About the Role
The IT Commercial Operations Analyst serves as BTech’s commercial hub, owning the end-to-end lifecycle of technology contracts, leading vendor negotiations, 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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Create and execute a standardized process for the review and remediation of existing IT vendor contracts and MSAs.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Conduct ad hoc vendor analysis and reporting as requested by leadership.
- Partner with product managers and domain leads on technology procurement decisions, providing data-driven recommendations.
- Support hardware procurement analysis including server cost comparisons and reseller negotiations.
- Coordinate vendor scorecards assessing SLA adherence, support responsiveness, roadmap alignment, commercial fairness, and escalation handling.
- Apply a vendor criticality assessment framework using weighted scoring.
- Manage vendor tiering (Strategic, Operational, Transactional) with appropriate engagement cadences.
- Coordinate periodic business reviews with strategic vendors, tracking KPIs and performance against SLAs.
- Identify and implement improvements to ordering practices, invoicing workflows, and chargeback processes.
- Evaluate opportunities to automate manual procurement and contract management tasks.
- Support future expansion into adjacent procurement areas such as mobile device lifecycle management.
- Own contract data accuracy, renewal notifications, and documentation hygiene across all platforms.
Requirements
- 5–8 years in IT/SaaS procurement, vendor management, or technology sourcing.
- Demonstrated experience negotiating enterprise software agreements (SaaS, MSAs, SOWs).
- Comfortable reading and redlining contracts without full legal support.
- Familiarity with ITSM platforms and contract management systems.
- Experience with vendor criticality assessments and tiering frameworks.
- Construction or professional services industry experience.
- Experience building vendor scorecards and performance management programs.
- Knowledge of perpetual-to-SaaS licensing conversion strategies.
- Experience with hardware procurement and reseller relationship management.
Skills
- Strong analytical skills with ability to build and maintain spend tracking using BI and reporting tools.
- Understanding of SaaS contract structures including per-seat, consumption-based, and enterprise agreement models.
- BI and reporting tools (spend reporting, dashboards, and ad hoc analysis).
- Contract repository, clause library, and policy documentation.
Experience Level
- 5-8 years
Salary/Compensations
- $115,000.00 - $145,000.00
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, 401(k) with company matching, Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP), individual stock ownership, paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid holidays, bereavement leave, employee assistance program, pre-tax flexible spending accounts, basic term life insurance and AD&D, business travel accident insurance, short and long term disability, financial wellness coaching, educational assistance, Care.com membership, ClassPass fitness membership, and DashPass delivery membership.
- Voluntary benefits include additional term life insurance, long term care insurance, critical illness and accidental injury insurance, pet insurance, legal plan, identity theft protection, and other voluntary benefit options.
About the Company
- The IT Commercial Operations Analyst serves as BTech’s commercial hub.
