Senior Vendor Manager – Technology & Infrastructure

Project overview

Unleash your expertise in strategic vendor management – drive innovation and excellence in global technology infrastructure!

Krakow - hybrid work model (up to 3 remote days per week)

As a Senior Vendor Manager – Technology & Infrastructure, you will be working for a leading international financial institution, supporting enterprise infrastructure vendors within a dynamic COO environment. You will lead end-to-end contract management, negotiating complex agreements, and fostering strong stakeholder relationships across 35+ countries. This role offers a unique opportunity to shape supplier strategies, optimize costs, and contribute to critical infrastructure projects on a global scale, fueling career growth and innovation.

Responsibilities

You’re ideal for this role if you have:

• Own and maintain the contracts calendar, ensuring timely renewals and actions.
• Manage a central repository for all signed agreements, keeping it current and structured.
• Create and update contract maps for complex contract stacks involving MSAs, amendments, call-offs, and SOWs.
• Support negotiations on pricing, licensing, SLAs, and legal terms with strategic vendors.
• Collaborate with procurement, legal, and risk teams to conduct pre-contract risk assessments.
• Drive vendor negotiations to achieve favorable commercial outcomes and mitigate risks.
• Coordinate renewal activities, including demand collection, quoting, and progress tracking.
• Maintain ongoing supplier dialogue on commercials, opportunities, and risks.
• Contribute insights to Supplier Business Reviews, highlighting SLAs, incident reports, and delivery performance.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives in vendor management processes.
• Minimum 5 years of procurement and vendor management experience in technology or infrastructure sectors.
• Proven expertise supporting or negotiating complex agreements (MSA, amendments, call-offs, SOWs).
• Strong familiarity with procurement/vendor tools and processes.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills across technology, procurement, legal, and operations teams.
• Highly organized with the ability to oversee multiple renewal cycles simultaneously.
• Strong data analysis skills using Excel; able to articulate commercial insights clearly.
• Confident in managing vendor meetings and driving actions to closure.
• Business-level fluency in English.

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• Certifications in procurement or vendor management.
• Experience working in international or cross-cultural environments.
• Knowledge of Coupa or similar procurement systems.
• Fluent English
• Only candidates with an existing legal right to work in Europe will be considered for this role.

Project details

• Start: flexible
• Remote: hybrid
• Location: Krakow, PL