Governance and Business Performance Lead

Job Description

Location: London (Hybrid – 2 to 3 days in the office)

Contract Type: Office-based, with hybrid working flexibility

Working Pattern: Full time

Salary: Competitive salary, based on experience.

Benefits:

• 28 days holiday + bank holidays
• 5% annual performance bonus
• Market-leading pension (up to 7.5% employee contribution, 15% company contribution)
• Additional comprehensive benefits package

Closing date: Tuesday 12th August 2025

Be part of one of the UK’s most transformative infrastructure projects. Sizewell C is not just building a power station — we’re shaping the future of sustainable energy. As a Governance and Business Performance Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in ensuring our corporate governance and performance frameworks are world-class, supporting the delivery of a low-carbon future.

The Role

Reporting into the Corporate Operations Directorate, this role is central to driving strategic clarity, operational efficiency, and governance excellence across Sizewell C. You’ll lead the development and implementation of performance monitoring frameworks, oversee the review of key corporate documentation, and ensure alignment with regulatory and strategic objectives. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team where your ideas are valued and there’s real scope to shape how we work as we continue to evolve.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead structured reviews of corporate policies, governance frameworks, and operating models.
• Develop and embed performance monitoring systems aligned with strategic goals.
• Standardise governance documentation processes to ensure clarity and compliance.
• Drive stakeholder engagement to align governance with operational execution.
• Provide analytical insights to leadership to inform strategic decisions.
• Champion continuous improvement in business performance and governance.

Why This Role Matters

• You’ll operate in a uniquely complex stakeholder environment, including government, regulators, and private investors.
• You’ll help shape the governance of a multi-billion-pound nuclear construction project.
• You’ll ensure Sizewell C meets the highest standards of corporate governance and public accountability.
• You’ll be a key player in a company aligned with Managing Public Money and Cabinet Office Controls.

What You’ll Bring

• Strong analytical and communication skills.
• Expertise in governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) frameworks.
• Experience in corporate documentation, performance analysis, and stakeholder engagement.
• Familiarity with ISO standards and the UK Corporate Governance Code.

• Proven experience in strategic planning, governance, or business performance roles.
• Track record of leading documentation reviews and driving operational improvements.

Ready to Power the Future?

If you’re passionate about governance, strategy, and making a tangible impact on the UK’s energy future, we want to hear from you.

Apply now and help shape the next generation of nuclear energy at Sizewell C.

A full job description is available on application.

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Power in Diversity

Sizewell C is a great place to work, where everyone is welcome.

To fulfil our commitment of doing the power of good for Britain, our ambition is to have a workforce which reflects and benefits the society we are part of and serve. Every worker on SZC, wherever they are, should help to create and experience the right environment where everyone on the team understands, respects and embraces diversity with a culture where everyone is treated with equal respect and are all given equal access to opportunities. By valuing the different points of view and experiences that having a diverse team brings, and by fostering an inclusive climate, we will create a great place to work and a more successful project.

We create the right environment where people feel able to bring their whole selves to work. Whilst working together there is mutual trust and appreciation created through the building of meaningful relationships with one another, aligned with our key values:

Respect: Value the rules and environment in which we operate

Positivity: Positively challenge poor quality and performance

Humility: Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise

Solidarity: One team, working closely together and helping each other

Clarity: Communicate clearly and consistently

Everyone is able to get the most from their work and the workplace, and in return, give their best.

Sizewell C Limited (Sizewell C) is nuclear site licensed company whose business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk. Sizewell C was formerly under the majority ownership of the EDF Group but is currently majority owned by HM Government and operates as an independent company. EDF remains a key shareholder in Sizewell C and the business therefore maintains close links to EDF as a part of its ‘nuclear family’.

As a Sizewell C employee, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email, or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.

Additional Information

Join the team at Sizewell C. The power of good for Britain.

It’s not every day you get the opportunity to shape the working culture of what will be one of Europe’s largest construction projects, while also helping Britain to reach its target of Net Zero emissions by 2050. That’s one of the reasons Sizewell C will be unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before, and you’ll need to be an exceptional professional to reach the high standards this critical infrastructure project demands.

The UK is experiencing a nuclear renaissance and Sizewell C – along with its sister project at Hinkley Point C in Somerset – is powering the change. We’re ramping up at pace as we look ahead to the Financial Investment Decision in early 2025, and the start of construction soon after. With government fully on board and public opinion shifting significantly in favour of nuclear, there’s never been a better time to join our project.

By submitting an application to this role, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Sizewell C’s employee privacy policy and EDF's employee privacy policy. Just to let you know, EDF will be processing and sharing information about your application on behalf of Sizewell C.