Conseiller(ère) principal(e) en exécution contractuelle TI et partenariats
- Montreal, QC, Canada
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We began life in 2001 as a small, self-funded team of technology specialists. Since then, we’ve grown our organization to 17,000 people, across 58 offices, in 22 countries, in key global markets.
Innovative tech solutions for business
We're now a leading global digital consulting firm, providing innovative technology solutions for business. As a trusted partner, we're always at the forefront of change as we lead digital optimization and modernization journeys for our clients.
Customized end-to-end solutions
Our expertise in AI, Consulting, Data, Digital, Cloud & DevOps and Software Engineering, delivers customized, end-to-end solutions that drive business value and growth.
The Role:
Senior IT Contract Execution & Partnership Advisor
We are seeking a seasoned professional to support strategic technology partnerships and contractual delivery execution across a portfolio of complex initiatives.
As a Contract Execution Advisor, you will act as the strategic bridge between contractual commitments, business objectives, external partners, and delivery activities. You will bring clarity to complex environments, align stakeholders, and ensure contractual obligations support successful delivery outcomes.
Beyond traditional contract management, you will leverage contractual frameworks as tools for performance management, risk mitigation, governance, and value creation.
The Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of deliveries and maintain the overall health of supplier and partner relationships.
- Ensure contractual performance and support achievement of business outcomes.
- Represent organizational interests while fostering constructive and sustainable relationships with external partners.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of contracts, commercial mechanisms, obligations, and intended business outcomes.
- Monitor delivery performance and ensure alignment between execution activities, contractual commitments, and business objectives.
- Assess the overall health of delivery initiatives, including plans, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, assumptions, and risks.
- Identify gaps, risks, ambiguities, and issues that may jeopardize delivery success.
- Utilize contractual levers, governance mechanisms, and escalation processes when required.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment and mobilize subject matter expertise to remove delivery roadblocks.
- Support informed decision-making through structured analysis and risk assessment.
- Ensure clear accountability, governance, and decision-making frameworks.
- Drive continuous improvement of partnership models, governance practices, and contractual mechanisms.
- Support dispute preparation and negotiation strategies by establishing aligned internal positions.
- Protect organizational interests while contributing to long-term value creation.
Requirements:
- Significant experience in contract management, vendor governance, partnership management, or contract execution within an IT environment.
- Strong understanding of large-scale technology project governance and delivery practices.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply complex contractual agreements.
- Strong knowledge of delivery, operational, commercial, and partnership-related risks.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills without direct authority.
- Ability to balance contractual rigor, operational realities, business objectives, and relationship management.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to structure complex issues and translate them into actionable decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Sound judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Results-oriented mindset with the ability to advance initiatives in multi-party environments.
- Ability to challenge delivery partners while maintaining trusted business relationships.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between technology delivery, governance, contractual commitments, and business outcomes.
We offer:
- A multinational organization with 58 offices in 22 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
- 15 days (3 weeks) of paid annual leave plus an additional 10 days of personal leave (floating days and sick days).
- A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability.
- Flexible hybrid policy.
- RRSP with employer’s contribution up to 4%.
- A higher education certification policy.
- On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
- Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
- Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
- A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture.
S YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Nous sommes :
Nous avons commencé notre aventure en 2001 en tant que petite équipe de spécialistes en technologie, autofinancée. Depuis, notre organisation s’est développée pour compter 17 000 collaborateurs répartis dans 58 bureaux, au sein de 22 pays, sur les principaux marchés mondiaux.
Des solutions technologiques innovantes au service des entreprises
Aujourd’hui, nous sommes un cabinet mondial de conseil numérique de premier plan, offrant des solutions technologiques innovantes aux entreprises. En tant que partenaire de confiance, nous sommes constamment à l’avant-garde du changement, en accompagnant nos clients dans leurs initiatives d’optimisation et de modernisation numériques.
Des solutions personnalisées de bout en bout
Notre expertise en intelligence artificielle (IA), conseil, données, numérique, infonuagique (Cloud) et DevOps, ainsi qu’en ingénierie logicielle, nous permet de fournir des solutions personnalisées de bout en bout qui favorisent la création de valeur et la croissance des entreprises.
Le rôle :
Conseiller(ère) principal(e) en exécution contractuelle TI et partenariats
Au sein d’une équipe responsable des partenariats stratégiques et de l’exécution contractuelle, vous jouerez un rôle clé dans l’atteinte des objectifs d’affaires en assurant la performance d’ententes complexes de services TI.
À titre de référent contractuel, vous agirez comme point de convergence entre les engagements contractuels, les objectifs d’affaires, les partenaires externes et les activités de livraison. Vous serez responsable de créer de la clarté dans des environnements complexes, de mobiliser les parties prenantes et d’assurer l’alignement entre les capacités de livraison, les engagements contractuels et les résultats attendus.
Plus qu’un gestionnaire de contrat, vous utiliserez les mécanismes contractuels comme leviers de performance, de gestion des risques et de création de valeur afin d’assurer le succès durable des partenariats.
