IT Contract Manager

Project overview

Our client in the Energy and Natural Resources sector is looking for an IT Contract Manager (m/f/d).

Mission Description:

Context

Within the IT department of a large company, the Procurement and Contracts team manages IT procurement processes, oversees the Contract Management function, handles intellectual services and software license contracts, monitors supplier relationships, and contributes to the preparation of procurement strategies with the Procurement Department.

The IT Contract Manager is involved at every stage of the contract lifecycle: defining contractual strategy, consultations, launching and executing subsequent procurements, supporting specifiers, and managing contractual relationships.

Mission

As part of the Contract Management processes and to contribute to the IT department's performance, the Contract Manager ensures the monitoring of assigned contracts and supports new tenders, in coordination with business domains, the Procurement Department, and the Legal Department.

Main Responsibilities

Technical Environment

Expected Deliverables

Profile Sought

Experience

Technical Skills

Personal Skills

Languages

Essential Skills / Qualities:

IT Contract Management, Procurement and Public Procurement Processes, IT Project Management in IT Department, Monitoring of Contracts, Risks, and Deadlines.

• Ensure contract monitoring and evolution: indicators, penalties, contract committees, governance, action plans, subsequent procurements, consumption, and savings.
• Update contractual documents and produce reporting for managed contracts.
• Ensure compliance with contractual clauses and anticipate deadlines with specifiers.
• Act as the point of contact for business domains for new tenders and ensure their monitoring and management from the IT department's perspective.
• Process and prepare files with the Procurement Department and/or the Legal Department.
• Contribute to procurement strategy meetings and the preparation of related documents.
• Participate in the Contract Management roadmap, continuous improvement of the function, and the harmonization, formalization, and communication of processes.
• Participate in the evolution of tools for monitoring framework agreements and subsequent procurements.
• Tools: office tools, contract and deadline monitoring tool.
• Generative Artificial Intelligence: Claude or equivalent.
• Processes: IT procurement, tenders, framework agreements, subsequent procurements, and public procurement.
• Weekly summaries of tenders being monitored.
• Weekly summaries of managed contracts.
• Risk analyses for each managed contract, with alerts if necessary.
• Summary file of contractual deadlines for monitored contracts.
• Formalized processes, validated and made available in the used document repositories.
• Other deliverables that may be defined during the assignment.
• Experience in Contract Management and IT project management within an IT department.
• Mastery of Contract Management processes.
• Mastery of IT department activities and office tools.
• Knowledge of procurement processes: consultations, framework agreements, and public procurement.
• Ability to track deadlines and organize and lead committees.
• Training or awareness in the use of a generative artificial intelligence tool such as Claude or equivalent, demonstrable through training, certification, operational experience, or equivalent justification.
• Adaptability, rigor, and autonomy.
• Ease and quality of written and oral communication in French.
• Proactivity and ability to propose solutions.
• French: quality written and oral communication.

Nice to have

Use of Claude or an equivalent generative AI tool.

Project details

Yes — 2 days/week

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Saint-Denis-De La Bouteillerie, QC G0L 2R0, Canada, CA
• Rate: 63-63 EUR/h
• Languages: French