An IT Contract Specialist manages the entire lifecycle of contracts related to IT hardware, software, and services. They are responsible for drafting, negotiating, and administering contracts, ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and managing vendor performance
Responsibilities:
Maintaining a budget overview of IT services and contracts for International perimeter entities:
- Create one overall IT budget for all entities
- Manage budget vs actuals to ensure we remain within budge
Ensuring all relevant renewals, changes, cancellations are executed in a timely fashion:
- Initiate timely contract renewals
- Check with relevant department requirements like number of licenses
- Check best prices and solutions (research)
Challenging current services and contracts to find optimizations that will benefit the company in better services or pricing:
- Review of existing solutions to see if there are optimization possibilities
- Review of service usage like mobile phone contracts to see if we maintain correctly
- Suggest out of the box improvements
This role provides support to all International entities within the Group like Corporate, Africa and Brazil
Qualifications
- Project Management Certification
Experience in:
- Information gathering and maintaining highlevel overview
- Handling Budget consolidation and improvments
- Managing contract/services renewal processes
- System administration in ERP for contracts, purchase orders, etc
- 3 years experience in the mining, coal mining or energy industry.
- Microsoft Office or Project management tooling