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Job Summary
The IT Vendor Manager is responsible for enabling effective sourcing decisions, conducting partnership reviews, and developing relationships with IT suppliers to ensure the delivery of high-quality and cost-effective IT products and services. This role focuses on supplier relationship management, contract administration, supplier partnering and escalations, and commercial and governance processes. The IT Vendor Manager works closely with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to drive value, compliance, and continuous improvement.
Primary Responsibilities
Contract Management
* Administer and maintain supplier contracts, ensuring compliance with key terms and obligations.
* Conduct contract renewals and amendments.
* Demonstrate expertise in commercial principles, evaluating and interpreting commercial terms, pricing structures, and cost frameworks to secure optimal value.
* Identify opportunities for cost and value optimisation and risk management within supplier contracts and partnerships.
* Assist in negotiations to deliver advantageous commercial results for the organisation.
* Prepare concise financial and commercial propositions to support informed decision-making.
Market Assessment of New Suppliers and/or Solutions
* Support the procurement and commissioning of IT products and services, ensuring compliance with company policies and standards.
* Support in evaluating supplier options and participate in supplier selection, onboarding, and offboarding processes.
* Facilitate market assessments to identify and evaluate potential new IT suppliers and solutions, including supplier benchmarking and audits.
* Analyse market intelligence to support sourcing decisions and ensure alignment with organisational needs.
* Facilitate supplier due diligence, including capability, risk, and value assessments.
* Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders.
* Consistently conduct and evaluate supplier partnership reviews to ensure the supplier remains a viable partner and meets agreed standards including financial stability, compliance with contracts and regulations, quality of goods or materials supplied, delivery timelines and reliability and risk assessment.
* Address non-performance issues arising from supplier partnership reviews and maintain a balanced and competitive supplier eco system.
* Build and maintain effective working relationships with IT suppliers and strategic partners, encouraging collaboration and service improvement.
* Escalate material supplier performance issues, risks, or disputes arising from supplier service delivery and support resolution.
* Collaborate with internal business and IT stakeholders to understand their requirements, and be the conduit with the suppliers to enable and drive business outcomes.
Innovation and Continuous Improvement
* Facilitate access to supplier innovation and contribute to the identification and adoption of new technologies, products, or services.
Financial and Compliance Support
* Support IT budgeting, forecasting, and financial management of supplier contracts.
* Ensure compliance with relevant governance, legal, and regulatory requirements.
Experience, Qualifications, Technical Requirements
* Experience in IT vendor management, ideally within a complex or multi-supplier environment.
* Experience in IT contract management - negotiation of terms & conditions, renewals, contract changes, etc.
* Strong communication, commercially astute, and relationship-building skills.
* Working knowledge of the IT industry and technology suppliers.
* Familiarity with supplier partnering and performance escalations management
* Educated to degree level or equivalent professional experience.
* IT Foundation accreditation.
What we offer at Taylor Wimpey
At Taylor Wimpey, we are committed to enabling you to make a home with us. Our work is not just about building homes; it's about doing work that matters, making a positive impact on the lives of our customers and the communities we serve.
We enjoy many benefits as standard, including excellent retail discounts, company funded life insurance and private healthcare, and access to a quality pension scheme with company contributions. We also offer our discounted house purchase scheme, car leasing scheme and share plans, as well as the opportunity to tailor your benefit package to suit your needs with options such as buying extra annual leave or adding dependants to your benefit cover. Our total reward offer works perfectly with our culture, we are a welcoming community where everyone can feel at home.
We create a home to your future by providing opportunities for growth and development. We offer industry leading professional training and development, which supports you to unlock your potential and fulfil your career and personal goals in a variety of opportunities and environments. We look to develop our people in the skills and areas they are most interested in, leveraging your qualities and appreciating your unique competencies, skills and expertise that, when we come together, make this a great place to work.
If you want to do work that matters and build a career that lasts, make a home at Taylor Wimpey.
Inclusivity Statement
As a proud Disability Confident Employer, Taylor Wimpey is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us during the application process that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.
Internal Applicants:
Please inform your line manager if you wish to apply for this role.
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