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This role involves the delivery and day-to-day management of IT contracts, collaborating across the IT and Digital teams and with the procurement/supply chain teams to align with the company's strategic goals and deliver optimal value.\nWhat you will be doing\nContract Management: Oversee the day-to-day management of IT and Digital contracts, focusing on performance metrics, reporting, and ensuring that all systems meet performance standards. Recommend changes to contracts to improve efficiency and effectiveness of their delivery.\nCost Reduction: Collaborate with procurement/supply chain and IT and Digital to identify and drive cost-saving initiatives, ensuring that IT contracts deliver maximum value.\nTechnical Strategy: Contribute to the development of technical requirements for future IT and Digital contracts, ensuring that risks and opportunities are aligned with the company's IT and Digital strategy. Provide clear Statements of Requirements to the Supply Chain team for strategy creation and refresh.\nRelationship Management: Manage day-to-day supplier relationships through Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), ensuring that contracts are delivered effectively and efficiently.\nInnovation Roadmaps: Utilising IT and Digital contracts to drive and deliver innovation and contributing to the overall IT and Digital strategy.\nMarket Intelligence: Working with solution architects/suppliers and procurement to understand risk and opportunities.\nContract Compliance: Ensuring technical compliance to the IT and Digital Contracts and collaborating the Procurement/Supply Chain teams where non-compliance is found.\nDispute Resolution: Manage non-financial disputes and support the gathering of evidence for financial disputes, working closely with the Procurement/Supply Chain teams to resolve issues.\nPosition Qualifications:\nAt Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles and for this role we are looking for someone with:\nDemonstrable IT management experience and delivery of results in a regional role, operating within a large multi-national and global organisation\nProven and extensive experience in stakeholder management at senior level (with an operational and / or service delivery bias)\nExposure / experience of a shared services operating model / organisation. ITIL4 or similar qualification preferred. Exceptional influencing skills and able to operate a demanding service orientated organisation. \nSupplier Management (large value 3rd party supplier) experience / exposure\nPlease be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being at high risk. The professional level and the salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate. It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.\nWe are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives. And the more perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of respect and appreciation, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.\nTo work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines Business an individual has to hold a minimum of an Security Check (SC) clearance without any caveats to that clearance. 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