IT Commercial Lead

**About us**:
Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group is expected to separate from Woolworths during calendar year 2021 and will be well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution

**About Us**
Endeavour Group was created in 2020 through the restructure and merger of the Woolworths Group drinks and hospitality businesses. With a strong track record of growth, combined these businesses form the leading customer franchise in drinks and hospitality in Australia.

United behind a common purpose of ‘Creating a more sociable future together’, we are a 28,000+ strong team with more than 1600 stores and 330 hotels nationally, including leading brands such as Dan Murphy’s, BWS and ALH Hotels.

Endeavour Group is expected to separate from Woolworths during calendar year 2021 and will be well-positioned as an ASX Top 50 Company. Join the team at an exciting time in their evolution

**About This Role**

As our IT Commercial Lead for Transformation, you’ll be responsible for managing a team of two IT Senior Commercial Analysts to drive the procurement and contract management strategy for IT agreements within the One Endeavour Transformation program; this includes managing the contract lifecycle from creating and driving RFx activities, contract negotiations and management of renewals across Hardware, Software and Professional Services.
Reporting into the Senior Manager - IT Commercial, with a dotted line into Transformation, you will work closely with Program Managers, Legal, Technology Stakeholders and Business Stakeholders across Endeavour Group’s key transformation streams to ensure the procurement pipeline is documented and requirements are met, contract expenditure is aligned with budgetary commitments and transformation-related procurement activities are performed within the guardrails of established procurement policies, procedures and processes.

The role requires an experienced negotiator familiar with constructing modern technology deals and must have prior experience running go-to-market activities including competitive co-design or competitive dialogue.
- Lead a team of two IT Senior Commercial Analysts to develop and support a procurement roadmap for Transformation Programs.
- Ensure Transformation procurement activities are aligned with procurement policies, procedures and processes as driven by Group Procurement and IT Commercial.
- Engage with Transformation stakeholders to develop materials to support go-to-market activities.
- Manage and run RFx activities including facilitating workshops, vendor shortlisting and notification of award or unsuccessful bids.
- Review vendor proposals with a particular focus on commercial outcomes and business benefits in alignment with program and Group strategies.
- Act as the central point of contact for vendors during contract negotiations.
- Facilitate deal working groups between Legal, Transformation, Technology and Business stakeholders to support with key decision making.
- Review contract terms and help deal working groups with understanding the commercial value in contracts and risks introduced within negotiated terms.
- Maintain consistent operating processes for managing vendor partners.
- Facilitate benchmarking research exercises to ensure Endeavour to continue to have the best service options in the market.
- Experience with competitive co-design, competitive dialogue and/or dynamic sourcing processes.

**What You'll Need To Succeed**
- Proven experience in negotiating and managing technology contracts for a large enterprise.
- Solid understanding of technology contracts, implementation contracts and managed service agreements.
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills, demonstrates a logical approach to problem solving.
- Can demonstrate use of initiative, flexibility and innovative thinking.
- Previous experience working with service partners, suppliers, system integrators, etc.
- Experience working in a Digital environment.
- Ability to think customer first and relate solutions back to the customer problem and outcomes
- Enthusiastic and motivated team leader with the ability to coach and grow junior resources
- Excellent collaboration and facilitation skills with an ability to see past problems to solutions
- Ability to work as an effective team member within a complex and fast paced environment
- Eye for detail, and ability to quickly understand requirements and contextualise with an enterprise approach
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