Assistant Category Manager - IT

Location: London, Suffolk, Contract: Permanent, full-time.

Closing Date: Friday 15th May 2026

What's in It for You:

• Salary: £40,000 - £47,000 (depending on experience)
• Bonus: 5% annual incentive
• Pension: Up to 7.5% employee / 15% employer contribution
• Leave: 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Hybrid Working: Typically, 2-3 days in the office per week, with flexibility based on business needs

Your Impact

You'll play a key role in delivering end-to-end procurement activities (source to contract) across SZC's Corporate Functions by supporting the Category Manager in meeting the category's objectives. You'll support the development and execution of procurement strategies, manage stakeholder relationships, and ensure compliance with governance frameworks—all while driving continuous improvement and best practice. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a high-impact project from the ground up, helping to build a fair, transparent, and commercially robust procurement environment, whilst continuing your growth within Procurement.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Category Manager with the following:
• Lead and support procurement processes from strategy to contract award.
• Incorporating procurement best practice approaches in all activities undertaken, such as cost saving initiatives, continuous improvement, key performance metrics, SLAs, KPIs and MI.
• Manage commercial aspects of contracts during execution.
• Build trusted relationships with internal stakeholders to support pipeline development.
• Ensure compliance with SZC's procurement policies and governance.
• Collaborate with legal teams on contract terms and NDAs.
• Develop RFP/RFQ packages and manage supplier engagement.
• Maintain accurate procurement records and reporting dashboards.
• Drive lessons learned and continuous improvement across procurement activities.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in supporting/leading IT Procurement categories.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Experience in corporate functions procurement and contract negotiation.
• Solid understanding of commercial law and contractual terms.
• Proven ability to manage high-value, multi-disciplinary contracts.
• Member or student member of CIPS (preferred).
• Experience working in cross-functional teams and advising senior management.

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.
• Solidarity: One team, working closely together and helping each other. Empowered teams always looking forward. Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.
• 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.

When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group. At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work. It is a requirement that those who join us have the right to work in the UK. Whilst sponsorship may be a possibility that we can explore, we are fully committed to local recruitment where possible, and those already holding the right to work in the UK. 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.