# NWLP Contract Manager

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for North West London Pathology.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** North West London Pathology
- **Location:** St Mary's Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Contracts manager
- **Salary:** £75,328 - £86,114 pa inclusive
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-10-26T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-10-12T15:23:18.282Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/North_West_London_Pathology/Contracts_Management/Contracts_Management-v8331385
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8331385?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.nwlpathology.nhs.uk/

## Job Content

### Job overview

We are an NHS partnership between Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. We are now one of the largest pathology providers in the UK. Our structure is based on a hub and spoke model providing pathology services at seven hospital sites across London.

Driven by visionary leadership, strategic investment and transformative initiatives, NWLP has grown into one of the UK’s most forward-thinking diagnostic service providers. We are recognised as pioneers in England for establishing one of the first fully integrated NHS pathology networks.

We are seeking an exceptional Contracts Manager to join our NWLP team and continue to shape the future of pathology services.

This role supports the contract management process for NWLP, to ensure delivery of Pathology that is high quality, better value for money and achieves NWLP and the owner Trust's objectives.

Successful delivery of this role involves ensuring contract management for all contract services by ensuring robust systems for proactive contract performance monitoring that enable activity and clinical quality indicators to be specified, monitored, under-performance acted upon and future procurement decisions to be made.

The successful candidate will contribute to the development of the NWLP/Imperial approach to: contracting; ensuring provider performance; and developing capability within the team.

### Main duties of the job

- This role supports the contract management process for NWLP, to ensure delivery of Pathology that is high quality, better value for money and achieves NWLP and the owner Trust’s wide objectives.
- Successful delivery of this role involves ensuring contract management for all contract services by ensuring robust systems for proactive contract performance monitoring that enable activity and clinical quality indicators to be specified, monitored, under performance acted upon and future procurement decisions to be made.
- Contribute to the development of the NWLP/Imperial approach to contracting and provider performance and developing capability within the team.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

## Person Specification

### Education

**Essential**

- Professional knowledge, plus additional specialist, management knowledge acquired through training and experience to Masters level or equivalent relevant experience.

### Experience

**Essential**

- Present highly complex, sometimes contentious information to approximately 500x contract stakeholders. Persuade senior managers of the necessity of change when appropriate.
- Adequate sight and dexterity to use standard office equipment.

### Skills/Abilities

**Essential**

- Ability to use modern office software and to be trained to use other specialist software.
- Highly developed interpersonal skills, with ability to relate to a broad range of professions and levels of seniority.
- Ability to analyse performance of Specialist service providers.
- Set strategic objectives and advice in areas where expert opinions differ.

## Documents

- [jd (pdf, 593.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10654378)
- [functional requirements (pdf, 208.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10654379)

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