Contracts Lead

NHS; City Of London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a contract management professional to manage goods and services contracts, ensuring compliance and effective stakeholder communication. The ideal candidate will have a degree and significant experience in NHS contracting environments. Benefits include career development and flexible working.

Benefits

Career development

Flexible working

Staff wellbeing programmes

Cycle to Work scheme

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of NHS contracting arrangements and familiarity with relevant NHS contract templates.
• Significant experience of working in a busy corporate team.
• Knowledge of NHS rules around patient confidentiality and data protection.

Responsibilities

• Prepare, negotiate, and manage the goods and services contract portfolio.
• Ensure compliance, identify variances, and implement corrective measures.
• Manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Skills

Ability to work well under pressure

Good numeric skills

Ability to comprehend and evaluate complex information

Education

Educated to degree level or equivalent NHS experience

Excellent technical understanding of Microsoft Office

Tools

Microsoft Office (Access/Excel/Word)

Job description

The post holder will become a part of Finance Division at NWLP and will have primary responsibility for preparing, negotiating, and managing the goods and services contract portfolio for NWLP, as well as overseeing service level agreements.

They will ensure appropriate systems are in place to secure contract compliance, identify material variances, and implement corrective measures. The post holder will manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including the provision of information to internal stakeholders to confirm effective contract management.

Main duties of the job

• Assist in the development and construction of robust contract governance structure in line with NWLP and ICHT policies and principles.
• Lead on a portfolio of Contracts to aid development and understanding of the Contract process. Drafting and management of a portfolio of SLAs.
• Monitor and chase the return of Contract documents and supplier's reports where necessary. To support changes in submission processes of data and KPI reports and ensure all contract documentation and associated documents are updated and maintained in the centralised computer-based filing system
• Ensure a robust process and clear records are maintained in respect of debt recovery for all income relating to SLAs. Use a variety of means to communicate with division colleagues and satisfactorily resolve activity and finance queries such that outstanding invoices are paid in a timely manner.
• Take the initiative in dealing with enquires from Suppliers and Clients that are within own control/remit and assist in the monitoring and day-to-day maintenance of portfolio, where necessary.
• Provide support to the Contracts Manager in drafting reports, papers and letters, and organising and distributing papers, both internally and externally. Being responsible for the co-ordination of meetings both internally and externally.

About us

Benefits include career development, flexible working, staff wellbeing programmes, staff awards and recognition scheme. We also have available benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

NWLP Induction

The NWLP induction will run on the first Monday of each month (provided it does not fall on a bank holiday) and includes laboratory training (for relevant laboratory roles). All new staff must attend the NWLP induction during their first week with NWLP.

For 2025, see below the start dates which you will be able to book once you have completed all your pre-employment checks.

• Monday 3 November 2025
• Monday 1 December 2025

Candidates are advised to consider these start dates before agreeing end of service date with their current employer.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

EDUCATION

• Educated to degree level or equivalent NHS experience
• Excellent technical understanding of Microsoft Office (Access/Excel/Word) and ability to use functionality
• Sound financial understanding of contracting

SKILLS/ ABILITIES

• Ability to work well under pressure and to tight timescales
• Able to comprehend, analyse and evaluate complex information
• Able to concentrate for long periods when inputting and analysing data / information.
• Good numeric skills

EXPERIENCE

• Significant experience of working in a busy corporate team.
• Experience of working with clinical/operational teams
• Strong understanding of NHS contracting arrangements and familiarity with relevant NHS contract templates/ guidance/framework agreements.
• Knowledge of NHS rules around patient confidentiality and data protection
• Experience of working in a complex organisation
• Good knowledge of commercial contracting processes and mechanisms and significant experience of negotiating commercial agreements

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.