Les responsabilités :
- Gérer un portefeuille de livraisons et assurer la santé globale des partenariats et des relations avec les fournisseurs.
- Assurer la performance des ententes et contribuer à l’atteinte des résultats d’affaires recherchés.
- Représenter les intérêts de l’organisation auprès des partenaires tout en maintenant des relations constructives et durables.
- Développer et maintenir une compréhension approfondie des contrats, de leurs obligations, mécanismes, risques et intentions d’affaires.
- Assurer l’alignement entre les engagements contractuels, les objectifs d’affaires, les capacités de livraison et les résultats attendus.
- Exercer une vigie constante sur la livraison afin d’identifier rapidement les écarts, risques, ambiguïtés ou enjeux susceptibles d’affecter la performance des ententes.
- Évaluer la santé globale des livraisons en comprenant les plans, jalons, dépendances, chemins critiques et hypothèses sous-jacentes.
- Utiliser les leviers contractuels, mécanismes de gouvernance et processus d’escalade lorsque requis.
- Mobiliser les expertises nécessaires et faciliter les arbitrages afin d’éliminer les obstacles à l’exécution.
- Soutenir la prise de décision en fournissant une analyse claire des enjeux, des risques et des impacts potentiels.
- Veiller à la clarté des rôles, responsabilités et mécanismes de gouvernance.
- Contribuer à l’amélioration continue des pratiques contractuelles, des modèles de gouvernance et des approches de partenariat.
- Participer à la préparation des stratégies de négociation et à la gestion des différends en assurant l’alignement interne des positions organisationnelles.
- Contribuer à la protection des intérêts de l’organisation tout en favorisant la création de valeur à long terme.
Les qualifications requises:
- Expérience significative dans la gestion de contrats, la gouvernance de fournisseurs ou l’exécution contractuelle dans un contexte TI.
- Bonne compréhension des pratiques de gestion et de gouvernance de projets technologiques d’envergure.
- Capacité à interpréter et appliquer des ententes contractuelles complexes.
- Excellente compréhension des risques liés à la livraison, aux fournisseurs et aux partenariats stratégiques.
- Expérience dans des environnements complexes impliquant de multiples parties prenantes.
- Solides compétences en influence, négociation et mobilisation sans autorité hiérarchique.
- Capacité démontrée à concilier les dimensions contractuelles, opérationnelles, relationnelles et d’affaires.
- Fort esprit d’analyse et capacité à structurer des enjeux complexes en recommandations concrètes.
- Excellentes habiletés de communication et de présentation auprès des parties prenantes de différents niveaux.
- Capacité à faire preuve de jugement, de recul et de discernement dans des situations ambiguës.
- Orientation résultats et capacité à faire progresser les dossiers dans un contexte multipartite.
- Aptitude à établir des relations de confiance tout en abordant les enjeux avec rigueur et franchise.
- Connaissance du cycle de livraison TI et capacité à faire le lien entre projets, gouvernance, technologie et obligations contractuelles.
Les bénéfices :
- Une organisation multinationale avec 60 bureaux dans 20 pays et la possibilité de travailler à l'étranger
- 15 jours (3 semaines) de congés annuels payés plus 10 jours de congés personnels et jours de maladie supplémentaires
- Un régime d'assurance complet comprenant : assurance médicale, dentaire, visuelle, assurance vie et invalidité de longue durée
- Une politique hybride flexible
- REER avec contribution de l'employeur jusqu'à 4%
DÉCLARATION DE DIVERSITÉ ET D'INCLUSION DE SYNECHRON :
La diversité et l'inclusion sont fondamentales pour notre culture, et Synechron est fier d'être un lieu de travail égalitaire et un employeur pratiquant l'action positive. Notre initiative de diversité, d'équité et d'inclusion (DEI) «‘Synclusive’» s'engage à favoriser une culture inclusive - promouvoir l'égalité, la diversité et un environnement respectueux envers tous. Nous croyons fermement qu'une main-d'œuvre diversifiée contribue à renforcer les entreprises avec succès en tant qu'entreprise mondiale. Nous encourageons les candidats de divers horizons, qu'il s'agisse de race, d'origine ethnique, de religion, d'âge, de statut matrimonial, de genre, d'orientation sexuelle ou de handicap, à postuler. Nous autonomisons notre main-d'œuvre mondiale en proposant des arrangements de travail flexibles, du mentorat, une mobilité interne, des programmes d'apprentissage et de développement, et bien plus encore.
Toutes les décisions d'emploi chez Synechron sont basées sur les besoins de l'entreprise, les exigences du poste et les qualifications individuelles, sans tenir compte du genre, de l'identité de genre, de l'orientation sexuelle, de la race, de l'origine ethnique, du handicap ou du statut de vétéran du candidat, ou de toute autre caractéristique protégée par la loi.
English Version
About Synechron
We began life in 2001 as a small, self-funded team of technology specialists. Since then, we’ve grown our organization to 17,000 people, across 58 offices, in 22 countries, in key global markets.
