9 Lead Negotiator jobs in the United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an on-site client team, ensuring seamless delivery against agreed performance and savings targets.
• Build and sustain trusted client relationships, deeply understanding their business requirements and market data environment.
• Lead contract negotiations and strategic sourcing initiatives with MDS vendors to secure optimal commercial terms and alignment with client objectives.
• Drive MDS initiatives including demand management, cost optimization, and process efficiency programs.
• Provide expert guidance on licensing, contract compliance, and best practices in vendor management.
• Oversee market data inventories, ordering and cancellation workflows, and invoice validation processes to ensure financial and operational accuracy.
• Maintain industry awareness to identify innovation and displacement opportunities in the MDS landscape.
• Deliver accurate reports and analyses to support strategic decision-making and performance tracking.
• Ensure full compliance with corporate sourcing standards, tools, and governance processes.

Your Profile

• University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working with market data vendors and services , ideally within financial services, procurement, or consulting.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with proven success influencing senior executives.
• Deep understanding of sourcing tools, vendor management systems, and market data workflows.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience managing complex vendor portfolios and leading teams across multiple locations.
• Desirable: familiarity with UK contract law and market data licensing models.
• Proactive, adaptable, and highly collaborative team player with a passion for driving efficiency and value.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an on-site client team, ensuring seamless delivery against agreed performance and savings targets.
• Build and sustain trusted client relationships, deeply understanding their business requirements and market data environment.
• Lead contract negotiations and strategic sourcing initiatives with MDS vendors to secure optimal commercial terms and alignment with client objectives.
• Drive MDS initiatives including demand management, cost optimization, and process efficiency programs.
• Provide expert guidance on licensing, contract compliance, and best practices in vendor management.
• Oversee market data inventories, ordering and cancellation workflows, and invoice validation processes to ensure financial and operational accuracy.
• Maintain industry awareness to identify innovation and displacement opportunities in the MDS landscape.
• Deliver accurate reports and analyses to support strategic decision-making and performance tracking.
• Ensure full compliance with corporate sourcing standards, tools, and governance processes.

Your Profile

• University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working with market data vendors and services , ideally within financial services, procurement, or consulting.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with proven success influencing senior executives.
• Deep understanding of sourcing tools, vendor management systems, and market data workflows.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience managing complex vendor portfolios and leading teams across multiple locations.
• Desirable: familiarity with UK contract law and market data licensing models.
• Proactive, adaptable, and highly collaborative team player with a passion for driving efficiency and value.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage an on-site client team, ensuring seamless delivery against agreed performance and savings targets.
• Build and sustain trusted client relationships, deeply understanding their business requirements and market data environment.
• Lead contract negotiations and strategic sourcing initiatives with MDS vendors to secure optimal commercial terms and alignment with client objectives.
• Drive MDS initiatives including demand management, cost optimization, and process efficiency programs.
• Provide expert guidance on licensing, contract compliance, and best practices in vendor management.
• Oversee market data inventories, ordering and cancellation workflows, and invoice validation processes to ensure financial and operational accuracy.
• Maintain industry awareness to identify innovation and displacement opportunities in the MDS landscape.
• Deliver accurate reports and analyses to support strategic decision-making and performance tracking.
• Ensure full compliance with corporate sourcing standards, tools, and governance processes.

Your Profile

• University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’s) in Business, Economics, Finance, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience working with market data vendors and services , ideally within financial services, procurement, or consulting.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills, with proven success influencing senior executives.
• Deep understanding of sourcing tools, vendor management systems, and market data workflows.
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience managing complex vendor portfolios and leading teams across multiple locations.
• Desirable: familiarity with UK contract law and market data licensing models.
• Proactive, adaptable, and highly collaborative team player with a passion for driving efficiency and value.

Lead - Infrastructure Funding Negotiator - OX1 1NDNumber of Positions: 1Contract Type: PermanentSalary: £54495 - £57864Working Hours: 37Location: OxfordshireBusiness Unit: Economy & Place

About Us

Oxfordshire County Council is committed to delivering services and infrastructure that supports thriving communities, sustainable growth, and a high quality of life for our residents. The Infrastructure Negotiation Team plays a vital role in creating successful communities by negotiating and securing in a legal agreement the financial contributions or delivery of infrastructure required to mitigate the impact of new development. 

