Manager, Vendor Management
Manager, Vendor Management
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Job Description
Overview
Job Summary:
The Manager is responsible for planning leading organizing and motivating the Vendor Management team within the Procurement department to achieve a high level of performance and quality in delivering exceptional business value to users. This role is responsible for driving the vendor management process creating standards for vendors cultivating relationships with vendors analyzing vendor performance and reporting to enable effective decision making to drive business value.
Required in-office presence at least 4 days per week
Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Regularly assess and mitigate the operational and compliance risks of strategic partners to detect early warning signals of potential problems.
- Measure and provide reporting related to performance of partners against agreed metrics and overall satisfaction.
- Drive strategic vendors to add value and efficiencies to solve business challenges in order to reduce time and spend for Allegis Group Inc.
- Drive costs out of the vendor management process to improve budgetary position for Allegis.
- Facilitate the resolution of escalated vendor relation concerns.
- Drive adoption and adherence to vendor management policies by collecting and reporting data on benefits such as risks mitigated costs saved performance improved and relationships enhanced.
- Evaluate vendor spending to determine if consolidations can be accomplished.
- Enforce policies for employee / vendor interactions that describe the governance for interacting with new and existing vendors.
- Drive ongoing process improvement to deliver increasing operational excellence in all vendor related processes.
- Coordinate and facilitate the review of business roadmaps and priorities of Allegis Group Inc. through the Strategic Business Review process.
- Partner with key groups (Procurement Strategic Sourcing Finance IS Delivery Teams etc.) to include:
- RFP and business case development
- Vendor negotiation process of service level agreements
- Ensuring contractual obligations are met
- Seeking new vendors as necessary
- Driving contract changes where needed
- Fostering relationships with vendors and internal stakeholders (IS leadership Finance and Procurement) to optimize communications.
- Collaborating and supporting IS Finance with activities that include invoice validation billing dispute resolution cost analysis and benchmarking.
- Continually working with partners to identify and implement improvements
- Serve as a liaison between procurement and business partners
- Generate and publish reports to business leaders working closely with Finance to determine gaps and areas of cost savings.
- Development of best practices processes and procedures for software asset management (SAM)
- Measure and report SAM function KPIs and software cost allocations.
- Plan and drive execution of SAM governance activities and training.
- Lead software audit activities by partnering with IS and Risk & Compliance teams.
- Management responsibility for the Vendor Management team including hiring leadership development and accountability for performance.
- Acts as Coach-Leader coaching others in their development as a leader and/or a more complex problem solver and focuses on helping others formulate their development plan
- Assists in team development while holding teams accountable for their commitments removing roadblocks to their work; leveraging organizational resources to improve capacity; and mentoring team members
- Promotes empowerment of the team ensures that each team member is fully engaged and making a meaningful contribution and encourages a sustainable pace while focused on high-quality work
- Establishes operational/team objectives and goals.
- Contributes to the development of product/service and/or departmental budgets and actively manages budget to plan
- Shares fiscal responsibility for the organizations technology investments and future planning of the organizations spend to avoid unnecessary and/or duplicative services and to maximize ROI
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Business Information Systems or equivalent
- Minimum of 5-7 years of Vendor Management Supplier Relationship Management or Information Technology experience
- Minimum of 5 plus years of account management or relationship management.
- Solid understanding of and demonstrated experience in using appropriate tools:
- SharePoint Administration MS Teams VersionOne MS Office
- Experience designing and implementing software asset management processes
- Agile (Scrum KanBan) experience a plus
- Strong interpersonal skills including mentoring coaching collaborating and team building
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent oral and written communications skills
- Solid leadership skills including the ability to plan organize and steer activities with competing demands
- Able to identify and understand complex problems/issues and develop solutions
- Ability to travel without restrictions (domestic and international).
- Build relationships
- Develop people
- Lead change
- Inspire Others
- Think critically
- Communicate clearly
- Create Accountability
Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections plan or program terms. This role is eligible for the following:
- Medical dental & vision
- Hospital plans
- 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Company paid Basic Life and AD&D as well as voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Company paid Short and long-term disability
- Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts (HSA & DCFSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Tuition Assistance
- Time Off/Leave (PTO Allegis Group Paid Family Leave Parental Leave)
Salary Range:
- $103000.00 - $154600.00
- This position is bonus eligible
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race sex age color religion national origin veteran status disability sexual orientation gender identity genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability please email Lauren Lara ator call for other accommodation options.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
