Commercial Manager (Sizewell C)

Location: Bristol, London or Manchester on a hybrid basis

Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Closing Date: Thursday 4th June 2026

What’s in it for you

• Starting salary from £90,000 (depending on experience)
• Performance bonus: 10% annual
• Car allowance: £6,900
• Holiday: 28 days + bank holiday
• Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
• Flexible benefits & hybrid working option

What to expect

• A robust career path that will challenge and fulfil your ambition with clear progression and development opportunities
• A unique opportunity to shape a major infrastructure project with national impact
• Hybrid working with flexibility to succeed as an individual
• A market leading package with a competitive salary, bonus and benefits
• A supportive and collaborative team environment
• A learning environment with training and personal development supplemented by further training and qualifications

Your Impact

As a Commercial Lead, you’ll take ownership of some of the most significant and complex commercial packages on the project, covering civil and nuclear construction works, major equipment, and enabling contracts. You’ll lead procurement, negotiation, and post-award commercial management, working with key suppliers, regulators, and Tier 1 contractors. You will hold a key leadership role, shaping strategy, mentoring teams, and ensuring delivery aligns with project goals, contract requirements, and nuclear safety standards to deliver on the on-time, on-budget vision.

Typical responsibilities

• Procurement
  • Lead highly complex procurement activities
  • Manage single-source / competitive tendering and contract negotiation, leading to contract award
  • Ensure value for money, transparency, and compliance
• Post-Award Contract Management
  • Drive supplier performance and governance
  • Mitigate risks and resolve commercial issues
  • Proactive dispute management role focusing on dispute avoidance
  • Provide strategic oversight across your portfolio
• Leadership
  • Build and lead high-performing teams
  • Support and be a leader for team wellbeing
  • Act as a key interface with regulators, external stakeholders and all delivery partners
  • Embed collaboration and best practice across the supply chain and across the project
  • Be an ambassador for project safety and people culture, and set an example for the project

Experience and Qualifications

• Senior-level experience in commercial or supply chain roles on major complex infrastructure, energy and technology projects
• Expertise in procurement and post-contract management
• Good understanding of dispute avoidance and effective management
• Strong knowledge of NEC and/or FIDIC contracts
• Chartered status (RICS, ICE, CICES, IOB, CIPS or equivalent)
• Exceptional stakeholder management and negotiation skills

Qualifications

• Ideally degree-qualified or equivalent
• Preferably experience in nuclear or regulated industries
• Understanding of the UK nuclear regulatory environment and supply chain landscape
• Familiarity with safety case and licence conditions in regulated industries

Behavioural Competences

• Humility: Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences. Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.
• Positivity: Positively challenge poor quality and performance. Identify solutions at the lowest possible level. Encourage others to bring new ideas forward.
• Respect: Value the rules and environment in which we operate. Give and receive feedback with respect. Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
• Clarity: Communicate clearly and consistently. Promote collaboration and team alignment. Clearer and faster decision making. Drive simplification at all levels.

If this sounds like the next step in your career, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today. 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.