GlaxoSmithKline Services Unlimited Posted August 11, 2026

Contract Manager

UK – London – New Oxford Street, United Kingdom Full time
Procurement Manager

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About this opportunity

We create a place where people can grow, be their best, be safe, and feel welcome, valued and included. We offer a competitive salary, an annual bonus based on company performance, healthcare and wellbeing programmes , pension plan membership, and shares and savings programme .

Contract Manager - CPO & Supported Studies Contract Management Team

This role provides end-to-end contracting support for Investigator Initiated Studies (IIS), Supported Collaborative Studies (SCS) and other clinical agreements with academic institutions, networks, consortia and research organisations .

In this role you will

Demonstrate understanding of IIS, SCS and other supported studies agreement types and their application.

Draft, negotiate and finalize low to medium complexity IIS, SCS, CDAs, amendments, appendicies and related documents

Lead contract development activities and determine scope of contract requests and agreements.

Identify , facilitate and resolve business, legal, financial and risk-related contracting issues.

Perform fair market value assessments and support milestone payment development.

Track contract negotiations, approvals and documentation within centralized systems.

Partner with study delivery teams and stakeholders to ensure contracts are executed on time.

Promote GSK values and contribute to a collaborative, patient-focused culture.

Other duties as assigned

Why you?

Basic Qualifications & Skills:

We are looking for professionals with these required skills to achieve our goals:

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field.

Strong contract negotiation experience with academic institutions.

Knowledge of academic and clinical research contracting.

Experience drafting and negotiating IIS, SCS, CDA, CSA and amendment agreements.

Understanding of contract risks, mitigations and fair market value principles.

Experience supporting global clinical development activities.

Strong communication , prioritisation and stakeholder management skills.

Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.

Preferred Qualifications:

Global clinical research contracting experience.

Evidence generation and supported studies experience.

Strong analytical and reporting capability.

Please take a copy of the Job Description, as this will not be available post closure of the advert.

When applying for this role, please use the ‘cover letter’ of the online application or your CV to describe how you meet the competencies for this role, as outlined in the job requirements above. The information that you have provided in your cover letter and CV will be used to assess your application.

Closing date – 25/08/26

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Skills

Business Acumen, Contract Management, Influencing Without Authority, Interactive Storytelling, Negotiation, Problem Solving, Project Management, Sourcing Management, Stakeholder Management, Vendor Management

Why GSK?

Uniting science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together.

GSK is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We aim to positively impact the health of 2.5 billion people by the end of the decade, as a successful, growing company where people can thrive. We get ahead of disease by preventing and treating it with innovation in specialty medicines and vaccines. We focus on four therapeutic areas: respiratory, immunology and inflammation; oncology; HIV; and infectious diseases – to impact health at scale.

People and patients around the world count on the medicines and vaccines we make, so we’re committed to creating an environment where our people can thrive and focus on what matters most. Our culture of being ambitious for patients, accountable for impact and doing the right thing is the foundation for how, together, we deliver for patients, shareholders and our people.

GSK is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This ensures that all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, age, disability, genetic information (including family medical history), military service or any basis prohibited under federal, state or local law.

We believe in an agile working culture for all our roles. If flexibility is important to you, we encourage you to explore with our hiring team what the opportunities are.

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Please note should your enquiry not relate to adjustments, we will not be able to support you through these channels. However, we have created a  Recruitment FAQ guide. Click the link where you will find answers to multiple questions we receive

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Job details

Seniority
Manager
Function
Procurement
Therapeutic area
Not listed
Location
UK – London – New Oxford Street, United Kingdom
Employment type
Full time

How this role compares

Computed from every other active Procurement role in our database, not just this employer's listings.

We currently track 39 comparable Manager Procurement roles across 10 biopharma companies.

39Comparable roles tracked
37Currently active
10Companies hiring similar roles
11Countries represented

Salary context

3 of 39 peers report a salary range (USD, annualized)

Peers share this role's job function and a matching or adjacent seniority level -- not necessarily the same therapeutic area or country.

This roleSubject Not listed on this posting
Peer group range $151,800 – $176,800 (median $166,200)

Where these roles are based

Top locations among the 39 comparable roles

India9
Malaysia6
Spain6
United Kingdom4
United States4
Japan3

+ 5 more countries

Seniority mix

39 of 39 peers have a known seniority level

Manager36
Associate2
Associate Director1

Therapeutic area mix

0 of 39 peers have a known therapeutic area; the rest are genuinely unlabeled, not hidden

No peers with a known therapeutic area yet.

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The closest matches from our peer group, ranked by how similar they are, not how well you'd qualify for them -- treat this as market context, not a guaranteed shortlist; a weak match is labeled as one below.

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How we calculate "similar"

No black box, no LLM guesswork: a deterministic score built from four normalized attributes. Here's this role's own peer group at different match levels, so you can see the mechanism, not just the result.

Every comparison starts from the same 100-point budget: 25 for working in the same function, 40 for the same therapeutic area, 20 for the same or adjacent seniority, 15 for the same country. A dimension we can't confirm on both sides contributes nothing, never a guess, never a free pass.

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Unmatched or unknown dimensions score exactly the same: 0 points, never a partial guess. A role we know almost nothing about beyond its function bottoms out at 25%; it never inflates to 100% just because there's little to compare against. Seniority uses a defined ladder (Associate → Manager → Associate Director → Senior → Principal → Director → Senior Director → Executive/VP) so "Director" and "Senior Director" count as adjacent, but "Director" and "Executive/VP" do not.