100% REMOTE (Must be UK based)

When you join Turnitin, you'll be welcomed into a company that is a recognized innovator in the global education space. For more than 20 years, Turnitin has partnered with educational institutions to promote honesty, consistency, and fairness across all subject areas and assessment types. Over 16,000 academic institutions, publishers, and corporations use our services: Gradescope by Turnitin, iThenticate, Turnitin Feedback Studio, Turnitin Originality, Turnitin Similarity, ExamSoft, and ProctorExam.

Turnitin has offices in Australia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Our diverse community of colleagues are all unified by a shared desire to make a difference in education. Come join us, and let's make change together.

As an IT Vendor Management Analyst you will be responsible for leading and contributing to the development of IT vendor management policies, processes, and workflows to elevate Turnitin's IT vendor management capabilities.  You will perform financial spend and qualitative analysis of the IT vendor portfolio, and lead efforts to rationalize and consolidate vendor contracts and existing solutions where possible.  You will be responsible for creating and managing a catalog of IT vendor contracts and implement reporting for vendor performance and forecasts for vendor spend and contract expirations.  You will engage in efforts to improve Turnitin's Hardware/Software Asset and SaaS management capabilities, focusing on vendor spend, licensing management, purchasing, renewals, and creating methods for internal showback and/or chargeback of IT costs.   You will serve as point person to coordinate activities with Legal, Sourcing, Procurement, Finance and IT to conduct contract due diligence for new IT contracts so you will bring a collaborative approach to your work.  And, you will have FUN!

• Assist Leadership in directing and optimizing IT vendor management strategy and initiatives
• Lead and/or contribute to the development of IT  vendor management policies, risk registers, processes, and workflows
• Perform financial spend and qualitative analysis of the IT vendor portfolio, lead efforts to rationalize and consolidate vendors and solutions where possible with a focus on cost optimization while ensuring minimal impact to stakeholders
• Contribute to reporting on IT vendor contracts, performance, risk, and relationships to key stakeholders and vendors
• Serve as point person to coordinate activities with Legal, Sourcing, Procurement, Finance and IT to conduct contract due diligence; and to set up and maintain an asset management program that address: hardware refresh schedules, software license reviews, purchasing, cataloging, upgrades, renewals, harvesting and retiring
• Facilitate the maintenance of agreements with IT vendors, and ensure that they are current/up to date and compliant with relevant laws and regulations, including software license compliance

• Minimum of 5 years experience supporting vendor management, contracts, and procurement, or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential functions of the job
• Committed to continuous learning and sharing of that learning
• Strong technical foundation with demonstrated business, data, and financial analysis skills
• Ability to translate and communicate complex concepts in relatable terms
• Capable of achieving conflict resolution of complex and financially significant contracts achieving successful outcome while building and preserving relationships
• Demonstrated experience reviewing and negotiating complex technology contracts
• Experience leading tool rationalization efforts; working across multiple teams to gain consensus and alignment on tool usage and selection
• Experience with IT Asset (Hardware/Software) Management lifecycle and processes 
• Strong working knowledge of procurement practices
• Experience interfacing effectively with diverse and senior stakeholder groups (Finance, Legal, IT, Security)

Our Mission is to ensure the integrity of global education and meaningfully improve learning outcomes. 

Our Values underpin everything we do.

• Customer Centric - We realize our mission to ensure integrity and improve learning outcomes by  putting educators and learners at the center of everything we do.
• Passion for Learning - We seek out teammates that are constantly learning and growing and build a workplace which enables them to do so.
• Integrity - We believe integrity is the heartbeat of Turnitin. It shapes our products, the way we treat each other, and how we work with our customers and vendors.
• Action & Ownership - We have a bias toward action and empower teammates to make decisions.
• One Team - We strive to break down silos, collaborate effectively, and celebrate each other’s successes.
• Global Mindset - We respect local cultures and embrace diversity. We think globally and act locally to maximize our impact on education.

Seeing Beyond the Job Ad

At Turnitin, we recognize it’s unrealistic for candidates to fulfill 100% of the criteria in a job ad.  We encourage you to apply if you meet the majority of the requirements because we know that skills evolve over time. If you’re willing to learn and evolve alongside us, join our team!  

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