- Collaborates with business unit heads, IT managers to understand business needs and translate them into technology capabilities that can be fulfilled by external providers.

- Identifies new technology offerings such as cloud/packaged applications or infrastructure services in the market, which can be used across different services.

- Collaborates with technology specialists to evaluate the new technology offering for integration with the organization's current systems.

- Conducts market research to identify price benchmarks for new product and service offerings for effective contract negotiation.

- Negotiates contracts and manages relationships with multiple external service providers.

- Creates and maintains a catalog of technology services offered by multiple vendors.

- Collaborates with business unit heads, IT managers to create service level agreements and define the service level metrics to evaluate the performance of external services providers.

Required Skills and Experience

- Expert in new technology evaluation, product and vendor evaluation, contract negotiation, and procurement management

- Competent in handling software licensing process

- Should be challenging and possess ability to convince and manage stakeholders

- Ability to communicate and build relationships outside IT

- Working knowledge of integration architecture development

- Should be able to work effectively as part of a global team

- Ability to perform risk/return analysis, business domain analysis, and market and competitor analysis.

- Experience as sales/account manager with IT services or technology product companies or as vendor manager or procurement manager.

- Expert in new technology evaluation, product and vendor evaluation, contract negotiation, and procurement management

- Competent in handling software licensing process

- Should be challenging and possess ability to convince and manage stakeholders

- Ability to communicate and build relationships outside IT

- Working knowledge of integration architecture development

- Should be able to work effectively as part of a global team

- Ability to perform risk/return analysis, business domain analysis, and market and competitor analysis.

- Experience as sales/account manager with IT services or technology product companies or as vendor manager or procurement manager.

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