Contracts Analyst

Vaillant Group; Belper CP; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus opportunities

25 days holiday

Pension scheme

Death in service benefit

Private health care

Onsite Bistro & Coffee Bar

Job summary

Vaillant Group in the United Kingdom seeks a Contract Analyst to own contract forecasts, ensure accurate accruals and reporting, and support business planning.

You will validate claims against contracts, resolve discrepancies, maintain the merchant contract database, and onboard contracts through the Partner Portal, while generating meaningful reports for compliance and insight.

Qualifications

• Recognised professional qualification in business, commercial administration, finance, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with contracts, reporting, forecasting, data management.
• Excellent attention to detail, strong analytical skills, advanced Excel, CRM/contract management experience.
• Exposure to claims validation, pricing, sales support, or contract administration beneficial.
• Proactive, well organized, able to manage multiple priorities.
• Comfortable working with business systems and databases.

Responsibilities

• Own contract forecasts, ensure reliable accruals, reporting accuracy and effective business planning.
• Validate claims against contractual agreements to ensure compliance and timely resolution.
• Identify, investigate and resolve contract discrepancies.
• Maintain merchant contract database and communicate updates to partners.
• Coordinate annual contract creation, onboarding in Partner Portal and ensure proper documentation.
• Manage contract and user administration in the Partner Portal and generate reports for compliance and insight.

Skills

Excel

Forecasting

Data analysis

Reporting

CRM systems

Contract administration

Education

Business/Commercial Administration qualification

Tools

Contract management systems

Job description

Having a global team of 16.000 colleagues and more than 70 nationalities. And enabling many of them to work flexibly when needed.Both count. Both are us.

Contract type: Permanent Working time: Full-time

What we achieve together

• In your role as Contract Analyst, you will take ownership of maintaining accurate contract forecasts, ensuring reliable accruals, reporting accuracy and effective business planning.
• Working closely with Sales and Claims teams, you will validate claims against contractual agreements, helping to ensure compliance, consistency and timely resolution of customer queries.
• Your responsibilities will include identifying, investigating and resolving contract discrepancies, contributing to operational excellence and positive customer experiences.
• Together with commercial stakeholders, you will maintain and develop the merchant contract database, ensuring contractual information is accurate, up to date and effectively communicated to partners.
• By coordinating the annual contract creation process, you will ensure contracts are onboarded efficiently, documented correctly and made available within the Partner Portal.
• You will manage contract and user administration within the Partner Portal while producing meaningful reports that support compliance, transparency and informed decision-making.

What makes us successful together

• You hold a recognised professional qualification in business, commercial administration, finance or a related discipline, or you have gained equivalent knowledge through relevant professional experience.
• You have experience working with contracts, reporting, forecasting, data management or a similar analytical and commercially focused environment.
• You demonstrate excellent attention to detail, strong analytical capabilities and advanced Microsoft Excel skills, supported by experience with customer relationship management or contract management systems.
• Exposure to claims validation, pricing, sales support or commercial contract administration would be beneficial in helping you make an immediate impact.
• You are proactive, highly organised and motivated by solving problems, while building strong relationships across teams and managing multiple priorities effectively.
• You are confident working with business systems, databases and online platforms, using technology to maintain data accuracy, generate reports and support efficient contract administration.

What you can count on

• We offer our employees an attractive remuneration package, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays and bonus opportunities.
• We are in the 7% of UK businesses that have received the gold award from Investors in People (IIP).
• Our onsite Bistro and Coffee Bar provide comfortable seating, healthy subsidised meal options and refreshments during the day.
• We pride ourselves on our Family Friendly Policies, designed to support our employees during important life events.
• We offer a generous pension scheme which enables our employees to have greater financial security when they do retire.
• For our employee’s peace of mind, we provide a death in service benefit and the option of subsidised private health care.

What makes us special

We take care of a better climate. In every home and our environment. As a successful family business, we have been living up to this claim for over 150 years. We are one of the world's leading providers of heat pumps, digital services and efficient gas heating appliances and offer energy‑saving solutions.

You will find sustainability everywhere at the Vaillant Group. In the office, at the production sites and on the road. Around 16,000 employees from over 70 countries are committed to this every day. As an international team, we take responsibility - for our future and that of our planet. We promote your personal development so that you can act with passion and together we can ensure a better climate.

Become part of the Vaillant Group and help us shape the future of heating!

We promote equity and do not tolerate any form of discrimination. We value the uniqueness of each individual and encourage all people to apply.