General Manager/Vice President - Technology Procurement/Contracts - Software Business

It's a Technology Procurement + Contract management role .

PG - MBA in IT / Operations Management (preferred)

- UG - Computer Science Engineering from a renowned school

- At least 10-12 yrs. of strong experience in IT - particularly in developing/managing product software.

- The leader will manage multiple categories of spend across devices, content and services

- Need an expert in software product and project cost and commercial models.

- The role will require working with a wide network of AMB leaders and cross-functional stakeholders - different Network, IT, marketing, customer service and B2B leaders to drive the strategic business agenda for Companyl across diverse categories.

- Understand the nature of software spend across the company - the context, environment, systems, processes it supports and ecosystem.

- Review all existing contracts with explicit or embedded software elements - develop a standard template with best practices and fair clauses to protect Company's interest

- Develop a detailed profile of all software spend across categories, functions and agreementsUnderstand the nature of software spend across the company - the context, environment, systems, processes it supports and ecosystem.

- Develop and sustain strong relationships with all key software partners

- Identify innovative new commercial constructs for software - tie these constructs back to key business and operational metrics/criteria

- Become the SME for software constructs like EULA, subscriptions and SaaS.

- Own the War on Waste agenda for software elements - particularly AMC.

- Breakdown the cost elements of software AMC and dramatically right size these costs. Identify alternate methods of supporting software, if needed.

- Drive compliance for all license and subscription based software assets through timely renewals of contracts, logging of all requisite licenses and paying our partners on time.

- Resolving all issues arising from disputes with partners expeditiously and fairly.

- Engage within supply chain and outside supply chain with other functions and suppliers to Company's to understand their needs and resolve pain points related to software.

- Track usage of licenses across different platforms and functions. Champion the reuse of these licenses to ensure that we are getting complete value from these contracts.

- Own and drive support on all tools, systems and reporting being used for software

- Deep functional expertise in building and maintaining software.