Contract and Supplier Manager

-Review and manage maintenance, upgrade and project contracts to ensure compliance, alignment with operational goals, and identification of risk or improvement areas. -Conduct cost benchmarking and financial analysis across service agreements to optimize spend and support strategic sourcing decisions. -Develop and implement supplier performance metrics and scorecards to monitor quality, delivery, cost, and compliance, ensuring continuous improvement and alignment with organizational objectives. -Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to identify operational efficiencies, streamline processes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives -Collaborate with supply chain and procurement teams to align supplier performance objectives with sourcing strategies, contract management, and overall operational efficiency -Oversee supplier relationship and performance management, fostering strategic partnerships and ensuring service levels through KPIs and scorecards -Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise related to financial controllership (accuracy, forecasting & compliance) of datacenter financials. -Manage the financial and commercial aspects of site contracts including related PO and invoice reviews. -Evaluate cost savings opportunities and implement strategic projects to realize savings -Identify and implement efficiency opportunities across technical systems, operational workflows, and resource deployment to enhance performance, reduce costs, and support scalable data center operations. -Leverage local subject matter expert's tribal knowledge, spread adoption of best practices -Act on opportunities to increase agility, and contribute to workstreams to evolve processes, services, and solutions for Operations and Service Level Agreements for CO+I -Coordinate closely with datacenter field operations to foster alignment and partnerships for business success Capabilities important to success include: -Operational Planning & Project Management: Show structured thinking, planning, and the ability to execute by working through others, influencing without authority, and dealing with ambiguity -Exceptional written and Interpersonal skills: Communicate effectively and concisely with stakeholders, senior managers, and leaders about our programs and objectives -Customer/Stakeholder Focus: Gather stakeholder impressions of services and programs, integrating this feedback into decision making. Allocate and align resources to optimize the stakeholder and partner experience. -Performance Goal and Standards Setting: Develop and communicate to realistic timelines via plans that consider potential obstacles and immediate + long-term consequences -Understand datacenter business objectives: Critically review multiple plans and adjust as needed. Proactively communicate and address necessary trade-offs -Flexibility and Adaptability: Regularly scan the environment to help anticipate changes that could affect key programs and projects. Effectively changes plans, goals, actions or priorities to respond to changing situations. -Team Player: Ability to both contribute strategically to this relatively new team and support strategic decisions once debate is over -Qualification in Engineering, Procurement, Supply Chain,Project Management, or a related field; OR trade certification combined with practical industry experience -OR 5+ years industry experience and college course work. -2+ years experience in Critical Environment infrastructures (e.g., UPS, Generator, AHU) or working in physical IT infrastructures (e.g., Servers, SANs, Networking, Capacity, DC Rack/Enclosures, structured cabling). -Technical College degree in Computer Science, Math, Telecommunications, Electrical/Mechanical Engineering or related field. -2+ years experience with industry program and project management skills -Exposure to Data Centre commissioning and construction 2+ years experience working with collaboration platforms (e.g. SharePoint, MS Teams etc.) -2+ years experience with reporting and data analysis systems & platforms (e.g. PowerBI) These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled. *