Contract and Commercials Enablement Program Manager, Vendor Strategy and Enablement

About This Role

This program manager role focuses on enabling contracts and commercials within vendor strategy. It involves overseeing the contracting lifecycle, analyzing data from various sources, and developing reports and dashboards to communicate insights to stakeholders. The role suits a professional with experience in global supply chain management and stakeholder interaction.

Responsibilities

• Oversee the contracting life-cycle and clause/rate negotiation and implementation
• Gather, compile, and analyze data from various sources like agreement databases and vendor reports to identify trends, patterns, and insights, including maintaining data accuracy and conducting ad-hoc analyses
• Develop and maintain reports and dashboards with KPIs for agreement and category management, creating clear visualizations to communicate data insights to stakeholders
• Track and analyze vendor performance against metrics, assisting in scorecard development and identifying optimization opportunities; similarly, analyze category spend for cost savings and trends
• Identify and assist in implementing process improvements for data collection, analysis, reporting, and agreement management; collaborate with the team and communicate data insights to stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 5 years of experience in global supply chain management, agreement facilitation, and procurement
• 5 years of experience in stakeholder-facing roles, interacting with executive partners
• Experience with data visualization and analysis

Nice to have:

• MBA or Master's degree
• Experience partnering with external suppliers/agent based programs to deliver agreements and programs
• Excellent communication, sourcing, consulting, and collaboration skills

Benefits

• 15% bonus target
• Equity
• Benefits

About the Company

In gTech Users and Products (gUP), the mission is to advocate for Google’s users by creating helpful and trusted experiences across the product ecosystem. This is achieved by meeting partners and consumers where they are with support and help, representing their needs with product partners, and proposing fixes and features that elevate their engagement with Google's diverse product ecosystem. Additionally, gUP provides a range of product services that ensure products are optimized for every user, no matter where they are in the world (e.g., localization, digitization, partner integration and more).