Position: Senior Vendor Manager
Company: Luxoft
Experience required: 5y
English level: fluent

Customer and Products IT consists of 4 Value Streams - Lending, International, Customer and FX&Payments. Focusing on Retail Customer related IT applications such as credit cards and mortgages and various other systems/applications used to provide good quality service to our Customers.
Responsibilities:
Work with all Business Managers, Finance Managers, PPM team, Procurement team, Group IT Cost Management team and IT Heads to ensure a consistent and effective approach to managing the following:

• Work with Service line mangers and BM for running cost board every week
• Responsible for reviewing all request submitted to cost board from affordability, commercial review and supplier type
• Manage and run cost board every week for WPB
• Contract Management and commercial management of supplier contracts
• Review of SOW and providing commercial and operational observation
• Creatively apply business and technical knowledge to enable, support and review all aspects of third party spends
• Develop and maintain communication at all levels across the organisation to facilitate smooth and effective running of cost board operation and outcomes for WPB Leading the Budget planning and forecasting process to Target, including challenging unrealistic forecasts;
• Interface with the Business Manager and Finance Manager in putting together third party demand;
• Run/support vendor governance forum for strategic vendors of WPB
• Run procure to pay process through Fusion team
• Work with Service Line around third party budgeting process (ZBB) and monitor utilization of the same
• Work with Service Line globally around third party forecasting
Mandatory Skills Description:
• Minimum 5 years in financial budgeting experience
• Strategic planning skillset
• Good communication
• People management processes
• Strong Excel
• Work well in the matrix organization
• IT/Software Licence/contract experience
• Experience of working directly with third party vendors
• Knowledge of third party vendor contracts
Nice-to-Have Skills:
• Monitoring of contractual SLA/KPIs
• Third Party risk management experience
Languages:
English: C1 Advanced