We are proud of our collaborative, forward-thinking culture, where people are empowered to bring their expertise to the table and make a tangible difference.

Whether working from County Hall in Oxford or remotely, our teams are supported through agile working practices that reflect the diverse needs of our workforce and the communities we serve.

About the Role

As a Lead Negotiator your primary objective will be to secure in a s106 legal agreement the financial and non-financial obligations that will be used to put in place the identified mitigation required to address the impact of new development, ensuring they are compliant with Community Infrastructure Levy Regulations. Your role will require you to lead on negotiating the terms of a s106 legal agreement in discussion with the developer, the local planning authority and other interested parties. You will provide professional advice on s106 matters throughout the development cycle, from the local planning stage through to pre-application discussions to the drafting and completion of legal agreements. You will work on strategic sites and the most complex development sites and represent the Council at planning appeals. The job entails dealing effectively with a range of stakeholders working collaboratively with colleagues across county services and externally, working pro-actively with local planning authorities and developers and landowners. 

About you

You will have extensive knowledge and comprehensive understanding of s106 legislation and practices and have significant experience of negotiating planning obligations. You will be able to work independently within a small team with responsibility for leading on large strategic and other major development sites. The s106 process can be lengthy and complex and you will have a portfolio of sites to manage so you will be highly organised and have a proactive approach to your work and the ability to manage multiple tasks, working to demanding deadlines. Strong communication skills are essential, as you’ll be working closely with a range of interested parties - internal teams and external partners. 

Rewards and benefits

• Culture of flexible and agile working;
• Technology to support agile working, where role permits;
• 30 days holiday p.a. plus bank holidays (Increasing to 32 days after 10 years’ service);
• Option to ‘buy’ additional holiday;
• Employee Assistance Programme including access to health and wellbeing support;
• Membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme, with an employer’s contribution of up to 19.9%;
• Enhanced family friendly policies;
• Local and national discounts for shopping and travel;
• Great learning and development opportunities to support your ongoing development.

Our commitment to:
 Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

At Oxfordshire County Council we are proud of our diverse workforce. Everyone is accepted for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, or on maternity or family leave. We have a number of staff network groups which provide peer support, education and safe spaces for all.

Our commitment to:
Guaranteed Interview Schemes

As a Disability Confident employer, we guarantee an interview for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the job. We also guarantee interviews to care leavers who have completed further education and who meet the essential criteria for the job. For those leaving care without any further education, we guarantee an interview for our apprenticeships. We are also committed to helping and supporting those transitioning from HM Armed Forces to civilian life and guarantee an interview for those demonstrating the essential criteria for the role, within three years of leaving the service.

Our commitment to:
Safeguarding

Oxfordshire County Council are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all employees, workers and volunteers to share this commitment. We will ensure that all our recruitment and selection practices reflect these commitments.

Our commitment to:
Flexible Working

We are open to discussions about flexible working, which can include flexi-time, part time working, job sharing, nine-day fortnights and annualised hours, depending on the requirements of the role and the service.

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Vendor Performance Management Lead
Location
London
Business Area
Accounting and Finance
Ref #

