Tata Motors - Deputy General Manager - VMCO - Contracts & Commercials

A technically sound person for a leading automobile company's IT function : with 7-8 years of work-ex. in reading, writing, analyzing and evaluating IT contracts from commercial, cost aspect while Procuring IT Services, Hardware, Software in legacy as well as emerging IT technologies like ERP/ CRM/ Digital/ IoT/ Cloud/ Interface/ Mobility/ IT Infra & Security/ Analytics/ Data Storage/ Artificial Intelligence/ Telematics / GIS/ ASP/ API/ ESB/ UI-UX/ etc.

STRATEGIC : 

Ensure IT's in-house skill in IT contracts (a) commercial and cost aspects, (b) in consideration to timely & smooth technical operational delivery.

FINANCIAL 2 : 

Read, evaluate, write afresh, rewrite, amend, extend : IT Software, Hardware, Services Contracts, SLAs, MSAs, NDAs by modelling cost to :

(a) Bring evident cost saving at the initial phase of contract life-cycle, (b) mitigate risks (legal, financial, operational, forex)

(c) Ensure that vendor agrees to precise deliverables of IT's Delivery BU.

FINANCIAL 3 : 

Negotiate monetary terms & non-monetary clauses with vendors in a way that Contracts (New ones, Change Requests, RFQs, RFPs, RFIs) are signed at optimal cost while fulfilling SLAs & relevant delivery metrics (time, quality, scope etc.)

PROCESS 4 : 

Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) for IT Contracts of various kinds : Leasing, T&M & FB Projects Services, Incident & Change Management, Cloud Environment, Software Licenses Subscription, Hardware AMC, Software as a Service (SaaS) etc.

PROCESS 5 : 

Liaison with Finance, Legal & Procurement for the clauses and terms in the Contracts as per company policy and process compliance.

PROCESS 6 : 

Keep repository of contracts & commercials documentation including standard templates. Devise Best Practices in IT Commercials, Contracts.