Associate Director - Vendor Management

ses are streamlined and efficient. The main goal is to build and maintain vendor/contractor relationships with the objectives of eliminating inefficiencies, reducing total costs, and increasing productivity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead and oversee the Vendor Management team, providing leadership, mentorship, and direction.

• Determinate operational strategies by monitoring key metrics

• Define the team processes, support improvements and automation

• Ensure Identify, communicate, and address needs and interests of CIO organization

• Ensure centralized management of Vendor agreements for the CIO organization

• Set the vendor strategy, establish, and manage vendor relationships

• Interacts with strategic supplier to ensure that daily operations meet contractual obligations and outcomes

• Coordinate all RFI/RFP/RFQ processes

• Monitor the CIO vendor landscape and provide reporting on vendor services, financials, and performance

• Ensure proper budget allocation in line with the agreed vendor agreements

• Ensure cooperation with the internal stakeholders and vendors to negotiate the best rates/ costs for purchase

• Maintain data sets in relation to contract renewals, open purchase obligations and future commitments

• Identify and report on savings, risks, and upcoming opportunities as needed

• Create detailed supplier vendor assessments, analysing vendor supplier performance to evaluate compliance, quality assurance and service levels and insist on corrective action as necessary

• Evaluate and monitor vendor performance to ensure compliance with contractual obligations and to determine need for changes

• Develop the request documents, facilitate the evaluations, negotiations and contracting

• Ensure availability of guidance on vendor engagement processes within all CIO

What we can offer

• Competitive salary and benefits: Private Life & Health Insurance, Voluntary Pension Fund contribution and monthly benefit allowance to SZÉP card.

• Internal rewards and recognition programs.

• Ongoing wellbeing initiatives (including mental health support), team outings and seasonal gifts.

• Commuting and relocation support for local, EU or overseas candidates and their *spouses and children (*provided certain conditions are met).

• Annual profit-sharing bonus subject to company performance.

• Personal and professional development both in-person and online (certified trainings, on-the-job coaching & mentoring, career progression support). we also nurture new talent and 'career changers' through our comprehensive education programs and exclusive accreditations.

• Flexible working opportunities (part-time and home office) for a better work-life balance.

• Annual 1-day paid leave for volunteering.

• An open, diverse, inclusive, and empathetic culture that supports learning and encourages collaboration over competition.

• As the proud owner of the Family Friendly

• Workplace certification, we provide great benefits for working parents with fair maternity and paternity leave policies such as additional bonding leave for dads and same-sex domestic partners at the birth or adoption of a child, accommodating working parents based on needs, organizing family events and many more.

Your Future at Kyndryl

Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won't find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here

Who You Are

You're good at what you do and possess the required experience to prove it. However, equally as important - you have a growth mindset; keen to drive your own personal and professional development. You are customer-focused - someone who prioritizes customer success in their work. And finally, you're open and borderless - naturally inclusive in how you work with others

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Computer Science, Business management or a related field.

• 5+ years of proven experience in a leadership role.

• 3+ years of experience in Procurement or Vendor Management

• Strong knowledge of IT Supplier base

• Experience in negotiating IT contracts

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.

• Strong understanding of business operations and experience in aligning technical solutions with business objectives.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Ability to understand financial terms of contracts and identify cost savings

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it's how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we're not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you - and everyone next to you - the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That's the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter - wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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