Partnership & Vendor Management Lead

🚀 We’re Hiring: Partnership & Vendor Management Lead

📍 Doha, Qatar

🔍 Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end vendor governance framework (KPIs, SLAs, review cadence, escalation paths)
• Build and maintain strong relationships with strategic vendors and technology partners
• Track delivery performance across milestones, quality standards, and contractual obligations
• Lead vendor performance reviews, risk assessments, and service improvement plans
• Drive cross-vendor coordination across multiple workstreams and dependencies
• Partner with procurement and legal teams on contracts, renewals, and compliance
• Ensure adherence to governance standards including security, documentation, and handover
• Support onboarding and evaluation of new partners
• Identify opportunities for optimization, consolidation, and commercial efficiency

🧠 What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years in vendor/partner management, program governance, or commercial delivery
• Experience working with system integrators, hyperscalers, or managed service providers
• Strong understanding of contracts, SLAs, KPIs, and service delivery models
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi-vendor environments
• Excellent negotiation, stakeholder management, and communication skills
• Ability to bridge business, commercial, and technical conversations effectively

🛠️ Tools & Environment

Experience with tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Confluence, SharePoint, Power BI, and MS Project is highly beneficial.

💡 Key Strengths

• Strong commercial awareness with a focus on delivery quality
• Confident communicator with executive stakeholders
• High ownership mindset with a balance of governance and partnership building
• Structured, detail-oriented, and solution-driven