance, evidence and assurance disciplines across live delivery packages
• Experience in risk and opportunity quantification and in establishing traceability between risks, assumptions and programme outcomes
• Strong understanding of TOC development, target cost processes, PAA compliance, RAB principles and Value for Money requirements
• Ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, opportunity and commercial evidence into a single decision‑making framework
• Ability to establish and operate auditable, evidence‑led governance and assurance processes in complex programme environments
• Strong analytical capability in relation to delivery readiness, evidence sufficiency, post‑NTP value protection and performance assurance
• Demonstrated capability in risk and opportunity integration, including traceability to cost, schedule, ownership and treatment
• Strong ability to challenge assumptions, detect weak evidence, identify double counting and elevate material concerns appropriately
• Excellent communication, facilitation and reporting skills with strong commercial judgementCommitted to Best-for-Project outcomes and ability to translate compliance and governance requirements into practical embedded delivery controls
• Experience in alliance contracting, target outturn cost (TOC) environments or comparable collaborative delivery models (desirable)
• Working experience in regulated infrastructure environments with RAB, economic regulation or consumer‑defensibility considerations (desirable)
• Familiarity with LOD-based assurance and progressive evidence models (desirable)
• Experience supporting NTS/NTP or equivalent gate approval processes (desirable)
• Experience of post-approval delivery control, leakage tracking and value protection frameworks (desirable)

What we will offer you?

The CWA is a single delivery organisation made of up of the client (Sizewell C) and three parent companies - Balfour Beatty, Bouygues and Laing O'Rourke - which offer industry leading packages including market leading salaries, generous annual leave entitlements, pension scheme and other flexible benefits.

About Us

The CWA celebrates the creativity and innovation that comes from a diverse workforce, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds — especially those from under‑represented communities. Our project is built on five core values: Humility, Positivity, Respect, Solidarity, and Clarity.
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