**Description & Requirements**
The energy of a newsroom, the pace of a trading floor, the buzz of a recent tech breakthrough; we work hard, and we work fast - while keeping up the quality and accuracy we're known for. It's what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. Our culture is wide open, just like our spaces. We bring out the best in each other through collaboration. Through our countless volunteer projects, we also help network with the communities around us, too. You can do amazing work here. Work you couldn't do anywhere else. It's up to you to make it happen.
**What's the role?**
We're seeking a highly experienced and strategic individual contributor to lead all aspects of **Vendor Performance Management (VPM)** reporting into Global Procurement. This person will design, implement, and continuously evolve our global VPM framework. The role is critical in driving optimal vendor partnerships, ensuring contractual compliance, and proactively identifying opportunities for efficiency and value creation.
The successful candidate will be a visionary leader, skilled at fostering collaboration, leveraging advanced analytics, and influencing across all levels of the organization to deliver best-in-class vendor performance. This is a high-impact role, central to strengthening operational resilience and maximizing value from our vendor ecosystem.
**We'll trust you to:**
· **Lead the VPM Program** :
o Serve as the primary program lead for the global Vendor Performance Management framework, covering performance metrics, governance, communications, change management, and operational execution across all procurement categories.
o Develop and mature the VPM strategy to align with overall business objectives and risk management frameworks.
· **Drive Vendor Relationships & Performance** :
o Manage and cultivate strategic relationships with key enterprise vendors, acting as a critical escalation point.
o Facilitate high-level business reviews and planning sessions to promote innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
o Establish and monitor KPIs and SLAs focused on value creation, risk mitigation, and operational excellence.
o Identify and mitigate vendor-related risks to ensure a resilient vendor ecosystem.
o Integrate VPM with the broader operational resilience program where needed.
· **Apply Analytical Insight & Enable Continuous Improvement** :
o Deploy advanced VPM technologies, data visualization tools, and analytics to derive actionable insights that inform decision-making.
o Develop and present KPI reporting to demonstrate program effectiveness to internal and external stakeholders.
o Partner with Vendor Risk Management (VRM) and Enterprise Risk Management (ERIM) on financial due diligence, incident management, and audit requirements.
o Build and manage reports to meet controls and regulatory needs (DORA, UK CTP).
o Present vendor risks and corrective action plans to senior business leaders.
o Research and integrate industry best practices to continuously enhance vendor performance management.
**You'll need to have:**
· Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or related field (Master's strongly preferred).
· 7+ years of progressive experience in vendor performance management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain management, with at least 2+ years in a lead role.
· Proven experience in designing, implementing, and managing VPM frameworks and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) programs.
· Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to interpret complex data and drive actionable insights.
· Advanced proficiency in MS Office; experience with VPM software, procurement platforms, and BI tools (e.g., QLIK Sense, Power BI).
· Strong commercial acumen with deep understanding of contracts and SLAs.
· Familiarity with Vendor Contract Management Systems (Icertis a plus).
· Excellent communication, negotiation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
· Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with strong attention to detail.
**We'd love to see:**
· Experience engaging with senior executives and regulators through reports and corrective action plans.
· Demonstrated success integrating VPM frameworks with broader risk and operational resilience programs.
· Passion for leveraging vendor partnerships to foster innovation, efficiency, and value creation.
Bloomberg is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email

**Global Clinical Project Manager - Vendor Management Expert - Single Sponsor (Novartis)**
Are you an experienced Vendor Management professional looking to make an impact in global clinical trials?
We are seeking a **Global Clinical Project Manager - Vendor Management Expert** to join our **Single Sponsor Department** , dedicated exclusively to **Novartis** . In this role, you 'll become an expert in **Vendor Management** for global clinical trials across all phases (Phase I-IV), ensuring seamless execution from study start-up through close-out.
**What We're Looking For**
To excel in this role, you should bring:
+ **Global Clinical Project Management experience**
+ **Strong Vendor Management expertise:** Central lab, eCOA, IRT, ECG, Imaging, Ancillaries and/or Patient Recruitment & Retention with experience in global clinical trials. (must have experience managing at least 2 of these vendors)
+ **Deep understanding of clinical operations processes** and vendor service categories.
+ **Excellent project management skills** to drive efficiency and collaboration
+ **Strong communication and influencing abilities** to partner effectively across functions.
+ **Proven ability to manage risk and performance issues** in a fast-paced environment
**What You'll Do**
As a **Global Clinical Project Manager - Vendor Management Expert** , you will be responsible for ensuring vendor deliverables are met with **quality and efficiency** at the trial level. Your key responsibilities include:
+ **Vendor Oversight & Coordination** - Manage vendor activities across the study lifecycle, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables.
+ **Study Start-Up Support** - Oversee vendor deliverables during study initiation, ensuring smooth onboarding and activation.
+ **Risk & Performance Management** - Track vendor performance, identify risks, and escalate issues as needed.
+ **Site Readiness & Activation** - Drive vendor activities to support site activations and ensure study milestones are met.
+ **Study Close-Out** - Coordinate vendor deliverables that support Database Lock and study closure.
**What You'll Deliver**
+ **Vendor service excellence at the study level**
+ **Vendor onboarding and performance tracking**
+ **KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and KQI (Key Quality Indicator) dashboards to monitor vendor effectiveness**
+ **Site readiness monitoring and documentation**
+ **Risk mapping with contingency planning**
+ **Vendor cost control and oversight**
**Please note this role is not eligible for the UK visa sponsorship.**
This is an exciting opportunity to play a **critical role in global clinical trials** , ensuring vendor excellence and operational success. If you're ready to take on a **high-impact role** with a leading sponsor, we'd love to hear from you!
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create connections that accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments. Everything we do is part of a journey to improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.
To get there, we seek out diverse talent with curious minds and a relentless commitment to innovation and impact. No matter your role, everyone at IQVIA contributes to our shared goal of helping customers improve the lives of patients everywhere. Thank you for your interest in growing your career with us.
EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

