HR Contract Manager (Fixed-term Contract)

A Snapshot of Your Day

As a Contract Manager, within People Systems and Services department, you will assist in managing and optimizing vendor relationships to support the company's strategic HR goals. You will help create vendor overviews and contribute to the development of a vendor management framework, including supporting procurement in contract compliance and performance.

Key responsibilities include supporting our team with contractual background knowledge for their operational tasks such as checking to users and change requests and participating in vendor negotiations. As a Contract Manager at Siemens Energy, your day will be dynamic and impactful, providing opportunities to collaborate, analyze, and contribute to an active partnership with external vendors.

Mode of employment : 24 months fixed-term contract

How You Will Make an Impact

• Create vendor overviews: Assist in developing and maintaining a database of existing vendors, ensuring profiles are up-to-date and detailed for informed decision-making.
• Develop contractual structures: You will also support the development of our own vendor management platform and IT landscape for change request management with multiple vendors.
• Engage in RfI and RfP initiatives: Support the execution of Requests for Information and Proposals, evaluating vendor submissions to identify suitable options for the organization.
• Participate in negotiations: Assist in vendor negotiations to help secure favorable terms and conditions, ensuring beneficial agreements for both parties.
• Support risk management: Help identify potential risks in vendor relationships and contribute to developing strategies to mitigate them, ensuring vendor reliability.
• Invoice verification and forecasting: Take responsibility for verifying vendor invoices, ensuring alignment with contractual terms and delivere.

• Strong academic background, preferably a Master's degree in Law, Information Technology, Business Administration, Human Resources, or a related field.
• Experience in vendor management, procurement, legal or project management, preferably within the HR domain.
• A strong financial mindset to understand and manage contract implications.
• Ability to learn fast in complex environments and adapt to new challenges.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including empathy and networking abilities, to build and maintain vendor relationships.
• Fluency in English is essential; proficiency in German is a plus.

About the Team

You will be working within the Human Resources function, a truly global and diverse team of specialists with an open mindset, responsible for guaranteeing operational performance and budget adherence of HR systems & services, ensuring and maintaining fit???for???purpose HR systems and processes, safeguarding end???to???end delivery while promoting Siemens Energy's digital transformation. You will get all the trust and empowerment to be successful.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100,000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy:

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character ??? no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/ Benefits

• Stay safe and healthy with our medical subscription.
• Take care of yourself with our Wellbeing Initiatives.
• Career growth and development
• Flexible work culture & well-being
• Being part of an international and open-minded team.

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