Supplier & Contract Mgmnt Assistant (4 mths TEMPORARY ROLE)

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your experience to a world-class company that is market-leading for both content and technology? If yes, we are looking for you!

Join Our Team! The Supplier & Contract Management Assistant is responsible for ensuring the delivery of some of Thomson Reuters' largest global managed services agreements through rigorous governance in order to achieve maximum value for investment.

The Contract Management Assistant performs the ongoing and daily activities for managing global contracts.

About the Role

In this opportunity as a Supplier & Contract Management Assistant, you will be responsible to:

• Coordinate governance activities between Thomson Reuters stakeholders and strategic suppliers
• Act as an escalation point, liaising with the business, Technology Sourcing, Procurement Operations, and Procurement Legal, as necessary
• Control costs and limit financial risk and exposure, liaising with Finance and other teams and stakeholders as necessary
• Ensure contract deliverables and obligations, as well as stakeholder expectations, are met
• Provide obligation and commercial risk/issue management to deliver greater transparency/improved controls and reduced risk perimeter for managed services
• Diagnose supplier performance issues relating to the contract, as well as create and secure buy-in (internal and supplier) for plans to improve supplier performance
• Implement best practice commercial governance to reduce leakage (i.e., ensure that agreements are providing the value that was contemplated in the business case) including adoption of a commercial issues register
• Implement strategic vendor scorecards and sophisticated relationship management to track vendor performance and drive desired behaviors and outcomes
• Build and enhance relationships with strategic suppliers in partnership with the service delivery management teams in order to achieve exceptional levels of service quality whilst maintaining best-in-class commercial terms and conditions
• Represent Contract & Commercial Management in governance forums with strategic suppliers and actively participate in those forums specific to contract and commercial matters in order to help ensure that all contractual terms and conditions are met, initiatives are performing against business case, and that issues and disputes are resolved in a timely manner

• Proactively manage the global managed services suppliers to industry best practices
• Drive achievement of contracted deliverables and obligations
• Perform rigorous issue management and resolve vendor disputes through advanced negotiation and relationship management

• Advanced English proficiency both written and oral. candidates will be tested before joining a selection process.
• Advanced fluency in contract terminology (including legal and business terms and SLAs) and ability to navigate complex contracts
• Rigorous attention to detail and expert analytics and ability to interpret terms and conditions
• Strong business acumen with ability to navigate and analyze complex commercials of a deal
• Strong ability to manage a varied range of stakeholders
• Excellent (external and internal) relationship management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Advanced strategic thinking and communications skills
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as SharePoint and Teams
• Strong project management skills and the ability to drive vendor and stakeholder deliverables

• Experience in contract management / vendor management discipline, including experience of successful management of global managed service agreements in excess of USD 20m value
• Combined 3 years of experience in contract management, vendor management, strategic sourcing, and/or contract-related discipline
• Experience working directly with senior leaders

• Hybrid Work Model: We've adopted a flexible hybrid working environment (2-3 days a week in the office depending on the role) for our office-based roles while delivering a seamless experience that is digitally and physically connected.
• Flexibility & Work-Life Balance: Flex My Way is a set of supportive workplace policies designed to help manage personal and professional responsibilities, whether caring for family, giving back to the community, or finding time to refresh and reset. This builds upon our flexible work arrangements, including work from anywhere for up to 8 weeks per year, empowering employees to achieve a better work-life balance.
• Career Development and Growth: By fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development, we prepare our talent to tackle tomorrow's challenges and deliver real-world solutions. Our Grow My Way programming and skills-first approach ensures you have the tools and knowledge to grow, lead, and thrive in an AI-enabled future.
• Industry Competitive Benefits: We offer comprehensive benefit plans to include flexible vacation, two company-wide Mental Health Days off, access to the Headspace app, retirement savings, tuition reimbursement, employee incentive programs, and resources for mental, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• Culture: Globally recognized, award-winning reputation for inclusion and belonging, flexibility, work-life balance, and more. We live by our values: Obsess over our Customers, Compete to Win, Challenge (Y)our Thinking, Act Fast / Learn Fast, and Stronger Together.
• Social Impact: Make an impact in your community with our Social Impact Institute. We offer employees two paid volunteer days off annually and opportunities to get involved with pro-bono consulting projects and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) initiatives.
• Making a Real-World Impact: We are one of the few companies globally that helps its customers pursue justice, truth, and transparency. Together, with the professionals and institutions we serve, we help uphold the rule of law, turn the wheels of commerce, catch bad actors, report the facts, and provide trusted, unbiased information to people all over the world.