**Global Clinical Project Manager - Vendor Management Expert - Single Sponsor (Novartis)**
Are you an experienced Vendor Management professional looking to make an impact in global clinical trials?
We are seeking a **Global Clinical Project Manager - Vendor Management Expert** to join our **Single Sponsor Department** , dedicated exclusively to **Novartis** . In this role, you 'll become an expert in **Vendor Management** for global clinical trials across all phases (Phase I-IV), ensuring seamless execution from study start-up through close-out.
**What We're Looking For**
To excel in this role, you should bring:
+ **Global Clinical Project Management experience**
+ **Strong Vendor Management expertise:** Central lab, eCOA, IRT, ECG, Imaging, Ancillaries and/or Patient Recruitment & Retention with experience in global clinical trials. (must have experience managing at least 2 of these vendors)
+ **Deep understanding of clinical operations processes** and vendor service categories.
+ **Excellent project management skills** to drive efficiency and collaboration
+ **Strong communication and influencing abilities** to partner effectively across functions.
+ **Proven ability to manage risk and performance issues** in a fast-paced environment
**What You'll Do**
As a **Global Clinical Project Manager - Vendor Management Expert** , you will be responsible for ensuring vendor deliverables are met with **quality and efficiency** at the trial level. Your key responsibilities include:
+ **Vendor Oversight & Coordination** - Manage vendor activities across the study lifecycle, ensuring timely and high-quality deliverables.
+ **Study Start-Up Support** - Oversee vendor deliverables during study initiation, ensuring smooth onboarding and activation.
+ **Risk & Performance Management** - Track vendor performance, identify risks, and escalate issues as needed.
+ **Site Readiness & Activation** - Drive vendor activities to support site activations and ensure study milestones are met.
+ **Study Close-Out** - Coordinate vendor deliverables that support Database Lock and study closure.
**What You'll Deliver**
+ **Vendor service excellence at the study level**
+ **Vendor onboarding and performance tracking**
+ **KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and KQI (Key Quality Indicator) dashboards to monitor vendor effectiveness**
+ **Site readiness monitoring and documentation**
+ **Risk mapping with contingency planning**
+ **Vendor cost control and oversight**
**Please note this role is not eligible for the UK visa sponsorship.**
This is an exciting opportunity to play a **critical role in global clinical trials** , ensuring vendor excellence and operational success. If you're ready to take on a **high-impact role** with a leading sponsor, we'd love to hear from you!
IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create intelligent connections to accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments to help improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide. Learn more at is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries. We create connections that accelerate the development and commercialization of innovative medical treatments. Everything we do is part of a journey to improve patient outcomes and population health worldwide.
To get there, we seek out diverse talent with curious minds and a relentless commitment to innovation and impact. No matter your role, everyone at IQVIA contributes to our shared goal of helping customers improve the lives of patients everywhere. Thank you for your interest in growing your career with us.
EEO Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled

Team Lead - Vendor Risk Management - Chief Risk Office
Location
London
Business Area
Legal, Compliance, and Risk
Ref #

