Job Title - Director – Vendor Management and Software Asset Management
Job Location - Bangalore

Purpose of the Role:
This is a key leadership role, Leading and Developing the Vendor Management Office (VMO) and Software Asset Management Office (S.A.M) to support €1.2B of third party spend in Unilever Operations (UniOps) spanning Foundation and Product lines covering Portfolios such as HR, Finance, IT, Customer, Facilities, and Business Process Outsourcing. Critical collaboration with Procurement to understand and support delivery of End-to-End Cooperative Procurement Model (CPM), Portfolio, Strategic Sourcing and Supplier Relationship Management. ​​

The VMO & SAM lead will bring a strategic and proactive approach to vendor management with a key focus on managing UniOps existing vendor base and future suppliers in both business as usual as well as Transformation.
This position is also responsible for developing and executing comprehensive software asset management strategies to optimize software licensing, reduce costs, and ensure compliance with licensing agreements.



Lead a team of experts for Unilever that will manage assets, standardize processes, control cost, and support IT security and license audit compliance.

With the work already done in Software Asset Management, the time is now to expand the scope of VMO to cover marketing spends and to grow the spend coverage to over 5B.
VMO & SAM portfolio Lead will be responsible for post Contract & Commercial contract management activities, including publishing contract insights to support forecast, enabling strategy development through contract data analytics, supplier relationship management including performance management and identifying savings opportunities across Uniops portfolio contracts. Working collaboratively with Procurement, Foundation and Product Lines, Finance, Legal, Supplier Operations to ensure E2E connectivity for all Vendor relations.

Your main responsibilities will be:
- Lead and develop the

📌 Director – Vendor Management and Software Asset Management (Bengaluru)
🏢 Unilever
📍 Bengaluru