OFSE Digital Software Portfolio Manager
About Us
Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR), an energy technology company and the world’s first and only full stream provider of integrated oilfield products, services, and digital solutions. With over a century of experience and operations in more than 120 countries, Baker Hughes leverages its global scale and local expertise to help customers produce energy more efficiently and sustainably. We combine digital technologies, industrial capabilities, and domain expertise to optimize operations across the energy value chain. Our mission is to bring energy to the world in smarter and safer ways.
The OFSE Digital Software Portfolio Manager
This role combines portfolio oversight, vendor governance, and financial management to maximize value from software investments. This position also plays an important role in cross-functional collaboration, working closely with sourcing, IT, legal, and business leaders to ensure vendor engagements are aligned with enterprise standards and evolving digital needs.
Key Responsibilities
- Portfolio Management: Oversee the lifecycle of the Digital and IT Oilfield Service & Equipment software portfolio, with a primary focus on SAP/ERP solutions, including licensing, renewals, and vendor performance management
- Maintain an accurate inventory of software assets and licenses and other key metrics
- Vendor Governance & Compliance: Establish and monitor governance standards, procedures, and KPIs across key software vendors
- Ensure adherence to contractual obligations, SLAs, and compliance
- Financial Oversight: Monitor consumption, usage, and overall spending, to identify cost-saving opportunities, and optimize budgets
- Conduct regular risk assessments reviews
- Strategic Collaboration: Partner with business, sourcing, legal, procurement, IT and compliance teams to negotiate favorable terms and mitigate risks
- Drive innovation through vendor collaboration and technology enablement
- Performance Management: Implement vendor scorecards and performance metrics
- Partner with IT leadership, sourcing and legal to capture business requirements and ensure post signature contract performance
- Conduct reviews to ensure service quality and operational excellence
- Audit & Reporting: Conduct periodic audit risk assessment and compliance reviews
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Technology or related field
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience in vendor management, software portfolio management, or commercial contracting, preferably handling enterprise software, IT vendor management, or large-scale SAP/ERP system integration implementations
- Extensive hands-on experience managing enterprise-scale software contracts, including SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft
- Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate effectively in a business environment
- Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
- Excellent organizational skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
- Critical thinking capability, with a demonstrated track record of driving cost savings, operational efficiencies, and continuous improvement initiatives
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Business, Economic, or Technology
- Knowledge of digital transformation and emerging technologies
- Experience in designing and implementing governance frameworks across the vendor lifecycle, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, SLAs, and regulatory requirements
About Us
We are an energy technology company that provides solutions to energy and industrial customers worldwide. Built on a century of experience and conducting business in over 120 countries, our innovative technologies and services are taking energy forward – making it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet. Join Us: Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values innovation and progress? Join us and become part of a team of people who will challenge and inspire you!
Work in a Way That Works for You
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone. In this role, we can confidently offer the following flexible working patterns: Remote working where appropriate subject to the demands and needs of the role. Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit in everything in and work when you are the most productive.