**Description & Requirements**
The energy of a newsroom, the pace of a trading floor, the buzz of a recent tech breakthrough; we work hard, and we work fast-while keeping up the quality and accuracy we're known for. It's what keeps us inventing and reinventing, all the time. Our culture is wide open, just like our spaces. We bring out the best in each other through collaboration. Through our countless volunteer projects, we also help network with the communities around us, too. You can do amazing work here. Work you couldn't do anywhere else. It's up to you to make it happen.
Vendor Risk Management (VRM) is part of the Chief Risk Office (CRO) and responsible for assisting Bloomberg departments and select subsidiaries of Bloomberg LP in the selection, assessment, mitigation and continuous monitoring of risks introduced by vendors and other third-party service providers.
**What's the Role?**
We are seeking a Team Leader, Vendor Risk Management, to guide and develop a team of vendor risk professionals while driving both the execution of vendor assessments and the strategic advancement of our Vendor Risk program. You will manage a portfolio of vendor engagements, oversee critical risk assessments, and help design, refine, and implement frameworks that strengthen Bloomberg's third-party risk resilience.
This role requires balancing hands-on oversight of operational activities with strategic advisory responsibilities, ensuring Bloomberg departments and subsidiaries can confidently manage vendor risks throughout the vendor lifecycle.
**We'll Trust You To:**
Operational Leadership
- Supervise and mentor a team of Vendor Risk Managers, ensuring high-quality delivery of assessments, monitoring, and reporting.
- Oversee execution of inherent risk assessments, vendor due diligence, control testing, and remediation tracking.
- Maintain accuracy and completeness of vendor and engagement inventories, ensuring risk profiles are current and actionable.
- Guide the team in conducting due diligence across risk domains (information security, privacy, operational resilience, concentration, regulatory, geographic).
- Monitor industry trends and regulatory updates to ensure operational assessments reflect current risk landscapes.
Strategic & Advisory Responsibilities
- Contribute to the ongoing design, enhancement, and implementation of Bloomberg's Vendor Risk Management framework.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, including business leaders, CISO, Legal, Compliance, and Enterprise Risk, on third-party risk exposure and mitigation strategies.
- Provide risk insights and recommendations that balance business objectives with security and resilience requirements.
- Develop and deliver actionable, executive-ready risk reporting to inform decision-making across departments.
- Represent Vendor Risk in risk committees, working groups, and cross-functional initiatives.
- Help shape Bloomberg's response to emerging regulatory requirements (e.g., DORA, EU AI Act, GDPR) and evolving third-party risk management expectations.
**You'll Need to Have:**
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Business Management, or equivalent industry experience.
- 10+* years of experience in Risk Management, Information Security, Technology Audit, or related fields, with at least 4 years in a leadership or supervisory capacity.
- Proven experience managing and mentoring teams to deliver high-quality risk assessments and projects.
- Strong understanding of Cloud Computing risks and third-party service provider oversight.
- Familiarity with key frameworks (NIST 800-53, ISO/IEC 27001/2, COBIT, HITRUST, PCI DSS, CSA, CIS CSC).
- Deep knowledge of Data Privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA) and operational resilience regulations (DORA).
- Experience leveraging Vendor Risk Assessment frameworks and tools (SIG, VSAQ, etc.).
- Ability to balance operational oversight with strategic influence, making complex business/risk trade-offs.
- Senior-level written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present to executive audiences.
- Industry certifications (CISSP, CISA, CISM, CTPRP, CIPT/CIPP, GIAC, etc.).
*Please note we use years of experience as a guide but we certainly will consider applications from all candidates who are able to demonstrate the skills necessary for the role.
**We'd Love to See:**
- Experience in building and scaling a vendor risk team or function.
- Familiarity with supplier agreements, contractual terms, and service level agreements.
- Experience developing and using operational performance metrics to measure vendor risk effectiveness.
- Expertise in cloud-based IT architectures and related security practices.
**If this sounds like you:**
Apply if you think we're a good match. We'll get in touch to let you know what the next steps are, but in the meantime feel free to have a look at this: is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, genetic predisposition or carrier status, marital status, national or ethnic origin, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, sexual and other reproductive health decisions, parental or caring status, physical or mental disability, pregnancy or parental leave, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, or any other classification protected by applicable law.
Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email