Overview
Senior Manager of Procurement – London, UK
At EDF, success is personal. Here you’ll develop a career that’s unique to you. Whether you want to move horizontally, deepen your specialty, or advance through the levels — it’s your journey, powered by us.
The Opportunity
The Senior Manager of Procurement will have responsibility for supporting the Retail and Zero Carbon Homes (ZCH) areas within the Customers and Corporate Supply Chain activities. The Retail and ZCH team form part of the Customers and Corporate Supply Chain team, which reports into Customers Finance. It’s a key role, able to influence the long-term and short-term activities of the Supply Chain team.
Pay, benefits and culture
Alongside a salary of £70,000 (DOE) 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
Key Responsibilities:
- Drive strategic procurement activities, negotiating contracts and renewals, and supporting market analysis to optimise supplier options.
- Build strong partnerships with Retail and Business Development Directors, P&L owners (up to SLT), and cross-functional teams to influence decision-making and align procurement with business objectives.
- Providing leadership, ensuring the direct reports have a customer service mindset and ensuring the team works in a safe and environmentally acceptable manner.
- Negotiating with suppliers on both new contracts and renewals and, where commercially justifiable, undertaking market scanning to support the provision of options to P&L owners.
- Ensure robust supplier relationship management, contract compliance, risk mitigation, and sustainable sourcing aligned with health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Manage disputes, contract variations, and leverage group procurement synergies to deliver continuous improvement and protect company interests.
- Where relevant, identifying and leveraging group procurement synergies.
- Ensuring risks are understood and mitigated to an agreed level through effective contracts, processes and professional relationships with our key suppliers and contractors. Ensuring third party suppliers and contractors both understand and work in alignment with our health, safety, environment and quality practices and standards.
Who you are
To excel in this role, you will:
- Demonstrate excellent people leadership capabilities with a proven ability to inspire, develop and empower high-performing individuals. You’ll be able to foster a culture of trust, accountability continuous improvement while effectively managing performance, supporting professional growth and leading through change with empathy and clarity.
- Bring a strong service-oriented mindset, proactively anticipating stakeholder needs and building lasting relationships. Your communication and collaboration skills will consistently exceed expectations across diverse groups.
- Possess solid expertise in contracts and procurement processes, with hands-on experience in contract drafting, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement. You’ll confidently navigate complex contractual frameworks and continuously develop your commercial and legal knowledge.
- Have deep understanding of contract and commercial law, skilled in interpreting terms, managing risks, and ensuring compliance with regulatory and legislative requirements – all while supporting strategic business goals.
- Demonstrate proven success in managing bid processes, including supplier sourcing, documentation, evaluation, and awarding multidiscipline contracts.
- Excel in negotiating complex contracts across multiple sectors, leveraging strong commercial acumen to drive strategic negotiations to successful outcomes.
- Communicate with clarity and impact – both written and verbal – translating complex information into persuasive messages tailored for diverse audiences.
- Showcase excellent presentation, influencing, and facilitation skills that enable effective stakeholder engagement and support informed decision-making.
- Have hands-on experience in procurement or supply chain teams with a solid grasp of end-to-end sourcing and supplier management.
- Think forward with a passion for leveraging automation, robotics, and AI to boost efficiency, reduce risk, and improve results.
- Be committed to health, safety, wellbeing, and sustainability, contributing to our goal of becoming a responsible business financially, environmentally, and socially.
If this sounds like you, then we’d love to hear from you!
Closing date for applications: 7th September 2025
Location: Flexible (Hybrid – with adhoc travel to our offices in London and Hove)
Success is personal. It’s your journey, powered by us. Join us and we’ll help Britain achieve Net Zero together.
