Senior Vendor Manager

Key responsibilities
 

The Senior Vendor Manager is a senior role that encompasses two key areas: (1) Lead our IT Vendor Management team and develop the emerging function and associated capabilities, and (2) Develop and optimise relationships with our outsourced IT partners to deliver and exceed contract requirements.

The role is responsible for driving value creation through effective collaboration, strategic alignment, and proactive engagement with suppliers, particularly Tier 1 strategic partners. 

Through wthis role, you will focus mainly on below activities: 

• Take ownership of the overall relationship and management of Tier 1 IT service providers, ensuring effective communication, collaboration, and alignment with organisational goals and IT strategy.

• Drive and influence suppliers to meet and exceed contract requirements, setting high expectations for delivery.

• Set direction and priorities with suppliers to evolve the service delivery, keeping it relevant to business requirements.

• Ensure efficient, collaborative ways of working are in place between Allianz Partners and our strategic partners, minimising disruptions.

• Maintain senior-level relationships with supplier counterparts and effectively articulate Allianz Partners' interests.

• Ensure Allianz Partners upholds its contractual obligations to suppliers, such as overseeing timely payments and ensuring contracts are in place ahead of delivery.

• Drive initiatives to ensure maximum value creation from partnerships, leveraging vendor capabilities to enhance organisational performance and efficiency.

• Lead major commercial negotiations with Partners, or provide guidance and steer to Contract Managers leading negotiations, as appropriate.

• Own the governance model with Tier 1 suppliers and play an integral role within it, including regular site visits to supplier premises.

• Maintain internal relationships with stakeholders within Allianz Partners to understand requirements, synthesise solutions from relevant IT partners, and identify areas for improvement.

• Develop the capability of the IT Vendor Management function against the approved strategy towards the target state including the identification of existing gaps towards the target, roadmap development and adherence to achieve it mitigating risks and challenges along the way.

What you bring

• Minimum of 10 years of experience as a practitioner of IT delivery in a multi-national company or as an IT Provider in such environment.

• Proven track record of working in a IT Vendor Management environment.

• Deep understanding of Enterprise IT, outsourcing, industry trends, best practices, and relevant regulatory requirements.

• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to identify and pursue savings and efficiency opportunities.

• Sound understanding of process costs, ability to work with Clients and Service Providers to ensure effective operations.

• Communication: Excellent written, presentation and interpersonnal skills. Ability to communicate complex concepts in simple ways.

• Independently follow-up with stakeholders to aid in solution development.

• Stakeholder management: ability to influence, guide and build relationships at a senior level within Allianz Partners.

• Ablility to interact with senior level management.

• Bachelor or Master degree in Law, Business Studies, IT or Finance, or relevant experience.

• ITIL Foundation preferred. COBIT 5 as a plus

• Fluent in English (verbal and written).

What we offer  

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring  that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs.

All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance.

51333 | Sales & Distribution | Professional | Allianz Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us. 

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz’ company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.