# Vendor Clause Assessment Team (VCAT) Lead

**Company**: Deutsche Bank
**Location**: Bucharest, 6A Dimitrie Pompeiu Blvd
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

DB Global Technology is Deutsche Bank’s technology centre in Central and Eastern Europe. Since its set-up in 2013, Bucharest Technology Centre (BEX) has constantly proven its capacity to deliver global technology products and services, playing a dynamic role in the Bank’s technology transformation.

The Vendor Clause Assessment Team (VCAT) Lead is responsible for leading a team of VCAT Reviewers within the Third Party Contracting (TPC) Centre of Excellence. The role provides subject matter expertise on contractual risk and supplier clause deviations, ensuring consistent application of approved playbooks, legal guidance and risk requirements.

**Responsibilities**

- Lead, coach and coordinate a team of VCAT Reviewers, ensuring effective workload management, quality and timely delivery.

- Act as the primary SME for contractual risk, legal clause deviations and playbook interpretation.

- Review complex or escalated contractual provisions and determine appropriate resolution or escalation.

- Ensure consistent application of approved contractual standards, negotiation mandates and governance requirements.

- Support control execution, documentation, audit requests and remediation activities to maintain audit readiness.

- Monitor operational performance, clause deviation trends and key risk indicators, producing management reporting and insights.

- Drive continuous improvement of VCAT processes, procedures, playbooks and operating standards.

- Partner with Procurement, Legal, Risk Type Controllers and other stakeholders to support effective contract negotiations and risk management.

- Maintain accurate records, reporting and evidence using approved systems and tools.

- Support onboarding, training and knowledge sharing across the VCAT team.

**Skills**

- Experience in contract review, contracting, legal operations, supplier governance or risk management.

- Strong analytical, problem-solving and stakeholder management skills.

- Experience leading or coordinating teams.

- Understanding of controls, governance, compliance and audit requirements.

- Strong reporting and data analysis capabilities.

- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

**Well-being & Benefits**

- Emotionally and mentally balanced: We support you in dealing with life crises, maintaining stability through illness, and maintaining good mental health.

- Physically thriving: We support you in managing your physical health by taking appropriate preventive measures and providing a workplace that helps you thrive.

- Socially connected: We strongly believe in collaboration, inclusion and feeling connected to open up new perspectives and strengthen our self-confidence and well-being.

- Financially secure: We support you in meeting personal financial goals during your active career and for the future.

## Skills

### Required
- contract review
- legal operations
- supplier governance
- risk management
- analytical skills
- problem-solving skills
- stakeholder management
- team leadership
- controls
- governance
- compliance
- audit requirements
- reporting
- data analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- written communication
- verbal communication

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