Senior Associate, Vendor Management
Salary: Open + Bonus
Location: Chicago, IL
Hybrid: 3 days onsite, 2 days remote
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- 5+ years' technology procurement
- Technology Vendor Management experience
- Experience negotiating and understanding software, hardware and technology professional services and contingent labor vendors
- Ability to extract vendor deliverables and obligations and provide a tracking report
- Ability to effectively communicate both written and verbal, necessary for collaborating with internal stakeholders and vendors
- Proficiency in MS Office, SharePoint, Vendor Governance tools such as Sirion, ERP tools such as Oracle Fusion, Contract Lifecycle Management tools such as Ariba or Coupa
Responsibilities
- Lead and perform VM Contract Management activities for assigned vendors/contracts. Manage and oversee contract management processes, meetings and reporting cadences are followed.
- Provide consistent, proactive VM of vendor contracts to ensure VM is executed and measured to manage cost and performance of services, improve capabilities maturity, and optimize value.
- Create effective relationships with key vendors and contract stakeholders leaders to provide for monitoring of company and vendor deliverables and obligations.
- Provide oversight and management to ensure all vendor contracts conform to company and industry compliance, risk management, and other relevant sourcing, procurement, and contracting policies.
- Ensure vendor partner service offerings continue to meet evolving business needs and priorities.
- Develop and maintain positive strategic and operational relationships with vendors and are established and maintained through consistent VM, regular interaction and communication