Manager – Technology Service Contracts

Job Description:

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 22.5 Hours per week

Location: Hybrid working, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley

Contract: Job Share / 3 days per week

Closing Date: 1st March 2025

Virgin Atlantic is a ground-breaking long-haul airline. Committed to protecting the planet, whilst bringing the social and economic benefits of connectivity and trade to the destinations and communities we serve. At Virgin Atlantic, we’re committed to innovation, pioneering change through partnership, and being transparent in our progress.

In a nutshell

This is a Job Share Opportunity, 3 days per week.

The Contract Manager will report to the Technology Commercial Manager and be encouraged as the single point of contact (SPOC) between nominated strategic suppliers and VAL. They will be encouraged to have a strong grasp on VAL commercials, work prioritization, and the strategic roadmap dependencies. Working closely with all areas of the business will be key, influencing at the Senior Leadership Group level and occasionally at board level when required.

This role is essential for improving the supplier capabilities, opportunities, and return on investment to support our VelocityX plan.

Day to day

Monitoring and effecting contract alignment, ensuring suppliers align with SLAs for operational services delivered.
Conduct regular, formal supplier service reviews to examine past performance and facilitate future development of services in line with business objectives.
Ensure all contract information is up to date and held with the legal department and is inputted by legal into the contracts database
Help resolve ongoing issues and challenges, with Suppliers to ensure the delivery of desired outcomes and help maintain and monitor progress of service improvements
Produce and negotiate Agreement Schedules with suppliers working with Procurement as appropriate
Responsible for providing commercial input into IPs and Business Cases (costs, resourcing etc.) and liaising with Technology teams to facilitate project delivery.
Collaborate with key stakeholders to forecast and oversee supplier spend in the Technology Opex Budgets
Assembly and publication of performance metrics in scorecards or other reports as agreed
Manage the interaction of multiple service/product providers
Work with Enterprise Architecture and Delivery to undertake impact assessments of the commercial element of proposed initiatives
Co-ordinate suppliers and manage commercial aspects of internal audits relating to technology services.

About you

Solid, demonstratable understanding of technology contract management ideally gained during contract, commercial or procurement background
Experience in management of contracts in excess of 5M TCV
Proficient negotiator with demonstrated ability to improve benefits over costs.
Able to clearly communicate complex technical and commercial interdependencies to collaborators and can break down business requirements into technical dependencies.
Excellent collaborator and communication skills. Ability to tune approach to suit suppliers and collaborators is a must.
Help drive a collaborative, partnership supplier culture that is based on shared long-term goals

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Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, (recruitmentfly.virgin.com) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.

Job Ident #: 2581

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en

Virgin Atlantic uses a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and operates to destinations in North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and Asia from its main hub at London–Heathrow, and its secondary hub at Manchester

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Job Info

Location

Crawley , England, United Kingdom

Type

Permanent

Company Details

Virgin Atlantic

Fleming Way
Crawley, England United Kingdom, International RH10 9DF International
www.virginatlantic.com/us/en