Value Director

Overview

Value for Money Director – Civil Works Alliance (CWA), Supporting Sizewell C, part of the CWA Wide Section. Sizewell C will be a 3.2‑gigawatt low‑carbon power station supplying electricity for about six million homes and playing a key role in the UK’s energy future.

• Embed and institutionalise the CWA core proposition, ensuring TOC development and gate‑by‑gate progress of risk ownership, PAA obligation delivery and RAB‑compliant VfM evidence are readily available and demonstrable.
• Own the system, process, method, evidence standard and continuous improvement framework within the CWA for PAA, RAB, VfM, risk and opportunity integration.
• Establish a disciplined and auditable process that enables consistent challenge, evidence sufficiency and delivery accountability.
• Drive continual improvement in the maturity, traceability and defensibility of TOC development and approval processes.
• Challenge TOC assumptions and require evidence, maturity, named ownership and traceability for material assumptions.
• Ensure that no material risk enters the TOC unless it is traceable to cost, schedule, owner, treatment and supporting evidence.
• Escalate weak VfM positions and evidence gaps that threaten NTS/NTP acceptance or RAB defensibility.
• Recommend gate progression is held where evidence is insufficient, double‑counted, weakly owned or not delivery‑ready.
• Ensure that residual risk is formally accepted by Delivery Directors at each relevant gate.
• Work closely with the CWA Alliance Director, TOC Director, Bid Director, TOC Team and Delivery Directors to ensure clear accountability.
• Support Delivery Directors in taking ownership of delivery assumptions, risk acceptance, logistics readiness and workface readiness.
• Promote the integrated ownership of planning, logistics and industrialisation across CWP, SD and CWA.
• Ensure that value is protected after NTP through leakage identification, reporting and action tracking.
• Implement post‑NTP controls to monitor VfM leakage, risk crystallisation, opportunity realisation and TOC drift.
• Establish learning loops, root cause analysis and improvement actions to enhance subsequent TOC development and delivery performance.
• Define and maintain evidence standards required to pass LOD‑0, LOD‑1, LOD‑2 and LOD‑3 scrutiny.
• Support delivery teams in evidencing workface readiness, methodology, constraints, logistics demand, risk treatment and PAA/RAB/VfM compliance.
• Support the progressive assurance model by strengthening the quality of CWA self‑evidence at LOD‑0.

• Degree qualification in Engineering, Commercial Management, Construction Management, Risk Management, Economics or Programme Management.
• Significant experience in nuclear, major infrastructure, regulated utilities, transport or other highly regulated sectors.
• Significant experience in major commercial programme, risk, assurance, delivery or TOC leadership roles gained across alliance networks, regulated infrastructure operators, major capital programmes or specialist commercial/risk consultancies.
• Senior delivery leadership experience in high‑value, high‑complexity infrastructure programmes with proven influencing skills and the ability to challenge senior leaders constructively with evidence.
• Proven track record of implementing or strengthening governance, evidence and assurance disciplines across live delivery packages.
• Experience in risk and opportunity quantification and in establishing traceability between risks, assumptions and programme outcomes.
• Strong understanding of TOC development, target cost processes, PAA compliance, RAB principles and Value for Money requirements and ability to integrate cost, schedule, risk, opportunity and commercial evidence into a single decision‑making framework.
• Ability to establish and operate auditable, evidence‑led governance and assurance processes in complex programme environments.
• Strong analytical capability in relation to delivery readiness, evidence sufficiency, post‑NTP value protection and performance assurance.
• Demonstrated capability in risk and opportunity integration, including traceability to cost, schedule, ownership and treatment.
• Strong ability to challenge…