About the Role
A Snapshot of Your Day
Partner and provider management supports the evaluation and selection of suppliers, concluding contracts with them, ensuring that services consumed meet or exceed agreed service levels, and managing associated risks. It ensures that the organization’s suppliers are managed appropriately to support the seamless provision of quality products and services. To strengthen our team, we are looking for an IT Contract Manager.
How You'll Make an Impact
- Support negotiations of IT frame contracts and individual IT contracts with suppliers, including assistance with Digital Core RFx processes, aligning with all internal stakeholders.
- Contribute to contract reviews to optimize existing DC contracts with suppliers and enhance negotiation positions.
- Develop and maintain standards for contracts, including templates.
- Provide guidance on Statements of Work, Service Level Agreements, and Key Performance Indicators to demand owners
- Manage disputes and claim processes, including reporting of vendor KPIs.
- Act as the single point of contact for contract-related topics, such as interpretation of contracts for claim management, governance, and escalation procedures.
- Build and sustain relationships with strategic suppliers.
- Initiate necessary contract changes after signature.
- Perform periodic contract content reviews (annually) and advise on necessary changes, such as expiration or model updates.
What You Bring
- Expertise in IT Contract Management: Practical knowledge in IT Contract Management with IT suppliers.
- Negotiation Skills: Expertise in negotiating IT contracts, preferably with suppliers.
- Risk Identification and Management: Advanced skills in identifying, describing, quantifying, and assessing risks in IT contracts.
- Expert knowledge of English, including language used in IT contracts. German is an additional benefit.
- Communication: Competency in excellent communication, enthusiasm, and the ability to engage with the audience.
- Decision Making: Advanced skills in choosing the best course of action through effective decision making.
- 5+ years of work experience in the IT field, preferably in IT Contract Management or IT Procurement.
- Experience in multiple business fields, such as Controlling, is advantageous.
- Knowledge of the entire IT contract lifecycle.
- General understanding of various IT technologies, IT services, IT projects, and their cost structure.
- Master’s degree, preferably in Economics, Law, or Information Technology.
Your opportunities for personal growth
- The opportunity to engage in an exciting environment on challenging projects
- Strong professional support and working with colleagues around the world
- Professional development opportunities within the company
- To be part of a growing function with a dynamic, informal and inspiring working environment in a position that entails a large responsibility
Who is Siemens Energy?
At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.
Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.
Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo
Our Commitment to Diversity
Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences
Rewards and Benefits
- Your lunch with meal tickets
- Keep your brain fit with our trainings
- Special for books lovers - Bookster
- Stay safe and healthy with our medical subscription
- Think about your future too with Private Pension Pilon III
- Look after yourself with our Wellbeing Initiatives
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