UCL
Contracts Manager (Revenue Generating)
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UCL is one of the world's top 10 universities, with more than 50,000 students, 16,000 staff and a turnover exceeding £2bn. With that scale comes an exciting and diverse range of commercial, research, education and innovation opportunities.
We're looking for a Contracts Manager (Revenue Generating) to join UCL's Legal Services team and provide practical contracting support to help colleagues progress those opportunities effectively. This role forms part of a newly established team focused on supporting UCL's revenue-generating activity.
As the team develops, the shape of the role and the mix of work are likely to evolve, so we're looking for someone who is comfortable working in a developing service, helping to shape processes and adapting as priorities change.
About the role
As Contracts Manager (Revenue Generating), you'll be the first point of contact for a portfolio of routine and moderately complex income-generating contracts, working closely with colleagues across Legal Services, Finance, Commercial & Procurement, Research & Innovation, faculties, departments and professional services.
You'll:
- Review, draft and negotiate a broad range of commercial agreements, including consultancy, research and collaboration agreements, statements of work and services contracts, SaaS/software arrangements, and IP licences.
- Provide practical, commercially focused contract guidance that helps colleagues progress opportunities while protecting UCL's legal, financial, regulatory and reputational interests.
- Manage contracts from initial instruction through negotiation, execution and handover, keeping records accurate and stakeholders informed.
- Apply UCL's templates, playbooks and standard positions, identifying deviations and escalating novel, complex or higher-risk issues to Legal Counsel.
- Work collaboratively with specialist teams on areas including IP, data protection, tax, insurance, procurement and commercialisation.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of contract processes, templates, guidance and contract management systems.
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This is a great opportunity to work at the heart of a globally recognised institution, supporting innovative, revenue-generating activity across education, research, enterprise and commercial partnerships - and helping shape a newly established contracting function as it develops.
A full range of duties can be found on the attached job description.
Please note we are currently hiring for two of these positions.
About you
To do this job you'll need practical experience of reviewing, drafting and negotiating commercial, research or other legal agreements. You'll understand key contractual issues such as IP, confidentiality, liability, indemnities, warranties, data protection, performance and governing law, and be confident identifying commercial risks and proposing pragmatic solutions.
You'll be commercially minded, organised and collaborative, with the ability to explain complex contractual issues clearly to non-specialists, manage competing priorities and build positive working relationships with stakeholders.
Experience involving software, consultancy, research, services, data protection, IP or commercial collaborations will be particularly valuable.
If you enjoy finding practical ways through contractual challenges and want to support work with real institutional impact, we'd love to hear from you.
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What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
- 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
- Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
- Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
- Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
- Immigration loan · Relocation scheme for certain posts
- On-Site nursery
- On-site gym
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
- Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
- Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.
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