Senior IT Labor VMO Vendor Manager

Senior IT Labor VMO Vendor Manager

This role has been designed as 'Hybrid' with an expectation that you will work on average 2-3 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work.

We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today's complex world.

Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what's next.

We know diverse backgrounds are valued and succeed here.

We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs.

We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you.

Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

Liaison between Vendor Management Office (VMO) and a Vice President on the CIO Staff


* Participate in demand planning for their department's external IT professional services sourcing needs


* Guide and coordinate activities between VMO and other teams to select vendor(s) to purchase IT Professional Services: contract negotiation, sign, and Purchase Order release


* Conduct weekly to twice monthly briefing meetings with assigned CIO Staff member to review sourcing work in progress and discuss and resolve any open actions or issues of CIO staff member's department

Performing relationship management and handling escalations with assigned major IT professional services vendors including both project milestone-based SOW and multi-year Managed Services engagements


* Conducting weekly account synch meetings with multi-year Managed Services vendors on topics ranging from issues and escalations, contracts in negotiation, adjustments to scope of vendor responsibilities


* working with vendor on developing content for Quarterly Business Reviews


* Addressing issues arising from missed KPIs, SLAs, or project milestones that are escalated to VMO from HPE project managers, program managers, and operations account leads

Coordinating scope definition and targets (contractual term and commercial) for Global Procurement negotiations.


* Responsible for coordinating across one or more requesters scope and requirements definition, ensuring comprehensiveness and ability to hold vendor accountable.

Communicating to Global Procurement and validating contractual terms and conditions align post-negotiation before contract signature routing.


* Validating budgetary constraints and aligning commercial targets for Global Procurement negotiations.


* Negotiating some SOWs directly with the vendor instead of routing to Global Procurement based on VMO ways of working criteria.

Education and Experience Required:


* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of related experience

Knowledge and Skills:


* Suppli...