Contracts Manager - Canary Wharf, United Kingdom - Fill My Vacancy

Fill My Vacancy
Fill My Vacancy
Verified Company
Canary Wharf, United Kingdom

2 days ago

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Role Overview


Reporting to the Director of Analysis and Governance, the Manager takes responsibility for a swift and effective resolution of contractual issues and working to ensure that their interests are protected and their risks managed, while maintaining positiverelationships with counterparties.

This is a rewarding role for someone seeking to develop a career in commercial management within the research sector.

The Contracts Manager - They will deal directly with the commercial teams at universities in the UK and abroad, public bodies, commercialsponsors and charitable foundations.

They will be able to build their knowledge and understanding of best practices and key risks in funded research and big data analysis.

By helping them fund and deliver its research programme, the Contracts Manager - Theyhelp make a difference to millions of low
- and moderate-income savers, and contributes to a programme with a strong reputation and high profile across the public policy community and pensions industry.


This is a real development opportunity, they are interested in giving you the opportunity to grow and develop, rather than you necessarily being the complete package.

It would be desirable to have experience of contract management in a university, charityor funding body.

The key skills they are looking for are:

  • Drafting and negotiating contracts and data sharing agreements
  • Managing and prioritising across a portfolio of contracts
  • Understanding of data protection and intellectual property law
Salary range and working patterns

This is a permanent role with a salary of £48,000-£54,000 (pro rated)


Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working
- hybrid of office and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work from home (or a different location)
- work compressed hours
- job share

Directorate/Department Overview


They are a public-benefit research and innovation centre set up by their Corporation in 2016 to find ways to support low and moderate income workers to be financially secure, both today and into retirement.


They conduct rigorous, cutting-edge research, working collaboratively with industry and academic partners to understand the needs and behaviours of the new generation of savers created by the UK's pensions auto enrolment system.

They also consider how self-employedworkers and others at risk of missing out on pension saving can be brought in. They use their data-driven insights into this wide range of financial challenges to identify and test practical, real-world solutions.

Their findings are shared widely and freelyto help inform industry and policymakers so that people around the world can benefit from thir work.

Their work builds on their well-established research programme and access to a unique body of data.

Together their team of 11 deliver an ambitious programme of research, publications and events, sharing best practice, both nationally and abroad.


Whilst they are a business unit of their Corporation, they are responsible for raising their own operating budget through sponsorships, grants and in-kind support from organisations with similar research interests, goals and values.

By working in partnership with industry, academics, innovators and policymakers, and sharing their research widely and freely, they're generating insights that could improve the retirement outcomes of millions of savers worldwide.

With lots of exciting projects ongoing and in the pipeline, and plans to expand their reach significantly, this is an exciting time to join them.

Organisational Overview

They are an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.


Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, their first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what they do, supported by all the functions you'd expect to find in a thriving business.

They'recommitted to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

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