Senior Associate, Technology Investment and Vendor Management at Rainforest Alliance
Rainforest Alliance
- Kenya
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop and lead adoption of best practices in technology vendors/suppliers management at Rainforest Alliance
- Participate on contract discussions for technology vendors.
- Lead supplier relationships through the whole lifecycle and actively monitor suppliers' performances
- Builds strong relationships with suppliers, particularly the strategic suppliers across the organisation to meet requirements of the sourcing strategy
- Ensures fulfilment of results / commitments as per the contract
- Responsible for vendor financial management, including invoice management and supporting budgeting, reconciliation, etc
- Creates and leads a supplier risk approach throughout the whole supplier lifecycle at both individual supplier and supplier portfolio levels
- Ensure every vendor contract is accompanied by relevant Key Performance Indicators and vendors are evaluated against those Key Performance Indicators during contract execution and at the end
- Defines the scope and level of service via Master Service Agreement (MSA) or individual agreement with vendors
- Maintain the relationship with internal legal experts and Compliance
- Monitor and control of contractual changes post-award contract in a measured and transparent way to build trust between parties. Analysis of operational and financial impact of changes.
- Track and handle contractual deliverables (i.e. supplier responsibilities) and obligations (i.e. technology org.'s responsibilities)
- Follow change control procedures for all amendments to contracts and Terms and Conditions
- Conducts regular compliance reviews of contracts
- Lead selection of vendors working with the rest of managers in Data and Technology
- Day-to-day management of suppliers and interaction with prospective vendors
- Maintain close links with the Procurement, Legal, Compliance, Third Party Risk functions
- Management of vendor issues from identification and analysis through to execution. Dispute management is performed when required through defined escalation channels and appropriate governance forums
- Bachelor degree in technology or business field such as Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business Administration/Commerce/Finance, etc
- At least 5 years experience in technology related services/equipment/solutions, vendor environments
- Experience in contract management processes
- Experience in contract negotiations
- Qualification/knowledge/experience in leading systems development frameworks such as PMP, Agile, Scrum, etc
- Experience in business process analysis and modeling
- Experience in risk management processes
- Experience in software licenses management (reviewing compliance, usage optimization, etc)
- Knowledge/experience in costs management
- Demonstrate ability to think strategically and identify opportunities for improvement
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