Product Enablement & Transformation, Product Manager - Contract Lifecycle Management, Executive Director, Birmingham

Job Description

OUR IMPATCT The Corporate Planning & Management (CPM) Division unifies Finance & Planning, Spend Management, Operational Risk and Resilience, and CPM Engineering teams to deliver business planning and analytics, expense management, third party risk management, and governancestrategies across the firm. CPM have 5 operating pillars. Finance & Planning supports the execution of the firms strategic objectives through the management of the planning process, firmwide reporting and analytics and insights into the firms business plans and budgets. They develop consistent framework for revenuedivision projections creating transparency, accountability and efficiency around projections. This pillar also includes the CF&O, EO and Engineering divisional CFOs, who are strategic finance advisors helping the firm and the non-revenue divisions achievecommercial financial opportunities. Product Finance is responsible for the overall governance and proactive management of the firms non-compensation expenses. Spend Management encompasses the functions responsible for managing all aspects of the firms spend with third parties - advising commercialagreements and driving operating efficiency. Departments include Strategic Sourcing, Procure to Pay, Integrated Travel and Expense, Infrastructure and Transformation and Sustainable Operations. Operational Risk & Resilience drives firmwide Operational Riskprograms along with second line teams and implements required changes within CPM. The Corporate Insurance & Advisory team in this pillar identifies, procures, and manages corporate insurance needs for the firm and its investing businesses. The CPM Engineeringteam provides engineering solutions that enable the firm to manage third-party spend, data and automation, plan budgets, forecast financial scenarios, allocate expenses and support corporate decision making in-line with the firms strategic objectives. YOUR IMPACT Professionals in CPM have an analytical mindset, exhibit intellectual curiosity and are from diverse academic backgrounds. This role sits within the Spend Management pillar, within Product Enablement & Transformation. The Product Enablement & Transformation team is a global team who enable Goldman Sachs to actively and effectively manage our vendor population, supply chain effectiveness, travel & expense processing & Source-to-Pay activity through the platforms we maintainwithin our architecture. Through excellent functional, project, program, and change management skills, along with a bias for becoming the subject matter or technical expert, this team seeks to fulfil the vision of our clients and partners with employees acrossplatforms like Ariba, S4, Concur & Fieldglass. The Product Enablement & Transformation team work closely with senior leadership, process owners, Spend Management Engineering and our vendors to drive supply chain value and achieve Corporate Planning & Managementsobjectives & key results The role requires collaboration with different functions across the firm on a regular basis, an ability to work independently, and ability to interact with senior professionals across the firm. It also entails in-depth analysis and reporting for senior management,requiring diligence and a commercial mindset. The candidate is required to work closely with global counterparts. Should have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Goldman Sachs is embarking on a journey to uplift our contract lifecycle management process. This includes delivering a contract repository, leveraging standard templates/clause libraries to assist in streamlining contract negotiation and execution and utilizeinbuilt AI tools to abstract key information to be used both for risk assessment and commitment management across our third party vendors. This role will be at the center of that program Job responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Initially, the role will be to create and gain consensus on the business case, building a detailed program plan, showing funding needs, resource needs, benefits, risks and opportunities. You will create a phased delivery plan, showing key milestones todeliver agreed outcomes and business benefits.
• As part of the program leadership team, you will pioneer our execution of the program in partnership with our chosen CLM Vendor - iCertis - alongside any other Professional Services team we may choose to bring in. You will partner across Legal, Sourcing,Operations, Compliance, Tech Risk and other functions to drive consensus and champion the vision for the program.
• As we transition to go live and beyond, your role will be to move into the Product Manager/Owner for iCertis. You will continue to partner with Sourcing, Legal and iCertis to stabilize the operational adoption, continue to enhance and develop the productand drive meaningful impact in this space
• Be required to be involved in change across the E2E platform suite, including tools like Ariba Sourcing & Contracting, Buying & Invoicing, & SLP. You will need to utilize internally built applications to ensure our leadership and business stakeholders haveaccess to up-to-date information and commitment transparency.
• Support wider infrastructure priorities, standards and strategy globally as well as playing leadership roles across various forums or teams.
• Own Product strategy for our Contract Lifecycle Management Product, primarily driving the platform strategy of iCertis, but also partnering across products, enriching data with other data from the data lake to deliver a seamless product experience.
• Focus on user experience, seeking to refine the product and drive user-centric platform strategies to make the buying process seamless, orchestrated, controlled and transparent.
• Adopt data-driven decision making to assist in driving application adoption and success.
• You will look to constantly grow your knowledge and experience, staying close to industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Prioritize flexibility and a how can we make this work approach to the most difficult problems to solve.
• You will become a deep subject matter expert.
• Pro-actively work with the wider team on the day-to-day technical queries related to system logic and perform defect/data analysis as well as support specific audits, internal and external.
• Communicate progress and relevant updates to project drivers, relevant functions and maintain key documentation of approvals where required

Qualifications:

Strong functional skills with 6-8 years of experience in iCertis or similar CLM application.Strong integration experience with other modules within SAP (Ariba, S4 HANA,