Supplier&ContractManager

Job Description Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? Do you have previous experience in Supplier and Contract Management? If yes, we are looking for you. The position is responsible for ensuring the delivery of some of Thomson Reuters’ most important global contracts and third-party supplier relationships through rigorous governance in order to achieve maximum value for investment and to optimize 360-degree relationships (buy from, sell to, partner with). **About the role** In this opportunity, this role will. * Act as Thomson Reuters’ subject matter expert for assigned supplier contracts * Act as an escalation point on supplier matters, liaising with and advising the business and TR senior leaders as necessary, to achieve the best outcome for Thomson Reuters * Manage and negotiate to resolve major disputes, including on SLAs, unit rates, and contract compliance, to minimize commercial leakage and risk while sustaining healthy partnerships with suppliers * Control costs and limit financial risk and exposure through managing contracts and negotiating contract changes and settlements * Ensure contract deliverables and obligations, as well as stakeholder expectations, are met using Obligation Management practices and tools * Diagnose supplier performance and compliance issues relating to the contract, as well as recommend options and secure buy-in for plans to improve supplier performance/compliance * Manage, draft, and negotiate contract changes including amendments and change requests and secure internal buy-in/approvals * Implement best practice contract and commercial governance to reduce value leakage and erosion including adoption of a commercial issues log and leading contract and commercial governance meetings * Support 360-degree supplier relationship assessments and efforts (buy-from, sell-to and partner-with) * Drive creation of formal supplier strategies