IT Commercial Lead

**Company Description** Let’s create a more sociable future together**

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you
- ** Be uniquely you, come as you are**:

- ** Be a key player with a large scale transformation project**:

- ** Make tangible change within an industry leading business**

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.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

- 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.

**Qualifications**
Now let’s talk about you:

- 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
- Comfortable with ambiguity
- Excellent verbal and written communication and influencing skills
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills with the ability to influence stakeholders at various levels.

**The benefits are good too**
- We offer flexible working in every sense
- An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs
- Monthly meeting-free days
- Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing