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 supportvendor 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