Job offer : Contract Manager (M/F)

Actual Talent, a specialist in the recruitment of executives and managers, is supporting a leading international group in the recruitment of its future Group IT Contract Manager (M/F).

In a context of transformation and structuring of its IT governance, our client wishes to strengthen the control of its contractual commitments, optimize the performance of its technology partners, and secure its IT investments.

Reporting to the Group CIO, within the IT Governance and Performance department, you will occupy a strategic and cross-functional role, at the interface of IT, Procurement, Legal, Finance teams, and suppliers.

Your challenge: to guarantee the economic, operational, and contractual performance of the Group's IT commitments throughout their entire lifecycle.

Your missionsAs a true reference for IT Contract Management, you will be involved from the construction of contracts to their renewal or reversibility.

Structure and secure contractual commitments

• Contribute to the preparation of consultations and the formalization of contractual requirements.

• Support the Procurement and Legal departments in negotiations with IT suppliers.

• Define and challenge service level agreements (SLA), billing models, penalties, and reversibility clauses.

• Ensure the consistency of contractual commitments with the Group's operational and economic needs.

Drive contract and supplier performance

• Build and maintain a consolidated repository of the Group's IT contracts.

• Supervise a portfolio of contracts covering, in particular, outsourcing, infrastructure, application services, SaaS solutions, cloud, software licenses, and telecommunications.

• Monitor performance commitments, analyze KPIs and SLAs, and drive corrective actions.

• Prepare and lead supplier governance bodies at operational, tactical, and strategic levels.

• Manage contractual amendments and measure their financial impacts.

Optimize costs and manage risks

• Ensure the monitoring of financial commitments, check the consistency of billing, and identify budget drifts.

• Challenge economic models and seek cost optimization levers.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory and security requirements, particularly GDPR, NIS2, and internal policies.

• Anticipate contractual deadlines and organize renewals, renegotiations, or competitive bidding.

• Secure reversibility plans and support transitions between service providers.

The profile we are looking forYou have confirmed experience, ideally at least 5 to 8 years, in IT Contract Management, supplier governance, IT procurement, or management of technology providers.

You have developed concrete expertise in managing complex IT contracts, particularly in outsourcing, managed services, or vendor contracts, with significant financial stakes.

You master

• IT contractual mechanisms: SLA, penalties, units of work, audit, benchmark, and reversibility clauses.

• Economic models of IT services and licensing, SaaS, and cloud mechanisms.

• Financial management of contracts: budget monitoring, cost analysis, TCO, and commitment optimization.

• Supplier governance and contractual performance management.

• Operational challenges of infrastructure, application, and cloud environments.

Experience within an international group or a multi-entity organization will be an asset.

Fluent professional English is essential, given the international dimension of the position.

Your qualities for successBeyond your technical and contractual expertise, we are looking for a personality capable of combining rigor, perspective, and negotiation skills.

You know how to defend your organization's interests while building lasting relationships with your partners.

Autonomous, structured, and proactive, you appreciate transformation environments in which you can evolve practices, implement methods, and contribute directly to the performance of the IT department.

Your ability to communicate with both technical stakeholders and functional departments will be decisive.

Why join this project?

• A cross-functional and exposed position, at the heart of the Group IT governance.

• An international scope, with interactions with different entities and business departments.

• Concrete performance and optimization challenges, focusing on structuring technology contracts.

• A function to structure and develop, leaving real room for initiative and continuous improvement.

• A transformation environment, offering the opportunity to contribute directly to the professionalization of IT contractual management.