Compensation Range:
$115,000.00 - $145,000.00 Annual Salary
Job Description Summary:
The IT Commercial Operations Analyst serves as BTech’s commercial hub; owning the end-to-end lifecycle of technology contracts, leading vendor negotiations with a structured playbook, and providing spend visibility across IT vendor and contract investments. This role is accountable for redesigning and continuously improving the IT contract lifecycle to reduce cycle time, eliminate unnecessary handoffs, and centralize contract accountability. The Analyst owns contract lifecycle management, supports vendor performance and risk oversight, and provides clear insight into technology spend, obligations, and opportunities for optimization.
Job Description:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES — CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
- Review all inbound IT vendor contracts, SOWs, and MSAs for accuracy, risk, and compliance before routing for signature
- Redline agreements in collaboration with Legal, flagging non-standard terms, liability exposure, and entity naming errors
- Ensure contracts clearly define data ownership, access, retention, and extraction rights to support application decommissioning, legal compliance, and end-of-life system transitions
- Create and execute a standardized process for the review and remediation of existing IT vendor contracts and MSAs to ensure compliance with current insurance, cybersecurity, data protection, SLAs, disaster recovery, termination, and client/owner requirements
- Maintain a standard clause library and contract templates to accelerate review cycles
- Own the contract fast-track vs. full-path triage process, routing agreements appropriately
- Apply Gartner’s SaaS contract negotiation framework covering 40+ critical terms across pricing, usage rights, risk/compliance, and exit provisions
- Lead negotiations on all IT vendor agreements using a structured escalation playbook
- Benchmark vendor pricing against market rates and challenge vendors on cost, scope, and SLA terms
- Coordinate with domain leads to consolidate vendor touchpoints and avoid redundant contracts
- Regularly monitor and improve procurement processes for effectiveness and optimization
GOVERNANCE
- Enforce BTech’s signing authority policy ensuring no contract is executed by unauthorized personnel
- Serve as a trusted proxy for BTech leadership by representing approved commercial, risk, and contractual positions in vendor negotiations
- Maintain an active log of who is authorized to sign at what threshold
- Educate and communicate signing authority policy to BTech and operating company stakeholders
- Route final agreements to authorized signatories with a prepared summary and recommendation
- Ensure all required risk, cybersecurity, and AI reviews are completed prior to contract execution
Budget Tracking & Spend Visibility
- Maintain a live IT vendor spend register across all technology-managed contracts
- Support BTech’s broader OPEX/CAPEX budget administration as the function matures
- Build and maintain spend dashboards for leadership using appropriate BI and reporting tools
- Tag spend by vendor, domain, business value category, and cost type to enable reporting slices
- Partner with Finance as the chargeback model evolves
- Track license utilization across key platforms and identify underused or redundant contracts
- Support annual and quarterly budget planning with spend forecasts and renewal projections
- Track cost savings and value realization resulting from negotiations and contract optimization
- Produce portfolio-level reporting for executive consumption, summarizing vendor obligations, spend trends, and optimization opportunities
Ad Hoc Analysis & Reporting
