Ensure that crucial IT suppliers contribute to an accessible, safe, and future-proof city. Traffic systems, bridges, tunnels, parking, and digital innovations in public spaces: a government organization relies on reliable IT. As a contract and supplier manager, you ensure that suppliers fulfill their agreements and that their services continue to meet the city's needs.
You manage complex IT contracts with significant financial interests. In doing so, you not only monitor performance, costs, and risks but also build strong relationships with suppliers and internal clients. You follow developments in the IT market and translate them into opportunities and advice for the organization. You primarily focus on IT services for the Physical Domain.
Think of applications for traffic guidance, bridges and tunnels, digital innovations, parking, long-term lease, and smart solutions in public spaces.
What you do
- Manage the performance, quality, costs, and risks of IT suppliers
- Monitor complex contracts and agreements made
- Advise internal clients on suppliers, contracts, and market developments
- Prepare and conduct tactical supplier discussions
- Analyze bottlenecks and initiate improvement measures
- Contribute to contract extensions, procurement processes, and European tenders
- Collaborate with colleagues in contract management, service level management, software asset management, and IT sourcing
What they ask You are a strong discussion partner who can connect different interests. You maintain an overview, ask critical questions, and convert complex information into clear advice and concrete agreements. When performance lags, you take initiative and adjust without losing sight of collaboration.
Profile
- University-level work and thinking, preferably with a background in IT, business administration, or a similar field
- Three to five years of relevant experience in contract and supplier management
- Experience with complex IT contracts and IT services
- Excellent communication skills in Dutch and English
- Knowledge of or interest in licensing structures and SaaS and cloud models
- Preferably, experience within a political-administrative organization
You are solution-oriented, results-driven, environmentally aware, and convincing in your advice.
Practical
The organization and chain are in transition, offering the opportunity to innovate and push boundaries. In short, a dynamic work environment and a responsible and versatile role with ample room for professional and personal development. You will receive various facilities and the opportunity to work where it best suits at that moment. Inclusion in the ABP pension fund with a favorable pension scheme, where the organization pays 70% of your pension and a monthly contribution to health insurance.
An individual choice budget (IKB) worth 17.05% on top of your salary, which you can use as desired for, for example, extra leave or salary. Opportunity to accrue compensatory leave. The option to exchange Easter Monday and/or Whit Monday for another religious, cultural, or national holiday or commemoration day. Various training and development opportunities.
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