Must Haves:
Experience with contract management, experience with major software vendors (Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, etc), and experience working in a large multi-national company.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
This person will support vendor contract management for the IT Vendor Management Office (VMO). 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.
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POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:
Relationship Management:
Establish and maintain strong relationships with sourcing, legal, VMO colleagues and other applicable and global IT vendor stakeholders
Individual Accountability:
Learn how to navigate in contract repository solutions in order to efficiently locate and store vendor contracts
Consolidate identified contracts in single repository leveraging consistent indexing solution
Identify and map contract dependencies and hierarchy for each applicable vendor
Partner with legal to identify and record contract meta data
Manage weekly meetings and content for legal review
Partner with VMO leadership team to review contract data
Perform other appropriate administrative and operation research to support contract management
Work closely with both direct and virtual global members of the VMO team
Ensure priorities are consistent with the overall vendor management strategy
Ensure timely completion of projects and deliverables
Expected Leadership Behaviors:
Assume positive intent in others
Collaboration and build trusted and sustainable relationships
Be accountable
Model and encourage a strong sense of urgency and bias for action
Proficient at making fact-based decisions
ROLE SPECIFIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Moderate contract management experience
Moderate experience with IT vendors
Moderate knowledge of vendor management industry best practices
EDUCATION REQUIRED
Relevant B.S. or BA degree
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
2-4 years with Bachelors or Basic Degree or
1-2 years with Masters or other Advanced Degree
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GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS
Strong people and communication skills
Moderate technical experience in infrastructure, software and hardware products and services
Global experience
Ability to work collaboratively across all levels of an organization internationally
Able to work in a virtual organization
Adaptable and flexible
Manage multiple priorities simultaneously and meet objectives
Strong problem solving and decision making skills
Presentation skills including the ability to translate technical information into business terms
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PHYSICAL JOB REQUIREMENTS
Regularly required to be independently mobile
Interact with a computer, and communicate with peers and co-workers
Travel independently to various Company's buildings/sites