Strategic Vendor Partnership Manager

COMPANY INTRODUCTION

Emirates NBD is a market leader across the MENAT (Middle East, North Africa and Türkiye) region with a presence in 13 countries, serving over 20 million customers. The Emirates NBD Group has a total of 853 branches and 4,213 ATMs / SDMs. Emirates NBD is the leading financial services brand in the UAE with a Brand value of USD 3.89 billion.

At the bank, we serve our customers and help them realise their financial objectives through a range of banking products and services including retail banking, corporate & institutional banking, Islamic banking, investment banking, private banking, asset management, global markets and treasury, and brokerage operations.

We are a key participant in the global digital banking industry, with 97% of all financial transactions and requests conducted outside of our branches. We also operate Liv, the lifestyle digital bank by Emirates NBD. With close to half a million users, it continues to be the fastest-growing digital bank in the region.

IT Vendor Management provides a structure for aligning IT strategy with business strategy. By following a formal framework, that can produce measurable results toward achieving the strategies and goals. It also takes stakeholders' interests into account, as well as the needs of staff and the processes that is followed.

• The Manager - Global Vendor Management is responsible for managing key strategic third-party vendor partner relationships of the Bank throughout their life cycle thereby ensuring that the Bank maintains an effective Vendor Management Program in compliance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations. Responsible for the direct management of third-party relationships between key strategic vendors and business partners;

understands the complete breadth of professional services and related risks provided by vendors and current support services for relevant technology teams.

JOB PURPOSE

The purpose of this role is to :

Vendor Service Levels –Implement KPIs for all IT services outsourced and periodically monitoring the same Governance management to monitor and improve vendor performance,

Assess quality of services on a regular basis and suggest necessary mitigation action

Adherence to operational, financial, and contractual obligations

Ensure optimum value delivery of IT services delivered in terms of offshoring and outsourcing outcomes from respective chapters and locations

Manage relationship with respective business stakeholders

Provide inputs to rightsourcing strategy

Work closely with resource management team on demand for respective chapters and locations and coordinate with vendor partner on demand management requests

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WHY JOIN US ?

We aspire to be an employee’s employer of choice. We believe, we can help you realize your true potential by providing the right opportunities. At Emirates NBD we are reimagining the future of work so that you can unlock your potential, every day we want to ensure, every employee can exceed in the future of work by upskilling, building new digital skills and knowledge. Our goal is to empower our employees to build career experiences and skills they need in the future and that will produce a great outcome for our bank as well, we want our employees no matter their background, location, preferences to feel engaged to one Emirates NBD team.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications for each role and apply for any positions that match their skills and capabilities. ENBD is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment, however due to high volume of applicants, only SHORTLISTED candidates will be contacted .