Must Haves:ย
Experience with contract management, experience with major software vendors (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc), and experience working in a large multi-national company.ย
POSITION DESCRIPTION:ย
This person will supportย vendor contract management for the IT Vendor Management Office (VMO).ย These responsibilities include locating contracts, organizing contracts, identifying contract hierarchy and dependencies for each vendor, working with legal to analyze contracts, capturing and recording contract meta data, and communicating with stakeholders.ย
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POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:ย
Relationship Management:ย
Establish and maintain strong relationships with sourcing, legal, VMO colleagues and other applicable and global IT vendor stakeholdersย
Individual Accountability:ย
Learn how to navigate in contract repository solutions in order to efficiently locate and store vendor contractsย
Consolidate identified contracts in single repository leveraging consistent indexing solutionย
Identify and map contract dependencies and hierarchy for each applicable vendorย
Partner with legal to identify and record contract meta dataย
Manage weekly meetings and content for legal reviewย
Partner with VMO leadership team to review contract dataย
Perform other appropriate administrative and operation research to support contract managementย
Work closely with both direct and virtual global members of the VMO teamย
Ensure priorities are consistent with the overall vendor management strategyย
Ensure timely completion of projects and deliverablesย
Expected Leadership Behaviors:ย
Assume positive intent in othersย
Collaboration and build trusted and sustainable relationshipsย
Be accountableย
Model and encourage a strong sense of urgency and bias for actionย
Proficient at making fact-based decisionsย
ROLE SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS:ย
Moderate contract management experienceย
Moderate experience with IT vendorsย
Moderate knowledge of vendor management industry best practicesย
EDUCATION REQUIREDย
Relevant B.S. or BA degreeย
YEARS OF EXPERIENCEย
2-4 years with Bachelors or Basic Degree orย
1-2 years with Masters or other Advanced Degreeย
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GENERAL QUALIFICATIONSย
Strong people and communication skillsย
Moderate technical experience in infrastructure, software and hardware products and servicesย
Global experienceย
Ability to work collaboratively across all levels of an organization internationallyย
Able to work in a virtual organizationย
Adaptable and flexibleย
Manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet objectivesย
Strong problem solving and decision making skillsย
Presentation skills including the ability to translate technical information into business termsย
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PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTSย
Regularly required to be independently mobileย
Interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workersย
Travel independently to various Company's buildings/sites