OFSE Digital Software Portfolio Manager

About Us!

Baker Hughes (NYSE: BKR), an energy technology company and the world’s first and only full stream provider of integrated oilfield products, services, and digital solutions. With over a century of experience and operations in more than 120 countries, Baker Hughes leverages its global scale and local expertise to help customers produce energy more efficiently and sustainably.

We combine digital technologies, industrial capabilities, and domain expertise to optimize operations across the energy value chain. Our mission is to bring energy to the world in smarter and safer ways.

Join our Digital Technology Team

The OFSE Digital Software Portfolio Manager within the OFSE Digital and DT Vendor Management Office (VMO) is responsible for managing and optimizing OFSE Digital and DT software portfolio, establishing a governance framework to ensure compliance, cost efficiency, and strategic alignment with business objectives. This role combines portfolio oversight, vendor governance, and financial management to maximize value from software investments.

This position also plays an important role in cross-functional collaboration, working closely with sourcing, IT, legal, and business leaders to ensure vendor engagements are aligned with enterprise standards and evolving digital needs. By leveraging data-driven insights and maintaining strong vendor partnerships, the role supports innovation, scalability, and continuous improvement across the OFSE Digital ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

Portfolio Management:

• Oversee the lifecycle of the Digital and IT Oilfield Service & Equipment software portfolio, with a primary focus on SAP/ERP solutions, including licensing, renewals, and vendor performance management
• Maintain an accurate inventory of software assets and licenses and other key metrics.

Vendor Governance & Compliance:

• Establish and monitor governance standards, procedures, and KPIs across key software vendors
• Ensure adherence to contractual obligations, SLAs, and compliance.

Financial Oversight:

• Monitor consumption, usage, and overall spending, to identify cost-saving opportunities, and optimize budgets
• Conduct regular risk assessments reviews.

Strategic Collaboration:

• Partner with business, sourcing, legal, procurement, IT and compliance teams to negotiate favorable terms and mitigate risks
• Drive innovation through vendor collaboration and technology enablement.

Performance Management:

• Implement vendor scorecards and performance metrics
• Partner with IT leadership, sourcing and legal to capture business requirements and ensure post signature contract performance
• Conduct reviews to ensure service quality and operational excellence.

Audit & Reporting:

• Conduct periodic audit risk assessment and compliance reviews
• Preparing reports for senior management and supporting internal/external audits.

Fuel your passion:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Technology or related field.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience in vendor management, software portfolio management, or commercial contracting preferably handling enterprise software, IT vendor management, or large-scale SAP/ERP system integration implementations
• Extensive hands-on experience managing enterprise-scale software contracts, including SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite
• Proven ability to influence and negotiate effectively in a business environment
• Excellent stakeholder management and relationship-building skills
• Excellent organizational skills and a proactive, ownership-driven mindset
• Critical thinking capability, with a demonstrated track record of driving cost savings, operational efficiencies, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business, Economic, or Technology
• Knowledge of digital transformation and emerging technologies
• Experience in designing and implementing governance frameworks across the vendor lifecycle, ensuring compliance with contractual obligations, SLAs, and regulatory requirements.

Live the Baker Hughes values every day:

• Grow – see challenges as opportunities, and learn every day
• Collaborate – inspire, be inclusive, and bring out the best in each other
• Lead – make, invent, and perform with impact
• Care – do the right thing, always, for our customers, our people, and the environment

Work in a way that works for you.
We recognize that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone. In this role, we can confidently offer the following flexible working patterns:
•    Remote working where appropriate subject to the demands and needs of the role.
•    Working flexible hours - flexing the times when you work in the day to help you fit in everything in and work when you are the most productive.

Working with us
Our people are at the heart of what we do at Baker Hughes. We know we are better when all our people are developed, engaged and able to bring their whole authentic selves to work. We invest in the health and well-being of our workforce, train and reward talent and develop leaders at all levels to bring out the best in each other.

The Good Stuff
We believe in rewarding our people with a package that reflects how much we value their input. Join us, and you can expect:
•    Generous annual leave and money to spend on wellbeing activities.
•    Life assurance and income protection
•    Private medical cover
•    A defined contributory savings plan
•    Additional elected benefits.

About Us
At Baker Hughes, we are transforming the future of energy. With operations in over 120 countries, we develop and deploy industry-leading technologies and services to take energy forward. For more than a century, our inventions have revolutionized energy. Today, we bring our expertise to make oil and gas safer, cleaner, and more efficient.

Join us.
Are you seeking an opportunity to make a real difference in a company that values ideas and new ways of thinking? Come join us and grow with a team of people who will challenge and inspire you!

Baker Hughes is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.