IT Contracts Management - AVP

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details.

IT Contracts Management - AVP   

With your expertise as well as analytical thinking and iterative problem solving, you are an experienced trusted advisor who can set strategy and execute. You can comfortably manage a portfolio of complex programs and processes; contribute to leadership discussions on strategy, budget, and talent; and make sound decisions that drive successful outcomes for the company. In the process, you will have exciting opportunities to grow as a thought leader and see the positive impact of your contribution.

Specifically, in this role you will work closely with technology business unit heads to provide guidance and advisory services to improve contract management. You will engage in key stakeholder governance routines and leadership meetings, facilitating technology contract strategy and providing execution leadership to improve overall contract execution and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with sourcing to maintain comprehensive books of record for technology suppliers and supplier delivery commitments.
• Work with Human Resources and other system owners to help ensure contract resource alignment.
• Work with the Project Management teams to align business unit strategy with annual funding and associated contract request submissions.
• Work with financial management, helping manage financial planning to create cohesive contract product and service alignment.
• Effectively drive sourcing requests, working with all levels of the organization, to ensure quality and timely delivery of required technology contracts.
• Provide clear insight into vendor spend, contract requests, renewals, and other outside costs to enable vendor operations execution.
• Manage reporting and data to enable decision making with respect to sourcing requests and contract planning.

Required Skills:

• At least 3 years of proven experience within a large, highly matrixed organization with recent work related to contracts, standards and governance
• Ability to identify excessive cycle time and/or costs and develop alternative courses of action associated with the contract life cycle
• Proven ability to reach an audience through effective and clear presentations, writing skills and excellent communication strategies
• Good consensus-builder; able to drive requests across multiple stakeholder groups, work through obstacles and remove barriers
• Solid understanding and planning skills in all aspects of the system's/business life cycle.
• Ability to identify irregular data, analyze and resolve data discrepancies
• Strong stakeholder management experience and can quickly establish rapport, credibility, and trust throughout the organization.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering positive results and working within time and budgetary constraints to effectively deliver in support of a contract’s life cycle.
• Advanced systems knowledge with strong capabilities in Ariba, SharePoint, and Excel
• Strong Office 365 and presentation skills
• Effective use of collaboration tools, such as MS Teams and SharePoint
• Strong data analysis skills, working with large sets of data
• Ability to learn and adapt to new capabilities/tools based on business needs
• Experience in the financial services industry preferred
• Understanding and experience with software/hardware contracts preferred

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance or Technology related fields or Equivalent work experience.

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $127-157 K
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $113-150K K

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

MUFG Benefits Summary

 IT Contracts Management - AVP   

With your expertise as well as analytical thinking and iterative problem solving, you are an experienced trusted advisor who can set strategy and execute. You can comfortably manage a portfolio of complex programs and processes; contribute to leadership discussions on strategy, budget, and talent; and make sound decisions that drive successful outcomes for the company. In the process, you will have exciting opportunities to grow as a thought leader and see the positive impact of your contribution.

Specifically, in this role you will work closely with technology business unit heads to provide guidance and advisory services to improve contract management. You will engage in key stakeholder governance routines and leadership meetings, facilitating technology contract strategy and providing execution leadership to improve overall contract execution and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with sourcing to maintain comprehensive books of record for technology suppliers and supplier delivery commitments.
• Work with Human Resources and other system owners to help ensure contract resource alignment.
• Work with the Project Management teams to align business unit strategy with annual funding and associated contract request submissions.
• Work with financial management, helping manage financial planning to create cohesive contract product and service alignment.
• Effectively drive sourcing requests, working with all levels of the organization, to ensure quality and timely delivery of required technology contracts.
• Provide clear insight into vendor spend, contract requests, renewals, and other outside costs to enable vendor operations execution.
• Manage reporting and data to enable decision making with respect to sourcing requests and contract planning.

Required Skills:

• At least 3 years of proven experience within a large, highly matrixed organization with recent work related to contracts, standards and governance
• Ability to identify excessive cycle time and/or costs and develop alternative courses of action associated with the contract life cycle
• Proven ability to reach an audience through effective and clear presentations, writing skills and excellent communication strategies
• Good consensus-builder; able to drive requests across multiple stakeholder groups, work through obstacles and remove barriers
• Solid understanding and planning skills in all aspects of the system's/business life cycle.
• Ability to identify irregular data, analyze and resolve data discrepancies
• Strong stakeholder management experience and can quickly establish rapport, credibility, and trust throughout the organization.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering positive results and working within time and budgetary constraints to effectively deliver in support of a contract’s life cycle.
• Advanced systems knowledge with strong capabilities in Ariba, SharePoint, and Excel
• Strong Office 365 and presentation skills
• Effective use of collaboration tools, such as MS Teams and SharePoint
• Strong data analysis skills, working with large sets of data
• Ability to learn and adapt to new capabilities/tools based on business needs
• Experience in the financial services industry preferred
• Understanding and experience with software/hardware contracts preferred

Education & Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Finance or Technology related fields or Equivalent work experience.

“Visa sponsorship/support is based on business needs. We do not anticipate providing visa sponsorship/support for this position.”

The typical base pay range for this role is as follows:

• New York / New Jersey: $127-157 K
• Non–New York / New Jersey: $113-150K K

depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, and paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

Our hybrid work schedule is four days on-site and work remotely one day per week.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (including (i) the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, (ii) the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, (iii) the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and (iv) the California Fair Chance Act) to the extent that (a) an applicant is not subject to a statutory disqualification pursuant to Section 3(a)(39) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 or Section 8a(2) or 8a(3) of the Commodity Exchange Act, and (b) they do not conflict with the background screening requirements of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the National Futures Association (NFA). The major responsibilities listed above are the material job duties of this role for which the Company reasonably believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship potentially resulting in the withdrawal of conditional offer of employment, if any.The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities duties and skills required of personnel so classified.We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and committed to leveraging the diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experience of our workforce to create opportunities for our colleagues and our business. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender expression, gender identity, sex, age, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran and military status, disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, genetic information, or any other status of an individual or that individual’s associates or relatives that is protected under applicable federal, state, or local law.