About the Role
Commercial Manager – (French and English speaker)
Full-time, permanent position based at Aztec West (Bristol) initially with the objective to relocate to France
Step into a role where your commercial expertise shapes the success of one of Europe’s most complex infrastructure programmes. As a Commercial Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in managing high-value contracts, influencing key stakeholders, and ensuring value is delivered across critical project scopes at Hinkley Point C and beyond. At EDF, Success is Personal – your impact, your growth, your future.
The Opportunity
As a Commercial Manager, you’ll support the successful delivery of the Responsible Designer (RD) contract at Hinkley Point C, helping drive commercial excellence across a critical engineering delivery function. Working collaboratively within a specialist team, you’ll act as the first point of contact for commercial matters, managing defined scope areas while ensuring contract governance, value optimisation, and strong stakeholder engagement. Your work will directly contribute to the successful execution of a programme supporting the transition towards An Electric Britain.
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, this role is based at Aztec West in Bristol, with a hybrid working pattern requiring at least three days per week in the office. After approximately 18–24 months, you’ll relocate to France to join EDF SA and support EPR2 projects such as Penly, Bugey, or Gravelines, gaining exposure to international project delivery and large-scale nuclear programmes. You’ll need to offer business-level proficiency in French communication skills.
This role offers the opportunity to deepen your expertise across NEC contract management, compensation events, and commercial governance in a highly regulated environment. You’ll strengthen your ability to lead on complex financial decisions, influence senior stakeholders, and support the development of commercial team capability, positioning yourself for long-term progression within EDF’s global project and commercial leadership community.
Who You Are
We’re looking for a Commercial Manager who thrives in complex, regulated environments, brings a strong analytical and strategic mindset, and can confidently lead contract management activities while influencing senior stakeholders. Are you experienced in…?
- Managing commercial activities within large, complex infrastructure or engineering projects
- Administering NEC3 PSC contracts, including management of compensation events
- Contract performance, risk management, and change control processes
- Engaging and influencing senior stakeholders across multidisciplinary environments
- Making sound commercial decisions involving significant financial value
- Leading or supporting commercial teams and driving high standards of delivery
- Using IT systems such as MS Excel and SAP to manage and analyse commercial data
- French – oral and writing proficiency, with a keen desire to achieve business-level proficiency prior to relocating to France
What You’ll Be Doing
- Managing commercial aspects of defined scope areas within the Responsible Designer contract
- Acting as the key commercial interface for project and engineering stakeholders
- Leading contract management activities, including compensation events and change control
- Building collaborative relationships with supply chain partners to drive value and performance
- Supporting reporting, governance, and contract close-out in line with HPC procedures
Pay, Benefits and Culture
Alongside a competitive salary and potential for an annual bonus, and a market-leading pension scheme, your package will include customisable benefits such as electric vehicle leasing, discounted gym membership, life assurance, tech vouchers, experience days, and more.
At EDF, we believe there are multiple definitions of what it means to succeed. That’s why we offer you the freedom to develop a career that’s unique to you. Here, Success is Personal – it’s your journey, powered by us.
Everyone is welcome at EDF; we’re committed to building a workforce that reflects gender balance, social mobility, and inclusion of minority ethnic backgrounds, LGBTQ+ communities, and those with disabilities. As a Disability Confident employer, we will support applicants requiring adjustments.
Join us and find your success at EDF!
Closing date for applications Monday 8th June
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Success is Personal. It's your journey, powered by us. Join us and drive the transition towards An Electric Britain.
