Senior IT Cost and Contracts Manager

Senior IT Cost & Contracts Manager roles at GCB4 level will have a key role in managing Cost Management processes across multiple IT business areas ensuring consistent and adequate governance and controls resulting in effective sanctioning of spend. This will include detailed involvement on cost submissions working with business managers, category managers and COOs to ensure that HSBC is obtaining the best commercial deal and evidencing the cost reduction work undertaken. In this role, there will be specific responsibility for managing the contract lifecycle from an IT perspective for a number of specific contracts, including evaluating renewals of contracts ahead of time, challenging demand / requirements and working collaboratively with technical teams and procurement to obtain an optimal commercial deal. Maintaining the IT contracts calendar for the relevant IT teams including correct articulation of the financial P&L profiles, owning the renewal trigger points and driving subsequent actions will be essential. Furthermore, support will be provided to each area to assist working towards a complete zero-based budgeting approach. Candidate should be commercially aware with expertise in cost or commercial management, sourcing, category management, contract management or contract management and shall be responsible for creating and maintaining a robust governance model in evaluating, reviewing all IT expenditure and proactively driving cost reduction across Technology.