IT Contracts Management, AVP

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) is one of the world's leading financial groups with 150,000 colleagues globally, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community served. The company stands for building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world, with a vision to be the world's most trusted financial group.

About the role

With your expertise as well as analytical thinking and iterative problem solving, you are an experienced trusted advisor who can set strategy and execute. You can comfortably manage a portfolio of complex programs and processes; contribute to leadership discussions on strategy, budget, and talent; and make sound decisions that drive successful outcomes for the company. In the process, you will have exciting opportunities to grow as a thought leader and see the positive impact of your contribution.

Specifically, in this role you will work closely with technology business unit heads to provide guidance and advisory services to improve contract management. You will engage in key stakeholder governance routines and leadership meetings, facilitating technology contract strategy and providing execution leadership to improve overall contract execution and performance.

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 the Project Management teams to align business unit strategy with annual funding and associated contract request submissions.
• Work with financial management, helping manage financial planning to create cohesive contract product and service alignment.
• Effectively drive sourcing requests, working with all levels of the organization, 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 enable decision making with respect to sourcing requests and contract planning.

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 cycle time and/or costs and develop alternative courses of action associated with the contract life cycle
• Proven ability to reach an audience through effective and clear presentations, writing skills and excellent communication strategies
• Good consensus-builder; able to drive requests across multiple stakeholder groups, work through obstacles and remove barriers
• Solid understanding and planning skills in all aspects of the system's/business life cycle.
• Ability to identify irregular data, analyze and resolve data discrepancies
• Strong stakeholder management experience and can quickly establish rapport, credibility, and trust throughout the organization.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering positive results and working within time and budgetary constraints to effectively deliver in support of a contract's life cycle.
• Advanced systems knowledge with 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, working with large sets of data
• Ability to learn and adapt to new capabilities/tools based on business needs
• Experience in the financial services industry preferred
• Understanding and experience with software/hardware contracts preferred

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Finance or Technology related fields or Equivalent work experience.

Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate