Contract Manager
| Posting date: | 19 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £55,000 to £60,000 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 03 December 2025 |
| Location: | Canary Wharf, London, E14 4PU |
| Company: | Nest Corporation |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 58512576 |
Summary
Role Overview
Contract Manager - Nest Insight
We're looking for a highly skilled Contract Manager to join our dynamic team at Nest Insight. In this role, you will lead Nest Insight’s contract management process, ensuring agreements are drafted, negotiated, and executed efficiently while safeguarding our interests and managing risk. You’ll work closely with project teams and external partners - including universities, public bodies, commercial firms, and non-profits - to deliver contractual solutions that enable us to deliver our ambitious programme.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong contract management expertise - or someone looking to grow their career in this area - within a purpose-driven organisation.
What you'll be doing:
- Manage the process for drafting, negotiating, and advising on all our contracting requirements
- Work closely with internal teams and external partners to resolve contract issues and ensure alignment with our policies and risk standards.
- Maintain comprehensive records and ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including public procurement and data protection.
- Develop and maintain contract templates, policies, and guidance materials.
- Deliver training sessions to the team on legal considerations and contract processes.
- Monitor live contracts and manage amendments as required.
The minimum requirement for this role are:
- Solid experience in contract management, with a strong understanding of UK commercial law.
- Demonstrated ability to draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements to a high standard.
- Excellent legal analysis skills combined with sound commercial judgment.
- Strong communication abilities and proven stakeholder engagement skills.
- Good working understanding of data protection regulation.
- Skilled at prioritising multiple tasks and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
About Nest Insight
Nest Insight is a public-benefit research and innovation centre established by Nest Corporation in 2016. We exist to find ways to support low and moderate income workers to be financially secure, today and into retirement.
Our team of 25 focuses on understanding the lived experience of people on low and moderate incomes, learning about their financial needs, challenges and goals through rigorous and thoughtful analysis. We partner with employers, product providers, academics and policymakers to identify, invent, test and evolve practical solutions and see what works best for people in the real world. This builds the case for systems-level change. Our findings are shared widely and freely so that people around the globe can benefit from our work.
We are passionate about social impact, innovative in our thinking, and committed to learning and development.
For more information about our work, see our website: Nest Insight – household financial security research and innovation centre.
Organisational Overview
Nest is 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, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.
We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
Contract Manager - Nest Insight
We're looking for a highly skilled Contract Manager to join our dynamic team at Nest Insight. In this role, you will lead Nest Insight’s contract management process, ensuring agreements are drafted, negotiated, and executed efficiently while safeguarding our interests and managing risk. You’ll work closely with project teams and external partners - including universities, public bodies, commercial firms, and non-profits - to deliver contractual solutions that enable us to deliver our ambitious programme.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone with strong contract management expertise - or someone looking to grow their career in this area - within a purpose-driven organisation.
What you'll be doing:
- Manage the process for drafting, negotiating, and advising on all our contracting requirements
- Work closely with internal teams and external partners to resolve contract issues and ensure alignment with our policies and risk standards.
- Maintain comprehensive records and ensure compliance with relevant legislation, including public procurement and data protection.
- Develop and maintain contract templates, policies, and guidance materials.
- Deliver training sessions to the team on legal considerations and contract processes.
- Monitor live contracts and manage amendments as required.
The minimum requirement for this role are:
- Solid experience in contract management, with a strong understanding of UK commercial law.
- Demonstrated ability to draft, review, and negotiate a wide range of agreements to a high standard.
- Excellent legal analysis skills combined with sound commercial judgment.
- Strong communication abilities and proven stakeholder engagement skills.
- Good working understanding of data protection regulation.
- Skilled at prioritising multiple tasks and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.
Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.
Flexible and agile working
Everyone's personal situation is different.
To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):
- hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
- reduce or vary working hours
- reduce or vary the days worked
- work compressed hours
- job share
Click here to see the benefits we offer at Nest.
For more information about our recruitment process click here
About Nest Insight
Nest Insight is a public-benefit research and innovation centre established by Nest Corporation in 2016. We exist to find ways to support low and moderate income workers to be financially secure, today and into retirement.
Our team of 25 focuses on understanding the lived experience of people on low and moderate incomes, learning about their financial needs, challenges and goals through rigorous and thoughtful analysis. We partner with employers, product providers, academics and policymakers to identify, invent, test and evolve practical solutions and see what works best for people in the real world. This builds the case for systems-level change. Our findings are shared widely and freely so that people around the globe can benefit from our work.
We are passionate about social impact, innovative in our thinking, and committed to learning and development.
For more information about our work, see our website: Nest Insight – household financial security research and innovation centre.
Organisational Overview
Nest is 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, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.
We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.
Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.
We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.
Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.
If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact: careers@nestcorporation.org.uk.
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About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.