Category Manager STEMEd
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About us
UCL is London's leading multidisciplinary university, bringing together world-class research, teaching, and innovation to tackle some of the world's most complex challenges. With a global community of over 42,000 students and 13,000 staff from more than 150 countries, our work consistently shapes policy, advances science, and changes lives.
Our Commercial and Procurement function plays a critical role in enabling this impact. We provide expert, agile commercial solutions that support UCL's Sustainable Procurement Strategy and unlock investment in the university's long-term strategic vision. Working outside the constraints of UK public procurement regulations, we offer a dynamic, flexible environment where commercial expertise genuinely influences outcomes.
About the role
Please note we will consider part-time for the right candidate for this role.
We're looking for an ambitious, solutions-driven Category Manager to join our Commercial & Procurement Research Services team, supporting UCL's STEM research portfolio from April 2026.
In this role, you'll lead strategic procurement and commercial contracting for high-profile, grant-funded research projects across medical sciences, engineering, social sciences, and beyond - work that often makes national and international headlines.
You'll partner closely with researchers, legal colleagues, and suppliers to deliver pragmatic, risk-aware procurement solutions. A significant part of the role focuses on reviewing, drafting, and negotiating complex research agreements, managing supplier performance, and enabling compliant, commercially robust research activity at pace.
This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced procurement or commercial professional - or a clinical project or contract manager - who enjoys working with complexity and wants to see their expertise directly support ground breaking research. Job-share arrangements are welcomed.
About you
You are commercially astute, confident working with contracts and motivated by making a meaningful impact. You thrive in complex and fast-moving environments and enjoy working through ambiguity to find balanced, effective solutions. Contracts and negotiations are a core part of your skillset, and you are comfortable taking ownership of complex discussions while working collaboratively with legal, regulatory and academic colleagues.
You bring strong experience in commercial contracting, including hands-on involvement in reviewing, drafting or managing agreements, and you understand how to balance legal, commercial and compliance considerations. You are a confident negotiator with a strong sense of risk and a clear view of what makes a contract robust and effective. You are organised, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously, and skilled at building trusted relationships with a wide range of stakeholders. Above all, you have a genuine interest in supporting science and research, and you are driven by enabling high-impact work through well-structured, commercially sound agreements.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
* 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
* Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
* Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
* Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
* Immigration loan
* Relocation scheme for certain posts
* On-Site nursery
* On-site gym
* Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
* Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
* Discounted medical insurance
Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/reward-and-benefits to find out more.
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent.We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.
We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce.
These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.