Commercial Manager

HPC Jobs Service; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 80,000

Job description

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Commercial Manager

Location: Aztec West, Bristol - with flexibility of working from home, minimum 3 days a week in the office.

Are you a strategic and commercially driven expert ready to advance your career? Do you have a proven track record in contract management, with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders? Are you someone who thrives in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to excel? If so, come and join EDF as a Commercial Manager!

The Opportunity

As a Commercial Manager, you'll collaborate with a small team of Commercial Managers to provide essential commercial support for managing the Responsible Designer (RD) contract on HPC. Serving as primary commercial contact for the HPC Project and Engineering community, you'll oversee commercial RD matters while ensuring effective contract management.

You'll take ownership of the commercial aspects for specific scope areas within the RD contract and support the Commercial Assistant in completing key team activities.

Pay, benefits and culture

Alongside a competitive salary and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include a range of benefits, from the big and formal to the small and personal.

We're talking about everything from enhanced parental leave to electric vehicle leasing, health insurance to product discounts, critical illness insurance to technology vouchers, gym membership to season ticket loans.

At EDF UK, we embrace flexibility while recognising that everyone's working needs are different. Whether you're in our office spaces, on site, or working remotely, we promote an environment that supports collaboration, connection, and comfort. No matter where you are, our priority is to make sure you feel safe, valued, and celebrated.

Here, we do right by each other and everyone's welcome. We're on an action-oriented journey, championing equity, diversity, and inclusion. We'd like our future workforce to have an equal gender balance, represent a broad mix of people from minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+, those with a disability and supporting social mobility.

We're a disability confident employer and we'll do all we can to help with your application. Please let us know if you need to request reasonable adjustments.

We take pride in fostering a dynamic and inclusive environment, where the diverse backgrounds and experiences of our employees drive fresh thinking and innovation. We understand that success means different things to different people. We believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That's why we support you to pursue a career that's unique to you. Because success is personal.

What you'll be doing

You'll work under the leadership of the Senior Commercial Manager, ensuring the successful implementation of commercial procedures and compliance with HPC governance requirements.

You'll be responsible for managing key scope areas within the RD contract, overseeing commercial relationships, and ensuring stakeholder expectations are met regarding value, fairness, and supply chain engagement. You'll lead contract execution, including change management via Compensation Events, and support other commercial/contract processes and reporting.

You'll also play a key role in fostering a strong nuclear safety culture, mentoring team members, and supporting commercial assistants with reporting, data management, and procurement activities.

Who you are

Being a Commercial Manager at HPC means demonstrating strategic thinking and a data-driven approach while effectively managing contracts in a complex environment. You'll have a strong track record of leading Commercial Teams and administering NEC3 PSC contracts, ensuring sound financial decision-making on high-value matters.

You'll bring expertise in contract performance management, risk management, and change management, along with the ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders. High levels of IT literacy, including proficiency in MS Excel and SAP, are essential to support commercial activities and reporting.

If this sounds like you then we'd love to hear from you!

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.