News Corp
Director, Technology Vendor Management
News Corp, New York, NY
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
Job Description :
Director, Technology Vendor Management Organization
Position summary: We are establishing a Vendor Management Organization as a dedicated function in the current Sourcing organization responsible for managing relationships with external Technology vendors. This will be a function to ensure vendors deliver value to the business, meet performance standards and comply with contractual obligations. In this role, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing vendor relationships for our Technology Group to ensure the delivery of services align with business objectives. This role in particular focuses on Technology Vendors only providing Services in all categories (Hardware, Software, Services, Cloud computing etc.).
Accountabilities
Supplier identification and market research
Managing vendor relationships
Ensuring contract compliance
Usage monitoring
QBR facilitation
Critical Experiences | Competencies | Abilities
About News Corp
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.
Headquartered in New York, News Corp's activities are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
Job Category:
Pay Range: 150000 - 170000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
Job Description :
Director, Technology Vendor Management Organization
Position summary: We are establishing a Vendor Management Organization as a dedicated function in the current Sourcing organization responsible for managing relationships with external Technology vendors. This will be a function to ensure vendors deliver value to the business, meet performance standards and comply with contractual obligations. In this role, you will be responsible for managing and optimizing vendor relationships for our Technology Group to ensure the delivery of services align with business objectives. This role in particular focuses on Technology Vendors only providing Services in all categories (Hardware, Software, Services, Cloud computing etc.).
Accountabilities
Supplier identification and market research
- Build strong relationships with internal stakeholders to align vendor services with business needs
- Stay up to date with industry trends to manage vendor sourcing and performance
Managing vendor relationships
- Develop vendor relationships demonstrating a partnership approach and fostering collaboration to drive innovation and continuous improvement
- Be the first level of relationship escalation for our stakeholders
- Facilitate communication between vendors and internal stakeholders
Ensuring contract compliance
- Ensure performance meets established service levels and contractual obligations by
Usage monitoring
- Financial risk monitoring optimizing vendor costs
- SLA monitoring: SLA compliance as per contract and report any SLAs missed
- Ensuring governance and reporting mechanism in place with the vendor to measure and report on consumption
- Understanding the contracts, pricing models (unit based, license based, consumption based), entitlements
- Making sure we are utilizing the vendor effectively
- Highlighting potential overages early enough to take corrective action
QBR facilitation
- Facilitate regular QBR for strategic vendors to review performance, discuss progress and ensure alignment with business objectives
- Facilitate discussion between the vendor and the News Corp Technology Architecture group to ensure Increase understanding of product offerings and roadmaps to promote more value from our strategic partners
Critical Experiences | Competencies | Abilities
- Bachelor of Arts or Sciences Degree or equivalent experience required.
- Minimum 10 years of vendor management and/or equivalent experience required.
- Ability to work cross-functionally with internal stakeholders (e.g., procurement, finance, operations) to align vendor management efforts with business objectives
- Good understanding of procurement process and vendor contracts
- Understanding of different delivery models (managed service, fixed fee, time and material etc)
- Understanding of various commercial models (SAAS subscription, usage based, license based etc.)
- Technology industry knowledge
- Understanding of vendor management best practices
- Strong communication skills (Internal as well as external)
- Negotiation and analytical skills
- Conflict Resolution
- Experience working in a large, global, highly matrixed organization, and works easily in multi-business unit project settings; able to facilitate teamwork across corporate boundaries.
- Proven written and oral communicator, with strategic, analytical, and interpersonal skills to act as an effective change agent, unlocking barriers to value for priority spend categories.
- Experienced at identifying and assessing risk and concisely explaining complex issues to principal business owners.
- Extremely customer-focused, taking the time to understand the needs of the business.
- Ability to travel (up to 10%) - facility site visits and internal/external meetings as required.
About News Corp
News Corp is a global, diversified media and information services company focused on creating and distributing authoritative and engaging content to consumers throughout the world. The company comprises businesses across a range of media, including news and information services, book publishing, digital real estate services, cable network programming in Australia, and pay-tv distribution in Australia.
Headquartered in New York, News Corp's activities are conducted primarily in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Equal Opportunity Employer
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. EEO/AA/M/F/Disabled/Vets
Job Category:
Pay Range: 150000 - 170000
We recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. As a result, we aim for flexibility in structuring competitive compensation offers to ensure we are able to attract the best candidates. The quoted salary range represents our good faith estimate as to what our ideal candidates are likely to expect, and we tailor our offers within the range based on the selected candidate's experience, industry knowledge, location, technical and communication skills, and other factors that may prove relevant during the interview process.
Pay-for-performance is a key element in our strategy to attract, engage, and motivate talented people to do their best work. Similarly to salary, for bonus eligible roles, targets are set based on a variety of factors including competitive market practice.
For benefits eligible roles, in addition to cash compensation, the company provides a comprehensive and highly competitive benefits package, with a variety of physical health, retirement and savings, caregiving, emotional wellbeing, transportation, and other benefits, including "elective" benefits employees may select to best fit the needs and personal situations of our diverse workforce.