Innovative tech solutions for business
We're now a leading global digital consulting firm, providing innovative technology solutions for business. As a trusted partner, we're always at the forefront of change as we lead digital optimization and modernization journeys for our clients.
Customized end-to-end solutions
Our expertise in AI, Consulting, Data, Digital, Cloud & DevOps and Software Engineering, delivers customized, end-to-end solutions that drive business value and growth.
The Role:
Senior IT Contract Execution & Partnership Advisor
We are seeking a seasoned professional to support strategic technology partnerships and contractual delivery execution across a portfolio of complex initiatives.
As a Contract Execution Advisor, you will act as the strategic bridge between contractual commitments, business objectives, external partners, and delivery activities. You will bring clarity to complex environments, align stakeholders, and ensure contractual obligations support successful delivery outcomes.
Beyond traditional contract management, you will leverage contractual frameworks as tools for performance management, risk mitigation, governance, and value creation.
The Responsibilities:
- Manage a portfolio of deliveries and maintain the overall health of supplier and partner relationships.
- Ensure contractual performance and support achievement of business outcomes.
- Represent organizational interests while fostering constructive and sustainable relationships with external partners.
- Maintain a thorough understanding of contracts, commercial mechanisms, obligations, and intended business outcomes.
- Monitor delivery performance and ensure alignment between execution activities, contractual commitments, and business objectives.
- Assess the overall health of delivery initiatives, including plans, milestones, dependencies, critical paths, assumptions, and risks.
- Identify gaps, risks, ambiguities, and issues that may jeopardize delivery success.
- Utilize contractual levers, governance mechanisms, and escalation processes when required.
- Facilitate stakeholder alignment and mobilize subject matter expertise to remove delivery roadblocks.
- Support informed decision-making through structured analysis and risk assessment.
- Ensure clear accountability, governance, and decision-making frameworks.
- Drive continuous improvement of partnership models, governance practices, and contractual mechanisms.
- Support dispute preparation and negotiation strategies by establishing aligned internal positions.
- Protect organizational interests while contributing to long-term value creation.
Requirements:
- Significant experience in contract management, vendor governance, partnership management, or contract execution within an IT environment.
- Strong understanding of large-scale technology project governance and delivery practices.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret and apply complex contractual agreements.
- Strong knowledge of delivery, operational, commercial, and partnership-related risks.
- Experience working in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong influencing, negotiation, and stakeholder management skills without direct authority.
- Ability to balance contractual rigor, operational realities, business objectives, and relationship management.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to structure complex issues and translate them into actionable decisions.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Sound judgment and ability to navigate ambiguity.
- Results-oriented mindset with the ability to advance initiatives in multi-party environments.
- Ability to challenge delivery partners while maintaining trusted business relationships.
- Strong understanding of the relationship between technology delivery, governance, contractual commitments, and business outcomes.
We offer:
- A multinational organization with 58 offices in 22 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
- 15 days (3 weeks) of paid annual leave plus an additional 10 days of personal leave (floating days and sick days).
- A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-term disability.
- Flexible hybrid policy.
- RRSP with employer’s contribution up to 4%.
- A higher education certification policy.
- On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses.
- Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups.
- Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
- A truly diverse, fun-loving and global work culture.
S YNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
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Responsibilities
Manage a portfolio of technology deliveries and supplier partnerships, monitoring contractual performance, delivery health, risks, dependencies, and alignment with business outcomes. Use contract mechanisms, governance, escalation, negotiation, and stakeholder coordination to resolve obstacles, protect organizational interests, and improve long-term partnership value.
Requirements
Requires significant experience in IT contract management, vendor governance, partnership management, or contract execution, along with knowledge of large-scale technology delivery and project governance. Candidates should be skilled in interpreting complex agreements, assessing risks, influencing and negotiating across stakeholders, structuring complex issues into actionable recommendations, and navigating ambiguity.
Skills
- IT Contract Management
- Contract Execution
- Vendor Governance
- Contract Interpretation
- Technology Project Governance
- Delivery Risk Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Influencing
- Negotiation
- Analytical Problem-Solving
- Escalation Management
- Dispute Management
- Governance Frameworks
- Technology Delivery
- Business Alignment
Benefits
- Paid Annual Leave
- Personal Leave
- Sick Leave
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Flexible Hybrid Work Policy
- Higher Education Certification Policy
- Udemy For Business Access
- Coaching Opportunities
- Learning And Development Programs
- Internal Mobility
- Flexible Workplace Arrangements
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- Management & Leadership
- Technology
- Consulting
- Legal
Keywords
- IT Contracts
- Contract Execution
- Contract Management
- Vendor Governance
- Strategic Partnerships
- Supplier Relationships
- Technology Delivery
- Project Governance
- Contractual Obligations
- Commercial Mechanisms
- Business Outcomes
- Risk Mitigation
- Delivery Performance
- Milestones
- Dependencies
- Critical Paths
- Governance Mechanisms
- Escalation Processes
- Stakeholder Alignment
- Negotiation Strategies
- Dispute Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Value Creation
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Software Engineering
- Digital Consulting