An experienced IT Contract Manager is sought for an organization within the energy sector. You will be responsible for managing, monitoring, and optimizing a broad portfolio of IT contracts and software licenses. The role operates at the intersection of IT, procurement, contract management, and business, ensuring that contractual agreements align with both functional needs and technical ambitions.
Software Asset Management, licensing models, tenders, and supplier management are important components of this assignment.
What you will do.
- Manage, monitor, and optimize IT contracts and software licenses.
- Ensure contractual agreements align with functional and technical needs.
- Advise on Software Asset Management (SAM), license management, and various licensing models.
- Optimize software usage and keep licensing costs manageable.
- Monitor contractual obligations and agreements.
- Identify contractual, financial, and operational risks and opportunities.
- Advise on compliant and cost-effective software deployment.
- Prepare and guide IT tender processes.
- Evaluate tenders and support supplier selections.
- Collaborate with procurement, suppliers, IT specialists, and business stakeholders.
- Connect commercial, contractual, and technical interests.
- Build and maintain professional supplier relationships.
- Manage contracts for various IT solutions, including cybersecurity, testing solutions, digital platforms, and technical applications.
- Contribute to the further professionalization of contract and license management.
Profile
- Demonstrable experience as an IT Contract Manager or in a similar role.
- Strong IT background and sufficient technical knowledge to understand complex IT contracts.
- Experience with software licenses and various licensing models.
- Knowledge and experience with Software Asset Management (SAM).
- Experience with IT tenders and guiding tender processes.
- Experience with contract and supplier management.
- Experience with monitoring contractual obligations, risks, and costs.
- Able to translate complex technical and contractual issues into concrete advice.
Competencies.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Commercially aware.
- Organizationally sensitive.
- Proactive.
- Results-oriented.
- Independent.
- Strong communication skills.
- Persuasive.
- Strong in stakeholder management.
- Negotiating skills.
- Connecting between business and IT.
Practical
You will play an important role within a complex digital organization that uses large quantities of business-critical software and IT services. With your expertise, you will ensure that contracts, licenses, and suppliers are professionally managed and that costs, compliance, and risks remain manageable.
- Responsibility for a broad and complex IT contract portfolio.
- Working at the intersection of IT, procurement, business, and suppliers.
- Ample room for optimization and professionalization.
- Involvement in strategic IT tenders.
- Longer project horizon with possibility of extension.
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