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Procurement Manager (Sizewell C)
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Procurement Manager Sizewell C
Location: London, Manchester, Suffolk
Contract: Permanent, full-time.
Closing Date: Monday 27th July 2026
What’s in It for You:
- Salary: Competitive (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
Reporting to the Civils Works Programme Commercial Lead (for Procurement), you’ll act as a commercial point of contact for procurement of mainly professional services, and governance and assurance. You will play a key role in ensuring the implementation of procurement governance and assurance across the Civils Works Programme procurement activities.
This role includes leading end-to-end tendering activity, shaping commercial strategy, managing supplier negotiations, managing papers through governance and assurance processes, and supporting a multi-discipline project team to ensure a ‘best for project’ outcome.
- Excellent knowledge of best practice procurement policy and procedure.
- Demonstrable track record of developing or working within procurement governance and assurance structures with supporting policy and processes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to draft well-written governance papers and present/explain them in a clear and engaging way to stakeholders.
- A proven track record of operational effectiveness in a sophisticated matrix structure coupled with project management expertise and the ability to drive for and exceed required goals.
- Significant hands-on end-to-end procurement experience gained on large construction project procurements.
- Proven track record of procurement in the set-up and mobilisation stage and/or delivery stage of major construction projects/Programmes.
- Developing and supporting procurement and contracting strategies.
- Preparing tender documentation and evaluating proposals.
- Coordinating technical, legal, commercial and programme inputs.
- Ensuring internal governance approvals are achieved on time for contract award.
- You will also play a visible role in promoting good commercial practice, fairness in the supply chain and the project’s safety and quality standards.
- There is scope for the role to expand as the project moves into more complex delivery phases.
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About You
Due to the nature of the role, you must possess strong written and verbal communication skills along with the confidence to interface with a wide range of stakeholders, some at the most senior level within the company. The role will require you to be a self-starter with excellent communication and influencing skills. You will be confident working within a major infrastructure or engineering programme and comfortable handling high-value and technically complex transactions.
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Experience:
- Strong track record of procurement governance and assurance on large projects/Programmes.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to draft well-written governance papers and present/explain them in a clear and engaging way to stakeholders.
- Hands-on end-to-end procurement experience of professional services/similar contracts.
- Experience of the NEC contract form and pricing models.
- Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
- Clear understanding of contract governance, risk management and commercial assurance.
- Experience working in a regulated or high-integrity environment.
Desirable:
- Chartered or professional membership (MCIPS, RICS, ICE, CICES, IOB or equivalent).
- Degree-educated.
- Alliancing models/contract forms
- Knowledge of the UK nuclear sector or other highly regulated industries.
- Understanding of UK regulatory frameworks and commercial governance.
- Ability to lead and support more junior commercial staff.
Why Join Us
- A major infrastructure project with national impact
- Hybrid working with flexibility built in
- Competitive salary, bonus and benefits
- Clear progression and development opportunities
- Supportive, collaborative team environment
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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.
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