Job Description
Location: Chiswick, London
About the Role
The Contract Specialist serves as a key member of the commercial legal team supporting UPS Healthcare Precision Logistics. This role is responsible for drafting, reviewing, negotiating, and administering commercial agreements while partnering closely with sales, operations, procurement, finance, quality, and business leadership. You will manage high volumes of commercial contracts and drive efficient deal execution through the use of templates, playbooks, and approved risk frameworks.
What You'll Get
- Salary: in the region of £40,000 – £50,000 per annum (depending on experience)
- Management Incentive Plan
- Private Health Insurance
- Comprehensive employee benefit package
What You'll Do
- Draft, review, redline, and negotiate customer, vendor, confidentiality, and related commercial agreements.
- Manage contract requests end-to-end from intake through execution.
- Support master service agreements, statements of work, amendments, work orders, and procurement contracts.
- Identify contractual risks and elevate matters requiring attorney review when necessary.
- Apply approved contract playbooks and fallback positions to ensure compliance and efficiency.
- Partner with business development teams to accelerate revenue opportunities.
- Coordinate cross-functionally with operations, quality, finance, procurement, and risk management stakeholders.
- Maintain contract records within CLM systems (including Icertis).
- Support contract reporting and process improvement initiatives.
- Work autonomously with a pragmatic, solution-oriented approach.
- Assist with customer RFPs and commercial proposals.
Qualifications & Skills
- Bachelor's degree.
- 2–4 years of commercial contract management, contract administration, procurement contracting, paralegal, or related experience.
- Proven experience negotiating commercial services agreements.
- Strong drafting and redlining skills.
- Experience using Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) systems preferred.
- Experience supporting commercial contract reviews within a large organization preferred.
- Background in healthcare, logistics, transportation, life sciences, or pharmaceuticals preferred.
Employment Details
Employee Type: Permanent. UPS is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation.
Equal Opportunity Statement
UPS is committed to a policy of treating individuals fairly and recruiting, selecting, training, promoting and compensating based on merit, experience and other work-related criteria. We do not discriminate against any applicant based on age, race, religion, sex, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
About UPS
In 1907, two teenage entrepreneurs in a Seattle basement started with a $100 loan and created what would become the world’s largest package delivery service. Today, operating in more than 220 countries and territories, UPS is committed to moving our world forward by delivering what matters. UPS and its more than 500,000 UPSers around the globe are a transportation and logistics leader, offering innovative solutions to customers, big and small. UPS understands and appreciates its responsibility to help build safe, stronger and more resilient communities founded on justice and economic opportunity for all, supported by a healthy, sustainable global environment.
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