Senior IT Vendor Manager

Senior IT Vendor Manager

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This position provides an opportunity to transition from other private, public, government or military experience to a 3M career.

The Impact You’ll Make in this Role

The Senior IT Vendor Manager leads a global portfolio of strategic technology suppliers across hardware, software, SaaS, cloud, infrastructure, and managed services. This role serves as the primary IT relationship owner for assigned suppliers and is accountable for vendor strategy, commercial governance, contract lifecycle management, performance, financial optimization, risk mitigation, compliance, and measurable value realization.

The successful candidate will be a trusted advisor to IT and business leaders and will partner closely with Corporate Procurement, Finance, Legal, Information Security, Enterprise Architecture, IT Asset Management, and technology delivery teams. The role requires strong commercial judgment, executive communication, cross‑functional leadership, and the ability to manage complex supplier relationships in a global environment.

• Develop and execute vendor strategies aligned with enterprise technology roadmaps, sourcing objectives, architecture standards, and business priorities.
• Serve as the IT relationship owner and escalation point for assigned strategic technology suppliers.
• Lead executive governance meetings, quarterly business reviews, supplier scorecards, and performance improvement plans.
• Drive supplier accountability for committed outcomes, innovation, service quality, commercial value, and continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities for vendor consolidation, rationalization, demand management, and improved competitive leverage.

• Lead IT business participation across the contract lifecycle, including new agreements, renewals, amendments, statements of work, cloud commitments, SaaS subscriptions, enterprise license agreements, managed services, and professional services engagements.
• Partner with Corporate Procurement on sourcing strategies, RFQs, RFPs, competitive events, negotiations, and supplier selection.
• Define clear business requirements, deliverables, service levels, acceptance criteria, milestones, pricing structures, termination rights, and commercial protections.
• Maintain forward‑looking visibility to renewals, commitments, risks, dependencies, and decision dates.
• Resolve complex commercial, contractual, service, and relationship escalations through coordinated cross‑functional action.

• Manage strategic software publishers, SaaS providers, cloud providers, infrastructure suppliers, endpoint manufacturers, resellers, and technology service partners.
• Partner with IT Asset Management to improve software entitlement, utilization, compliance, audit readiness, lifecycle management, and retirement decisions.
• Partner with cloud engineering, architecture, Fin Ops, and Finance teams to improve cloud consumption visibility, commitment utilization, forecasting, and cost optimization.
• Coordinate hardware lifecycle, technology refresh, warranty, support, inventory, logistics, and supplier performance considerations with asset and operations teams.
• Ensure commercial models support portability, scalability, resiliency, security, and…