Strategic Vendor Manager

Glasgow

Salary: £65-£82K plus (up to 20% bonus, family healthcare & car allowance)

Hybrid working, Permanent

Help us create a better future, quicker

The Strategic Vendor Manager will be responsible for managing Digital Transformation's contract and vendor portfolio covering a diverse range of scope with third parties. This will include management of the strategic relationships with vendors, management of the contract portfolio as well as driving the development and maturation of the Vendor Management function.

What you'll be doing

• Strategic Vendor Management: Oversee the contract and vendor portfolio, ensuring alignment with Digital Transformation strategy and objectives

• Contract Management: Plan and manage all aspects of IT contract placement, extensions, and renewals and report on these to the senior leadership team on a regular basis

• Performance Monitoring: Ensure contracts clearly define SLAs/KPIS and that suppliers meet performance targets

• Supplier Negotiation: Develop strategies to leverage existing relationships for improved value for money

• Collaboration: Working closely with the Digital Transformation teams in a partnership capacity, you will understand the teams strategy and objectives and take responsibility for ensuring that they have the right contracts in place at the right time with the right suppliers to meet their objectives. Work with global teams to improve processes/communication for globally held contracts.

• In life contract management - provide all aspects of contract management during the lifetime of contracts including financial, risk and performance

• Stakeholder Management: Facilitate the end to end contract placement and renewals process with the cross functional team including Procurement, Legal, Cyber and Data Protection

• VMO maturity: identify and drive implementation of improvements in the end to end processes from requirements to on-boarding to payment

What you'll bring

• Experience in IT vendor management for high value, preferably global, contracts

• Extensive knowledge of negotiation processes and strategies, with significant prior

• Demonstrable experience of continuous improvement

• experience in a procurement and/or financial environment.

• Excellent interpersonal skills are essential, including strong influencing skills. This role is focused on relationship management with third party suppliers and internal IT staff.

• Experience of working as part of a global team, across multiple cultures (beneficial)

• Good analytical skills with a strong focus on detail.

• Stakeholder management

What's in it for you

As well as a competitive salary which is reviewed annually, you can also enjoy a number of other benefits. With our pension scheme, we'll double match your contribution up to a company contribution of 10%.

At ScottishPower, we believe it's the little things we do in life that make a big difference. From helping you look after your family's wellbeing, save for your future and take personal steps for climate action - our benefits are designed to help you do just that - so that you have everything you need to take care of your world - today and tomorrow. That's why our benefits include:

• 36 days annual leave

• Holiday purchase - perfect your work/life balance with extra annual leave

• Share Incentive Plan and Sharesave Scheme

• Payroll giving and charity matched funding

• Technology Vouchers - save more and spread the cost of your technology purposes

• Count us in - pledge to reduce carbon emissions and help fight climate change

• Electric Vehicle Schemes - to help you transition to green/clean driving

• Cycle to Work scheme and public transport season ticket loans

• Options to purchase dental insurance, private medical insurance, health cash plan and annual health assessments

• Life Assurance (4x salary)

• Access to nudge' financial wellbeing support

• Plus shopping, leisure, restaurant and gym discounts, and unique employee deals on travel insurance and more

Why ScottishPower

ScottishPower is part of the Iberdrola Group, one of the world's largest integrated utility companies and a world leader in wind energy. With a commitment to generate all of our energy from renewable resources and a drive to create the energy infrastructure of the future, we're at the forefront of the journey to Net Zero and investing over £6m every working day to make this happen. With diverse opportunities across our businesses and a commitment to invest in our own internal talent, ScottishPower can offer people real career opportunities that meet personal and professional goals, in a global organisation.

Inclusion, diversity, and a social purpose are at the heart of everything we do. Together with our values, they bring us together into a stronger, more sustainable business with direct links to the communities we serve. It takes all kinds of people to build a large-scale business like ours, so whatever your background, you'll fit right in.

ScottishPower is committed to providing reasonable support or adjustments in our recruiting processes for candidates with disabilities, long term conditions, mental health conditions, or who are neurodivergent or require pregnancy-related support. If you need support, please reach out to careers scottishpower.com .