Director DT Delivery Vendor Management

Role Summary
GBSx manages approximately $20M in annual spend and 250 resources across multiple Managed Service Provider (MSP) and staff-augmentation agreements (Accenture Deloitte Infosys KPMG and others) supplying Technical Product Managers Engineering and QA talent across our program portfolio. This role owns end-to-end partner performance management ensuring contractual obligations and milestones are met negotiating commercial terms and identifying cost savings and running the recurring governance cadence that keeps partners accountable. It also builds internal capability so engineering managers no longer carry day-to-day vendor administration and coaches managers on structuring and managing MSP agreements going forward. This role can be filled as a new hire or as an expanded scope for an existing GBSx leader with relevant vendor/delivery management experience.

Key Responsibilities

Partner Performance & Delivery Oversight

Own the full portfolio of delivery partner relationships (Accenture Deloitte Infosys KPMG and others 250 resources $20M annual spend) tracking obligations deliverables and milestones against contracted SOWs
Identify and formally call out SLA breaches missed milestones and quality gaps; apply and track contractual penalties/service credits where warranted
Maintain a partner scorecard covering delivery quality resource utilization staffing fill rates and attrition/backfill turnaround

Governance Cadence

Establish and run monthly performance/operations reviews with each delivery partner with a consistent agenda: KPI review open risks/issues staffing health and commercial standing
Produce executive-ready summaries of partner performance trends for GBSx leadership
Maintain a single source of truth (dashboard/tracker) for active SOWs milestones and partner health across the full portfolio

Commercial & Contract Management

Lead negotiations with delivery partners on rate cards statement-of-work terms renewals and rate-savings/consolidation opportunities across the $20M portfolio
Partner with Legal Procurement and Finance to structure and renegotiate contracts identifying cost-avoidance and savings targets
Track savings realized against targets and report on total cost of delivery partner spend

Capability Building & Enablement

Relieve engineering managers of day-to-day vendor administration by centralizing partner communication escalation and reporting
Design and deliver training for engineering managers on how to draft structure and manage MSP agreements and SOWs including milestone definition acceptance criteria and penalty/credit clauses
Create reusable templates playbooks and governance frameworks for partner onboarding performance reviews and offboarding

Qualifications :

Required Qualifications

• 15 years in vendor/partner management IT sourcing or delivery management ideally with large SI/consulting partners (Accenture Deloitte Infosys or similar)
• Demonstrated experience managing a $10M vendor portfolio and negotiating MSAs SOWs and rate cards with measurable cost savings delivered
• Strong understanding of staff-augmentation and managed-service delivery models for Technical Product Management Engineering and QA roles
• Experience running formal governance/performance review cadences with external partners at scale (multiple concurrent partners/agreements)
• Comfortable interpreting contractual terms (SLAs milestones penalty/credit clauses) without being a lawyer able to partner effectively with Legal/Procurement
• Strong executive presence and negotiation skills able to hold their own against Director/VP-level partner account leads
• Experience coaching or training others (e.g. engineering managers) on contract/vendor management practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in a technology SaaS or platform engineering organization
• Familiarity with ServiceNow SPM/vendor/contract management practices a plus
• PMP CPSM or vendor management certification

Success Metrics

• % of partner SLAs/milestones met on time
• Cost savings identified and realized vs. target (against $20M portfolio)
• Time-to-resolution on partner performance issues
• Reduction in engineering manager time spent on vendor administration
• Manager proficiency/adoption of MSP agreement training

Additional Information :

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Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time