About the Role
The Vendor Manager ensures effective vendor and contract management across IT, with accountability for cost transparency and contract compliance. The role coordinates the vendor and contract lifecycle and provides transparency on invoices and cloud costs across domains, functions, and cost types. It supports sourcing and make-or-buy decisions by providing relevant commercial and vendor insights. Success is reflected in compliant IT sourcing, transparent and attributable spend, and well-informed sourcing decisions.
About Your Tasks
- Coordinate the vendor and contract lifecycle across IT to support compliant and cost-transparent sourcing.
- Analyse invoices and cloud costs by domain, function, and cost type to make IT spend attributable and actionable.
- Monitor vendor and contract information to support transparency and adherence to contractual requirements.
- Evaluate commercial and vendor information to support make-or-buy and sourcing decisions.
- Support IT stakeholders in sourcing decisions by providing relevant vendor, contract, and cost insights.
- Contribute to vendor (re)negotiations by applying commercial judgement and foundational knowledge of contract law.
About Stakeholders
- IT stakeholders and domain/function representatives: collaborate on vendor requirements, cost attribution, and sourcing decisions.
- Manager and Governance – Financials & Analytics peers: align on vendor, contract, and cost transparency topics.
- Procurement / sourcing stakeholders: coordinate contract lifecycle and sourcing-related requirements.
- External vendors: coordinate commercial and contractual topics throughout the vendor lifecycle.
About You
- Hold a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Procurement, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- Bring a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in vendor and/or contract management.
- Demonstrate practical experience with sourcing-related topics, with relevance to an IT environment.
- Apply foundational knowledge of negotiation principles and contract law.
Technical Skills and Competencies
- Analyse invoice and cost information to create transparent and actionable views of spend.
- Apply vendor and contract management principles across the contract lifecycle.
- Evaluate commercial information to support sourcing and make-or-buy decisions.
- Experience leveraging AI, intelligent automation, workflow technologies, or low-code platforms to simplify governance, increase transparency, and improve decision support.
About Your Benefits
In order to provide you with the best possible support for your individual needs - whether it‘s living a healthy life, having enough time for your family, or developing your skills - we offer a wide range of different, site-specific benefits:
- Sports: Stay healthy. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, so that you can take advantage of a huge variety of sport offers.
- Mental Health: Get quick and professional help from psychologists of nilo if you feel overwhelmed in private or professional life. Anonymous and free of charge.
- Work from Home: If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.
- Mobility: We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time. Click here to learn more.
- Redcare events: We promote teambuilding through creative team events, and celebrate our successes together at regularly scheduled parties.