IT Contract Manager – Amsterdam

Overview

Job Purpose and Summary

Canon is looking for an IT Contract Manager to join the CIO-Office team responsible for assisting in the management of contractual engagements with our IT vendors.

In this role your main responsibility will be to ensure new engagements (and new services to existing engagements) are appropriately contracted. This will sometimes mean leading and coordinating the process, sometimes reviewing the input (and ensuring the quality) created by others in the IT department.

This role is well suited for someone with an in-depth understanding and experience with IT projects and contracting skills including legal elements and IT elements of an IT Service contract.

What we give

As an IT Contract Manager, you will:

Be involved with Contract Lifecycle Management by:

• Supporting Service/Contract Owners as required to ensure contracts are up to date
• Train Service/Contract Owners and internal support functions on IT contract governance quality
• Support Service / Contract Owners with input into any contracting questions
• Undertake a quality review of an agreed volume of service renewal documents and one-off project statements of work

Support sourcing, vendor and performance management by:

• Assist Sourcing and Procurement teams on relevant input into RFP’s.
• Assist Service/Contract Owner and Vendor Management (for strategic suppliers)
• Aligning with and assisting the Contract Performance Manager (contractual execution of our Strategic Application Maintenance and Application Delivery vendors)

Be involved with IT Contract Governance by:

• Maintaining IT contracts governance documentation (process/R&R)
• Providing input to IT contract governance process review and redesign (prior to the implementation of new Contract Management System (CMS)
• Assisting in the implementation of the future / proposed new CMS

Involved with Contract Administration by:

• Supervising external resources engaged to uploading/archiving contracts and capturing/updating contract metadata.

 

What we ask

As an IT Contract Manager, you will need:           

• An in-depth understanding of and experience with IT projects and IT service provision
• Para-legal IT contracting skills including a detailed understanding of both the legal elements and IT elements of an IT service contract
• High level understanding of EU legislation relevant to IT contracting
• Contract quality review, drafting, negotiation skills
• Analytical and communication skills (ability to provide insights into contractual matters)
• Stakeholder management
• Able to mix short term priority activities with a strong medium and long term planning

You will need

In addition to a competitive salary, you will be eligible for the following benefits in this role:

• Performance-based bonus of 12,5%
• 31 days holiday per year
• Pension plan
• Bicycle plan
• Full coverage of your public transport costs and partially car costs

Canon champions hybrid working with a flexible working policy. You will be part of an energetic and innovative environment with more than 50 different nationalities! Lastly you’ll find that Canon encourages continuous Learning and Development with a wide range of resources and support available on demand.

Does this seem like a great fit for your career expectations? We're excited to hear from you! Even if you don't meet all the qualifications we still encourage you to apply.c

Job Family: Operations – Quality Assurance & Business Improvement
Job grade 13

Further information

Competencies 

• Act as a Team Player
• Apply Business Acumen
• Communicate effectively
• Apply Strategic Thinking
• Create Solutions to Problems
• Drive & Manage Change
• Focus on the Customer
• Negotiate & Influence