About the Team
You will join the EMEA Commercial Legal team supporting UK and EMEA public sector customers. The team partners closely with Sales, Corporate Affairs, Compliance, Security, and Customer Success to enable compliant, scalable growth across central, regional and local government, higher education, social housing, and health. This role will primarily be responsible for managing strategic public sector contracts and frameworks; ensuring regulatory and policy compliance; and shaping our routes to market.
About the Role
Principal Contract Manager – Public Sector (UK & EMEA) is the senior contract lead for our public sector portfolio. Combine deep knowledge of public sector frameworks and policy with hands‑on contract management and strategic deal support.
What you’ll do:
- Design, run, and continuously improve contract management systems and processes for UK and EMEA public sector customers.
- Maintain accurate, searchable records for strategic contracts and frameworks, including risk, obligations, and renewal data and coordinate with compliance and audit teams.
- Identify, assess, and recommend participation in new frameworks and contract vehicles in UK and key EMEA markets and manage day‑to‑day engagement with UK public sector buying bodies (e.g. central government commercial agencies).
- Ensure full compliance with framework‑level obligations, including reporting, information returns, and audits.
- Help track emerging procurement policy (e.g. social value, sustainability, modern slavery, prompt payment) and their implications and lead cross‑functional work to implement new compliance and reporting processes and to evidence compliance.
- Lead end‑to‑end contract management of key UK public sector contracts (including the UK Government Matrix Contract for Workday).
- Support public sector growth across EMEA and put in place standardised processes and playbooks that support effective, compliant public sector sales in key EMEA markets while identifying and implementing best practices, tools, and guidance to strengthen public sector contract management across UK & EMEA.
About You
Basic Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in contract management, commercial management, or similar, with significant focus on working with public sector contracts.
- Proven track record building and improving contract management systems and processes, including compliance and audit readiness.
- Strong understanding of UK public sector procurement and how policy translates into practical contractual and reporting requirements.
Other Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience).
- Familiarity with themes such as social value, sustainability, wellbeing, modern slavery, and prompt payment, and experience embedding these into frameworks.
Flexible Work
Workday promotes a flexible work model. Employees spend at least 50% of their time each quarter in the office or in the field. Roles may be remote but can come together in offices as needed.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Workday is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, mental or physical disability, national origin, protected family care or medical leave status, race, religion (including beliefs and practices or the absence thereof), sexual orientation, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. Further, pursuant to applicable local ordinances, Workday will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Workday does not accept resumes from headhunters or placement agencies that have not signed a formal agreement with us.
