Third Party Contracts Manager

Job Description:

About DXC Bulgaria  

We are DXC - a Fortune 500 global IT services leader. In Bulgaria, we are among the largest employers with over 4,000 employees working on the company's entire IT portfolio. We are flexible - we provide everything you need to comfortably work from home, but we also keep our offices open for collaboration, meetings, and building a strong team spirit. We tailor everyone’s development path to their individual interests through training and additional certifications.

Our experience and desire to grow, our mission, and our values ​​create an environment where ambitious people become successful at home. At home - in Bulgaria.

About the Role

This key role is for a Third-Party Contracts lead required on one of DXC’s “platinum” accounts to lead all activities that relate to third party supplier contracts, including ensuring compliance with prime contract provisions and Financial Services regulatory requirements. This role requires an individual with strong communication skills who can liaise with internal and external (both customer and suppler side) stakeholders. The account is one of the most high-profile accounts in DXC and is highly complex in nature; the successful candidate should have the ability to distill complex requirements into realistic and achievable goals and provide direction to relevant teams accordingly.

Daily challenges

• Provide leadership in ensuring that DXC meets customer contractual and financial regulatory requirements in its use of third-party suppliers.
• Lead account “Third Party Compliance” and “Vendor Risk Management” activities providing day-to-day guidance to relevant teams.
• Define and manage internal processes to ensure ongoing compliance of third parties.
• Negotiate new third-party contracts and contract changes as required to ensure that appropriate risk and regulatory requirements are “flown down”.
• Interact with customer (including audit teams) to demonstrate DXC processes and compliance with regards to third party contracts.
• Provide ongoing advice to account teams regarding legal and commercial implications of specific terms and conditions in third party contracts, including by negotiating, analyzing, drafting and reviewing such contracts.
• Ensure coordination (by providing direction to account “Third Party Compliance” and “Vendor Risk Management” teams) of all required artefacts for new vendor onboarding and annual compliance checks.
• Leadership of monthly Third-Party Contracts Governance Board with client.
• Act as escalation point for third party contract issues.
• Maintain regular reports of third-party compliance issues for account management team.
• Maintain deadlines on deliverables and communicate on an ongoing basis with business partners and internal clients about third party contractual issues.
• Guiding DXC's managers and ensure compliance with rules and regulations.

eXperience and skills required

• Master`s degree in Law; (A Business or Law Degree from a European/ US University is an advantage)
• Professional Fluency in English and strong communication skills.
• 5 years’+ experience in a law firm and/or global corporation. Outsourcing/financial services sector experience would be considered an advantage.
• Ability to provide guidance/interpretation on existing contract provisions.
• Ability to negotiate both on customer and supplier side.
• Demonstrable knowledge and judgment about contractual and commercial risks/issues in transactions.
• Good working knowledge of the fundamental legal provisions of commercial contracts.

Company benefits

• Competitive remuneration package
• Additional Medical & Life insurance
• 4 days additional paid leave (total: 24 days)
• The possibility to work entirely remotely
• Food vouchers
• Training, continuous learning and career development in the largest IT company on the market
• Unlimited access courses from a bunch of external partners for the best learner's experience (e.g., LinkedIn Learning, Udemy)
• Access to a foreign language learning platform
• Stable employment in an international company
• Advancement opportunities within the organization (a variety of interesting projects with the array of technologies and tools)
• Flexibility in work arrangement (hybrid or fully remote work, the home office culture is in our DNA)
• Workplace equipment to organize your home office (e.g., chair, desk, additional monitor, headset etc.)
• DXC Partner courses and certifications (Microsoft, SAP, ServiceNow, AWS, Google, Dell Technologies, IBM, Micro Focus, Salesforce, Red Hat, VMware, Workday)
• Employee Referral Program - a financial bonus for the referrer for successful candidate recommendation
• Employee Recognition Program with points assigned by colleagues for the recognized employees (exchangeable for prizes)
• Employee Assistance Program (providing 24/7 support for employees and their families in difficult life situations)
• Opportunity to join our numerous charity and ecology-related events organized by our Employee Ambassadors team.

We Deliver eXcellence for our Customers and colleagues every day. Our values form the foundation of everything we do and every decision we make.

If you feel comfortable with the above-mentioned requirements, please send us your CV in English. At DXC our employees’ safety and well-being remain a key priority for us. Therefore, we continue with stay-at-home recruiting and video interviewing for the foreseeable future.

Please note only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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