IT Contracts Management, AVP

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group • Jersey City, NJ

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The IT Contracts Management AVP works closely with technology business unit heads to provide guidance and advisory services that improve contract management. The role participates in stakeholder governance routines and leadership meetings, facilitates technology contract strategy, and provides execution leadership to improve contract execution and performance. It requires analytical thinking, iterative problem solving, trusted-advisor capabilities, and the ability to manage complex programs and processes while contributing to discussions on strategy, budget, and talent.

The position partners across sourcing, Human Resources, project management, and financial management to coordinate technology supplier records, contract resources, annual funding, sourcing requests, and financial planning. It manages reporting and data to support sourcing and contract-planning decisions and provides visibility into vendor spending, contract requests, renewals, and other outside costs.

The role follows a hybrid schedule: four days per week at an MUFG office or client site and one day working remotely. The listed base pay range is $127,000–$157,000 for New York/New Jersey and $113,000–$150,000 for other locations, depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. The role may also be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. MUFG describes a benefits package that includes health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training, disability income replacement for qualified employees, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.

Requirements

• At least 3 years of proven experience within a large, highly matrixed organization, with recent work related to contracts, standards, and governance.
• Ability to identify excessive contract life-cycle cycle time and/or costs and develop alternative courses of action.
• Effective presentation, writing, and communication skills.
• Consensus-building ability, including driving requests across multiple stakeholder groups, working through obstacles, and removing barriers.
• Understanding and planning skills across all aspects of the systems/business life cycle.
• Ability to identify irregular data, analyze it, and resolve data discrepancies.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to establish rapport, credibility, and trust throughout the organization.
• Demonstrated record of delivering positive results within time and budget constraints in support of a contract’s life cycle.
• Advanced systems knowledge and strong capabilities in Ariba, SharePoint, and Excel.
• Strong Office 365 and presentation skills.
• Effective use of collaboration tools such as MS Teams and SharePoint.
• Strong data-analysis skills, including working with large datasets.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new capabilities and tools based on business needs.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance, or a technology-related field, or equivalent work experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in the financial services industry.
• Understanding of and experience with software and hardware contracts.

Responsibilities

• Partner with sourcing to maintain comprehensive books of record for technology suppliers and supplier delivery commitments.
• Work with Human Resources and other system owners to help ensure contract resource alignment.
• Work with Project Management teams to align business unit strategy with annual funding and related contract request submissions.
• Work with financial management on financial planning to create cohesive contract product and service alignment.
• Drive sourcing requests across organizational levels to ensure quality and timely delivery of required technology contracts.
• Provide clear insight into vendor spend, contract requests, renewals, and other outside costs to enable vendor operations execution.
• Manage reporting and data to support decision-making regarding sourcing requests and contract planning.
• Work closely with technology business unit heads to provide contract-management guidance and advisory services.
• Engage in stakeholder governance routines and leadership meetings, facilitating technology contract strategy and execution leadership.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.
• Retirement plans.
• Educational assistance and training programs.
• Income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities.
• Paid maternity and parental bonding leave.
• Paid vacation, sick days, and holidays.
• The role may be eligible for discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager