Contracts Executive

HCA Healthcare UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

HCA Healthcare UK is seeking a Contracts Executive to support the full contract management lifecycle and ensure commercial agreements operate effectively. You’ll help optimise payer relationships across the organisation and collaborate with Finance, Revenue Cycle, and operations.

The role requires strong analytical skills, high attention to detail, and excellent communication abilities to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced private healthcare setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in a commercial contracts environment.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail and numerical ability.
• Advanced Excel skills and familiarity with business systems.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced setting.
• Healthcare payer contracts knowledge is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support the full contract management lifecycle and ensure obligations are tracked.
• Interpret commercial agreements and advise colleagues on contract compliance.
• Monitor payer performance and coordinate with stakeholders to resolve issues.
• Support pricing and audit activities, including billing rule analysis.
• Contribute to best practice guidance, training materials and process improvements.

Skills

Commercial contracts experience

Analytical skills

Stakeholder engagement

Attention to detail

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Meditech

Job description

Location: 2 Cavendish Square, London
Contract Type: Full time, Permanent
Working hours: 37.5 hours per week
Flexible/Hybrid

At HCA Healthcare UK, our colleagues are at the heart of everything we do. Whether supporting our hospitals, corporate functions or patient services, every role plays an important part in helping us deliver exceptional care. Joining our Commercial team as a Contracts Executive offers the opportunity to work in a fast paced, collaborative environment where your expertise, attention to detail and ability to build strong relationships will have a direct impact across the organisation. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially minded professional who enjoys problem solving, working with data and navigating complex contract arrangements. You'll work closely with colleagues across Finance, Revenue Cycle, hospital operations and senior commercial stakeholders, gaining broad exposure to the private healthcare market and helping ensure our payer relationships are effectively managed and optimised. Above all else, we’re committed to the care and improvement of human life. It’s this guiding vision that influences everything we do at HCA UK. From the CEO to the colleagues on the floor we all have a part to play in delivering exceptional care to our patients. Other’s may think this is just a role in Commercial, but to us, you’ll be part of a wider team with a unique sense of purpose, one that helps improve lives on a daily basis.

What you'll do

As a Contracts Executive, you'll support the full contract management lifecycle, helping ensure our commercial agreements operate effectively and deliver the best outcomes for the business. You'll:

• Support the management of payer relationships, responding to queries and ensuring contractual obligations are tracked and delivered.
• Interpret commercial agreements and provide guidance to colleagues across the organisation to support contract compliance.
• Monitor payer performance, investigate variances and work collaboratively with stakeholders to resolve issues and improve outcomes.
• Support pricing and audit activities, including analysis of billing rules, pricing queries and commercial data.
• Help develop best practice guidance, training materials and process improvements that support operational excellence.

What we're looking for

You’ll be a highly organised and analytical professional who enjoys working collaboratively and building strong working relationships. To be successful, you’ll bring:

• Experience working within a commercial contracts environment.
• Strong analytical skills with excellent attention to detail and numerical ability.
• Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and other business systems.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels.
• The ability to manage competing priorities and perform well in a fast paced environment.
• Experience within private healthcare, knowledge of payer contracts and familiarity with systems such as Meditech would be advantageous.

Why join HCA Healthcare UK?

When you join us, you'll become part of a supportive team culture where learning, collaboration and continuous improvement are encouraged. You'll have the opportunity to develop your commercial expertise, gain exposure to senior stakeholders and contribute to projects that support the ongoing success of one of the UK's leading private healthcare providers. We recognise the value our colleagues bring and are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels respected, supported and empowered to achieve their potential. Life with us means taking pride in your team and delivering the highest quality care. We’ll support your ongoing learning in an environment that features advanced equipment and practices, one of the best colleague-to-patient ratios in the UK and varied, interesting work. As part of HCA Healthcare US, the world’s largest healthcare company, we can also promise that you’ll learn from experts in every department and that your opportunities will be endless. With us, you’ll be empowered to achieve more in your career, and more for our patients. HCA Healthcare: Over 50 years of creating a healthier tomorrow