Nestlé Looking for IT Vendor Manager at Gurgaon, Haryana, India

Nestlé; Gurugram District; On-site; CHF 6,00,000 - 10,00,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading global food and beverage company as an IT Vendor Manager, where you will shape effective vendor management practices and strategies. This role is pivotal in ensuring optimal sourcing and risk management while collaborating with various internal teams. You will leverage your extensive experience in vendor relationships and contract negotiations to enhance service delivery and drive value across the organization. Embrace the opportunity to work in a dynamic, inclusive environment that values diversity and fosters professional growth. Be part of a team that is committed to enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.

Benefits

Dynamic inclusive international working environment

Opportunities across different businesses

Collaboration with diverse teams and cultures

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in IT contract negotiation and vendor management.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT management, engineering, or business preferred.

Responsibilities

• Deliver best-in-class IT products balancing value, cost, risk, and speed.
• Lead IT vendor governance and develop sourcing strategies.

Skills

Vendor Management

Contract Negotiation

Risk Management

Sourcing Strategies

Stakeholder Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business (IT Management)

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in IT

Tools

RFP Templates

Scoring Templates

Job description

Position Summary
As an IT Vendor Manager, you are responsible for coaching and enabling IT Product and other Vendor Managers to ensure the most effective Vendor Management practices and capabilities are employed across Nestlé IT globally. You will develop Strategic Concepts based on Industry Standards to support Service Delivery Strategies Definitions, Sourcing models, risk/performance management methodologies, and serve as a Subject Matter Expert for collaboration with Nestlé Global Procurement. This reflects the requirements in a simplified common framework that includes clearly defined and transparent IT vendor performance metrics in accordance with structured governance with the vendors.

A day in the life of…

• Deliver best-in-class IT Products with the right balance of external services or assets at the best value for money, risk, and speed; delivering quality and Vendor Management capabilities that balance value, cost, risk, and speed over time according to IT technology sourcing strategy.
• Be assertive with obligation management and avoid value leakage from contracts and performance of vendors.
• Define and adapt governance models, ensuring appropriate timely evaluations of new sources of services, managing the transition from one source to another.
• Facilitate the development of the IT sourcing and partner (ecosystem) management strategy and translate corporate IT and business initiatives into IT sourcing targets.
• Support the implementation of effective vendor ecosystem management practices to support Product Groups' end-to-end accountability and value delivery.
• Ensure the development and maturity of key sourcing and vendor management competencies and support tools, from business relationship management and strategy definition, RFP templates, scoring templates, best practices for managing vendor (ecosystem) relationships, and overseeing contract terms and conditions and vendor performance.
• Lead IT Vendor Governance: define action plans and monitor actions following the company IT Objectives key priorities.
• Lead the evaluation of optimal sourcing and pricing options, taking into consideration outsourcing, managed services, cloud, hybrid and insourcing models as well as multi-partner ecosystem strategies.

Qualifications:

• Preferably a bachelor’s degree in business (IT management), engineering or IT.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in negotiating and managing IT contracts and relationships or experience as an IT vendor, managing customer accounts and relationships.
• Collaborate with other internal functions (e.g., Procurement, Legal, Finance) to ensure full vendor contract and business compliance.

We are Nestlé, the largest food and beverage company. We are 308,000 employees strong, driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Our values are rooted in respect: respect for ourselves, respect for others, respect for diversity, and respect for our future. With more than CHF 91.4 billion in sales in 2018, we have an expansive presence with 413 factories in more than 85 countries. We believe our people are our most important asset, so we’ll offer you a dynamic inclusive international working environment with many opportunities across different businesses, functions, and geographies, working with diverse teams and cultures. Want to learn more? Visit us at www.nestle.com.