Vendor Manager Technology

Your responsibilities

Category Expertise

• Experience to support building and executing a category strategy in the area of Technology Business Applications, Infrastructure software, Telecom, and IT Services.
• Provide and share trends, developments, and risks for designated vendors to the Category manager.

Vendor Management

• Build supplier relationships, develop and implement a supplier and contract strategies.
• Evaluate and report periodically for assigned vendors regarding performance to Business Contract owners and Procurement leadership.
• Host and facilitate, in close alignment with Business Contract owner, vendor review meetings at strategic level.
• Translate business plans into matching supplier relationships for assigned vendors.
• Conduct contract negotiations with suppliers for major scope changes, updated internal/external requirements, renewals, and disputes.
• Manage contract approvals. Send the contract to the supplier and retrieve signatures from both parties.
• Share requirements and supplier innovation with Category Managers and Sourcing & Category Managers as input for category plans and sourcing projects.
• Provide input for the Leadership team by evaluating available supplier innovations and strategies.
• Consolidation of suppliers and set up a preferred supplier list. Create visibility of the preferred suppliers towards ING NL.

Contract Management

• Manage the contract lifecycle for assigned contracts.
• Manage supplier performance by collecting performance measurements and data. Conduct supplier dialogues.
• Manage and monitor contract and third-party risk compliance and contract obligations so that the contract objectives are achieved.
• Perform product and service quality assessments. Verify the quality of products/service against contractual terms and conditions. Identifying and implementing contract improvements.
• Manage supplier phase-out and vendor master data for a specific set of contracts.

Strategic Challenges

Manage supplier relationship in the context of a multi-disciplinary stakeholder landscape consisting of Business Contract Owner(s), multiple support functions, and Supplier by finding the optimal balance between value optimisation, innovation and third-party risk management.

How to succeed

We hire smart people like you for your potential. Our biggest expectation is that you’ll stay curious. Keep learning. Take on responsibility. In return, we’ll back you to develop into an even more awesome version of yourself.

Furthermore, you have:

• Fluency in the Dutch and English language on a professional business level
• 6+ years in Procurement/Vendor Management area, preferably at a strategic level and preferably in an international financial services provider organisation
• 2+ year managing vendor relationships, preferably at a strategic level in the Technology category. Main knowledge focus on software and services
• Experience working with offshore teams
• Specific Category and supplier knowledge to get the best value out of the supplier relationship
• Experience and local NL market knowledge in the IT Category
• Regulatory, Cloud and Cybersecurity knowledge
• Proven track record in delivering Procurement ValueStrong relationship management skills

Competencies

• Legal acumen
• Stakeholder management
• implementing supplier management for critical and strategic contracts
• Signalling and consulting business on supplier and market risks.
• Lead the governance structure with suppliers and contract owners and service managers
• Analytical Skills
• Influencing and conflict resolution skills
• Agile and self-driven
• Drive sustainable Procurement

Rewards & benefits

We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. You can find out more about our employment conditions here.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• A salary indication tailored to your qualities and experience within GJA18

• Individual leave: 24+2 individual holiday days based on 36 hr workweek

• Diversity leave: 3 days per year (1,5 paid, 1,5 unpaid)

• CSR days: up to 2 days per year to actively engage in society by volunteering

• 13th month salary

• 8% Holiday payment

• Individual Savings Contribution (BIS), 3.5% of your gross annual salary

• Mobility card

• Attractive pension scheme

• Hybrid working to blend home working for focus and office working for collaboration and co-creation

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Please note, multiple interview steps involving various business stakeholders will be part of the selection process.

About us

With 60,000 employees and operations in approximately 40 countries, there is no shortage of opportunities for people with initiative who want to help people take a step ahead in life and in business. Do you want to work at the cutting edge of what’s possible and at the same time ensure you work with integrity and hold the customer’s interests at heart? Do you want to be surrounded by progressive, inspiring, diverse and supportive colleagues? Then there is no better place to invest your talents than at ING. Join us and apply today!