Description
Position: IT Vendor and Contracts Administrator
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Columbia, SC
Job Requirements:
- Vendor relationship management, contract negotiation/management, and/or IT procurement - 10 years
- Moderate understanding of a distributed system IT Infrastructure
- Strong Mainframe or distributed systems contract negotiation skills
- Familiarity with Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR)
Job description:
- Assists in the acquisition, negotiation, and renewal functions related to IT vendor contracts.
- Evaluate and determine the most cost-effective and efficient means of acquiring IT hardware, software, and services.
- Ensure contracts/licenses will cover potential scope and use of IT hardware, software, and services.
- Continually seeks optimal value in service from vendors, reviewing and monitoring performance and ROI metrics and initiating contract modifications.
- Monitors existing contracts, renegotiations, and renewal agreements.
- Qualifies vendors and provides information needed to maintain an appropriate vendor database and tracking system to manage the contract life cycle process.