Professional Tasks You will manage the full vendor relationship lifecycle from tendering till offboarding for a selected subset of the partner portfolio. You will drive the renewal and negotiation of technology related contracts together with procurement and legal. You will be an active part of the team - bring your expertise and ideas to the table. You will support and invest into our constant drive for the best-in-class vendor and contract management processes, tools and team. You will identify opportunities to improve efficiencies in expenditure. You will manage relationships with vendors and drive for value and process effectiveness. You will ensure a holistic view on vendor relationship and performance for strategic vendors. You will support in fostering the IT Governance principles. You will align your activities with your peers in Vendor Performance Management and in the Procurement teams. Your qualifications You have a Master/Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, engineering, or a related discipline. You can demonstrate in addition to the above, at least three, ideally five, years' experience in the field of Vendor and Contract Management or a related discipline. You have proven experience in legal knowledge and background allowing you to understand complex legal topics and giving you the ability to liaise with specialized legal teams. You have proven negotiation skills and a deep IT vendor market knowledge. You have the ability to bridge communications between the IT organization and its business customers, with a focus on developing an understanding of what the IT organization and its vendors can deliver and how that can be measured most effectively. You can demonstrate interpersonal relationship strengths for managing disputes and driving change in vendor behaviors, creating a working environment where vendors receive incentives to change behaviors to meet performance goals. You are experienced to act as a business agent for an IT organization to negotiate pricing, drive value and to determine contract terms and conditions together with procurement and legal. You have excellent organizational skills, team player with bias for action and a strong work ethic. You are a self-starter with high analytical, problem-solving, planning, execution, as well as presentation and communication skills, the ability to meet deadlines, and a driver of innovation in your area of responsibility. You can demonstrate a very good strategic, solution and cost-oriented thinking. You consider yourself a great communicator, being fluent in English (German is a plus).
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