Contract Compliance Associate

£35,000 - £40,000 plus benefits

Reports to: Business Development Executive

Directorate: Research & Innovation

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 10 August :55

This vacancy may close earlier if a high volume of applications is received or once a suitable candidate is found, therefore we strongly recommend that you apply early to avoid disappointment. Please let us know if there is anything about the recruitment process that you would like to discuss, in particular if there are any changes or adjustments that would make it easier for you to apply. Please contact or as soon as possible.

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

Recruitment process: Competency based interview + task in relation to the role.

Interview date: 21/22 August l 2025

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are looking for a diligent and detail orientated individual to join the Business Development licensing team at CancerTools.org as a Contract Compliance Associate.

CancerTools.org, the research tools arm of CRUK, is a non-profit, global community of cancer researchers, academic institutes, and professional societies, with a shared mission to fund and accelerate cancer research. With a history of more than 40 years of managing and providing reagents to both academic and for-profit laboratories around the world, CancerTools.org has been steadfast in its mission of accelerating cancer research by making research tools widely and easily available.

The Contract Compliance Associate will have responsibility for the day-to-day management of all executed CancerTools.org agreements and commercial deals. Furthermore, you will be supporting both the External Innovation(ExI) and Out-Licensing (OL) teams to ensure our agreement and intellectual property database (held on Minuet) is accurate and up to date. You will also support with our royalties invoicing processes, where you will ensure incoming royalties are correct and work with colleagues internally to make sure invoices are raised to match.

We are looking for an experienced contracts, compliance or audit professional, who can bring with them experience working on compliance audits as well as hands on experience working on various reporting operations and procedures. You may have previously worked in the commercial licensing field or as a paralegal, whatever your background as long as you can demonstrate strong attention to detail, diligence and relevant contracting and reporting experience we would love to hear from you

What will I be doing?

• Carry out internal auditing to monitor financial compliance, data accuracy and other legal adherence measures (both internal and external).
• Reading and analysing various moderately complex contracts to identify reporting requirements.
• Under direction of your line manager and other members of the OL team, you will contact CancerTools' customers, suppliers and third parties to enforce financial and legal compliance.
• Utilising data systems and any other relevant information dashboards as necessary including customer relationship management systems, IP management systems, inventory management and finance systems.
• Actively communicate and build relationships with CancerTools customers and suppliers, specifically their finance and contract compliance departments.
• Represent the out-licensing function of CancerTools at external events and conferences to build customer relationships and new leads, including raising brand awareness of CancerTools as an organisation both internally and externally where necessary.

What are you looking for?

• Educated to BSc level in a relevant subject such as Business Administration or relevant experience.
• Previous working experience undertaking compliance audits.
• Good knowledge of key agreement principles.
• Experience with processing and manipulating large data sets (up to 300 lines of items) and using Excel for pivot tables, VLOOKUPs etc.
• Hands on experience of various reporting operations and procedures (e.g. royalty reporting or any form of revenue reporting)
• Broad knowledge and awareness of research tool types.
• Detail orientated.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously and can work independently and as an effective team player when required.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships and communicate without authority with senior personnel.

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism

Human: Act to have a positive impact on people

Together: Act inclusively and collaboratively

We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience we'd still love to hear from you.

What will I gain?

We create a working environment that supports your wellbeing and provide a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools. Our policies and processes enable you to improve your work-life balance, take positive steps in your career and achieve your personal wellbeing goals.

You can explore our benefits by visiting our careers web page.

How do I apply?

We operate an anonymised shortlisting process in our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion. CVs are required for all applications; but we won't be able to view them until we invite you for an interview. Instead, we ask you to complete the work history section of the online application form for us to be able to assess you fairly and objectively.

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