IT & Commercial Services Manager (TX)

Location: Houston TX
Schedule: Hybrid 3 days onsite per week
Employment Type: Contract-to-Hire
Contract Duration: Approximately 4 months before conversion
Hours: 9:00 AM 5:00/5:30 PM
Compensation: $60-80/hr on contract

• Upon conversion up to $160k

Work Authorization: U.S. Citizen or Green Card holder

We are seeking an experienced IT & Commercial Services Manager to lead the financial and commercial operations supporting a global technology organization.

This is not a traditional technical IT leadership position. The role focuses on the business and commercial side of IT including financial management budgeting and forecasting vendor management procurement contracts purchase orders invoicing and software licensing.

The ideal candidate has managed IT spend from beginning to end and can serve as a trusted partner to senior IT leadership while working closely with Finance Accounts Payable Procurement Legal Risk Cybersecurity and technology teams.

This individual will have significant ownership and autonomy and should be comfortable managing a multi-million-dollar IT budget challenging vendors identifying financial discrepancies negotiating contracts and ensuring IT commercial operations remain financially disciplined and audit-ready.

• Manage a multi-million-dollar IT operating and capital budget including annual budgeting forecasting reforecasting accruals variance analysis and budget-vs.-actual reporting.
• Manage CapEx and OpEx expenditures and ensure IT costs are properly categorized and allocated across appropriate GL accounts.
• Own the full IT purchase order lifecycle including PO creation approvals vendor coordination tracking reconciliation and closeout.
• Manage the end-to-end vendor invoice process validating invoices against contracts purchase orders rates usage and statements of work.
• Identify and resolve invoice PO contract and budget discrepancies before payment.
• Partner closely with Finance and Accounts Payable on accruals prepayments month-end reconciliation financial close and payment workflows.
• Serve as a primary point of contact for IT vendors and managed service providers.
• Manage vendor performance SLAs escalations quarterly business reviews renewals and commercial relationships.
• Support IT procurement and sourcing activities including vendor selection competitive bidding RFx processes and negotiations.
• Manage IT contracts throughout their lifecycle including intake redlines negotiations approvals renewals expiration tracking and contract repository management.
• Partner with Legal and Risk teams on contractual regulatory security and data-protection requirements.
• Manage enterprise software and SaaS licensing including license inventory entitlements true-ups renewals compliance audits unused licenses and cost optimization.
• Maintain accurate and audit-ready documentation across contracts POs invoices budgets licensing and vendor activity.
• Support internal and external audits related to IT financial controls vendor management licensing and procurement.
• Develop dashboards and executive reporting covering IT spend forecasts savings vendor performance invoice metrics licensing and commercial risks.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve financial procurement invoice contract and vendor-management processes.
• Communicate complex financial contractual and technology-related information clearly to senior leadership and non-technical stakeholders.
• Help develop the IT commercial services function and support additional staff as the team grows.

• 810 years of progressive experience in IT financial management IT commercial operations vendor management procurement contracts or related functions.
• Strong hands-on experience managing IT budgets forecasts accruals variance analysis and budget-vs.-actual reporting.
• Experience managing significant operating and capital IT expenditures.
• Strong understanding of CapEx vs. OpEx and general ledger allocation.
• Deep understanding of the full purchase order lifecycle from creation and approvals through reconciliation and closeout.
• Hands-on experience validating vendor invoices against POs contracts rates services and budgets.
• Demonstrated contract negotiation experience including contract review redlining commercial negotiations renewals and expiration management.
• Strong IT vendor-management experience including performance management SLAs QBRs escalations and relationship management.
• Experience partnering directly with Finance Accounts Payable Procurement Legal and IT leadership.
• Experience supporting audits and maintaining accurate financial and commercial documentation.
• Experience with financial planning ERP procurement AP automation vendor-management or PO/invoice workflow systems.
• Strong financial acumen and exceptional attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to operate autonomously and confidently interact with senior executives and external vendors.

• Experience within a law firm professional services organization financial services company or another complex and highly regulated enterprise environment.
• Experience managing software licensing SaaS subscriptions entitlements true-ups and license optimization.
• Experience with sourcing and RFx processes.
• Experience supporting third-party risk management and vendor security reviews.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project or similar project/financial forecasting tools.
• Knowledge of ITIL service-management principles.
• MBA or relevant professional certification such as CITAM CSAM CHAMP CPCM CSCP PMP CMA CPA or ITIL certification.

Bachelors degree in Business Administration Finance Accounting Supply Chain Management Information Systems or a related discipline preferred. Equivalent professional experience may also be considered.