Commercial Manager, Sunderland

7 days ago

United Kingdom EDF Energy Full time

Energise Your Career, Accelerate a Net-Zero Future #RenewablesJobs

The opportunity


This key role serves as the focal point for all commercial matters within the department, ensuring minimal value leakage from signed contracts, optimising the design of new agreements, and enhancing our commercial management framework. Your contributions will directly support the growth and success of the UK&I renewables onshore business.

Working collaboratively with stakeholders at all levels across the UK&I teams, you’ll proactively ensure that contract requirements are met, and their impacts are successfully managed to align with broader business objectives.


Pay, benefits and culture

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.
We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.


What you’ll be doing

This role offers the opportunity to shape commercial strategies that underpin the success of EDF’s renewable energy ambitions while building strong cross-functional relationships within a forward-thinking, purpose-driven organization.

  • Oversee the day-to-day coordination of our commercial management efforts, including those services provided currently provided by an outsourced partner.
  • Lead governance for commercial management, ensuring contract delivery aligns with EDF governance requirements and supports project and business goals.
  • Collaborate with project delivery teams to achieve project deliverables, monitor KPIs, and drive performance in areas such as programme delivery, cost control, and value engineering.
  • Support the procurement process during the pre-award phase and provide commercial management expertise throughout contract execution (post-award).
  • Providing accurate project cost monitoring, forecasting and reporting to completion in line with budget and then driving improvements in the accuracy of forecasts and budgets
  • Pro-actively monitoring and managing cost variance and contract cash flow and ensuring that applications are made correctly and in a timely manner.

What do you need to be great at this role?

You’ll have effective commercial / contract management skills, with clear knowledge of best practice contract methodologies and demonstrable an ability to make sound decisions on matters of significant financial value in addition to:

  • Ability to demonstrate a considerable track record of administering successful contracts.
  • Strong understanding of contract performance measurement, risk management and change and claim management within governance parameters and adopting best practice.
  • A track record with most common forms of contract (e.g. NEC, JCT and FIDIC) within the construction and infrastructure environment; with particular knowledge of UK Law and its impact upon the contract and commercial function.
  • Capability to drive change into traditional stakeholder relationships and gather business support for new ways of working that create value for the business.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across teams and geographies to form alignment.
  • Being an expert in creating and delivering longer term plans and outcomes.
  • Having excellent negotiation skills and the ability to proactively challenge and influence key stakeholders.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills with ability to communicate at all levels.
  • A collaborative approach.
  • Leading by example, being resilient and able to navigate complex challenges & deal with ambiguity.

Ideally you will have previous experience within the renewables or power construction industry and major projects and programme environment.

Closing date for applications: 13th January 2025

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

Join us, and let’s do good together.

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