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Legal Contracts Manager

Ref: npl-2528
NPL
Finance
Salary starting from £51,196 dependent on experience

The National Physical Laboratory’s (NPL) science helps save lives, protect the environment and enable citizens to feel safe and secure. For over a century, we have worked with industry to encourage innovation and translate scientific expertise into economic prosperity, skilled employment and improved quality of life.

 Who sets the standards, to ensure that anything that can be measured is done so with consistency and reliability? We do. Through our vital research, the National Physical Laboratory is helping support scientific and commercial innovations, international trade, environmental protection and health and wellbeing. And we’re finding more ways than ever in which to put our products and services to good use. As our Contract Manager, you’ll help us maximise income by managing and safeguarding our commercial interests. At NPL, we touch ordinary lives in extraordinary ways and you could too.

As part of the legal team at NPL you will be supporting all areas of the business and will be involved in the negotiation of a wide range of commercial contracts and collaborations. NPL works with companies in a number of cutting edge industries and are at the forefront of pioneering science in the UK. You will develop strong relationship with key stakeholders, both internal and external, and will need to be reactive to live issues as they develop.

Responsibilities include:

  • Draft, negotiate and advise on a wide variety of commercial and collaborative agreements.
  • Provide support to the business on any legal or compliance matters including supporting colleagues/teams throughout the organisation.
  • Develop and manage relationships with a variety of stakeholders in addition to scientists including the finance, procurement, project management, strategic business development and commercial functions.
Teddington, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
NPL
Finance
Salary starting from £51,196 dependent on experience
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