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Your career opportunity
This is a leadership role within the Technology sourcing leadership group with direct responsibility for leading, developing and managing a global team to deliver against set targets as well as contributing to the wider Tech Sourcing initiatives. In this role, you will engage with multiple senior stakeholders, develop strong relationships, influence strategy and be seen as a trusted partner. You will be accountable for in-country operational leadership of local workforce.
The primary purpose of the Technology Cost & Contract management is to govern all third-party IT spend for HSBC Technology (c$3bn) including managing and continuously improving the Cost Management processes. In This role will include working with the IT CIOs, COOs, Architecture, Category and supporting teams to optimise IT utilisation of third-party hardware, software, resources, and associated IT services (including non-permanent workforce) to maximise value and cost savings to HSBC.
In this role, there will be specific responsibility for managing the contract lifecycle from an IT perspective for several 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.
You will need to maintain and observe HSBC internal control standards, implement and observe Group Compliance Policy. Demonstrate adherence to internal controls.
This will be achieved by adherence to all relevant procedures, keeping appropriate records and, where appropriate, by the timely implementation of internal and external audit points, including issues raised by external regulators.
What you’ll do
- Impact on the Business / Function
- Driving sustainable growth. Develop the IT sub-function responsibly, engaging with colleagues across the function including peer Senior Managers and typically 2 levels up the organisation reviewing and driving the sub-function strategy feeding into the overall IT strategy. Leads and facilitates change through effective communication, preparation and implementation with peers across HSBC. Strong impact to support risk and regulation. Lead global joint commercial projects.
- Achieving excellence. Focuses on medium- and long-term goals even when under pressure or facing uncertainty. Manages expectations, results and impact of agreed outcomes, thinking ahead to identify and overcome potential issues, benefiting from a good network of Senior Managers to collectively identify and mitigate risk.
- Contracts Management –helps to ensure that contracts are renewed in a timely manner including approval via cost management processes and signoffs / stakeholder management.
- Management Information – support creation of MI against contract database and third party spend.
- Architecture engagement- support Architecture teams from a commercial perspective to ensure outcomes are aligned to Technology/Business strategies.
- Customers / Stakeholders
- The role holder will work collaboratively with Senior Managers from other areas in IT to ensure stakeholder and customers’ requirements are met.
- Customer/Stakeholder focus. Lead a customer-centred culture, championing activities encouraging outstanding customer advocacy. Proactively seek opportunities to improve business operation in collaboration within assigned function area and Procurement amongst others.
- Strengthening stakeholder relationships. Build trusting relationships to influence decisions and ensure stakeholder advocacy, using organisational knowledge aligned to business goals and strategies.
- Deliver fair outcomes for our customers and ensure own conduct maintains the orderly and transparent operation of financial markets.
- Leadership & Teamwork
- Work with team and senior managers to deliver IT contract management and commercial awareness solutions and support to technology teams.
- Managing and leading. Gathers all relevant information from a wide range of resources and MI to clarify the issue at hand and to better inform the decision-making process. Establishes methods and criteria to observe progress and achieve excellence in all aspects of delivery to meet our customers’ requirements. Establishes effective relationships across the business structure/matrix to ensure better engagement and better quality and effectiveness of deployment. Ensure succession planning in place to maintain technical capability of team.
- Collaboration. Builds rapport and mutual understanding to communicate and create opportunities for cross-business and/or international working, encouraging debate and open discussion. Encourages people to build sustainable relationships beyond transactional levels and use empathy and insight to build better understanding of mutual benefits.
- Coaching. Use expertise to develop both high and poor performers and share knowledge by coaching and sponsoring training solutions where appropriate. Analyses pattern and identifies key areas for improvement, specifically towards junior members of the team.
- Operational Effectiveness & Control
- Work with team and senior managers working with technical teams, procurement and suppliers in advance of renewals and required purchases to optimise volumes, challenge requirements and achieve optimal pricing for the organisation.
- Managing risk responsibly. Sustain a risk aware culture. Promotes and manages relevant monitoring and reporting requirements within their team. Embeds efficient risk, compliance processes and procedures (FIMs, GSMs etc.) and external regulatory requirements, including the management of Operational Risk and adherence to the Group’s standards of ethical behaviour.
- Business case & benefits realisation. Defines and articulates to stakeholders the targeted benefits for a change intervention. Demonstrates effective financial skills to develop a detailed business case, including investments, detailed benefits (financial, non-financial and strategic) and link to overall finances of the business.
What you need to have to succeed in this role
- Experience and proven track record in vendor, cost and commercial management including cost reduction / optimisation programmes.
- Expert knowledge on IT Infrastructure technical platforms / technologies, execution of IT vendor management policies.
- Good understanding of the IT global delivery model and future roadmap
- Strong leadership and management skills together with the ability to motivate staff from a variety of backgrounds, as well to work in a multi geography, culturally diverse and time-zone separated management role.
- Good communications skills and ability to motivate and communicate at all levels of the organization as well analytical skills with the ability to understand and resolve problems.
What we offer
- Competitive salary
- Annual performance-based bonus
- Additional bonuses for recognition awards
- Multisport card
- Private medical care
- Life insurance
- One-time reimbursement of home office set-up (up to 800 PLN).
- Corporate parties & events
- CSR initiatives
- Nursery discounts
- Financial support with trainings and education
- Social fund
- Flexible working hours
- Free parking
If your CV meets our criteria, you should expect the following steps in the recruitment process:
- Online behavioural test (for external candidates only)
- Telephone screen (for external candidates only)
- Zoom interview with the hiring manager
We are looking to hire as soon as possible so don’t wait and apply now!
You'll achieve more when you join HSBC.
We thank all interested candidates for their applications. We reserve the right to contact only selected candidates.
In case you would like to resign from participation in recruitment process or withdraw previously sent to us application, please email us at: krakow.recruitment@hsbc.com