Manager Vendor Solutions (Minneapolis)

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Role Overview:

The Manager Vendor Solutions (Level 5) executes vendor management strategies within defined governance frameworks ensuring vendor compliance performance tracking and effective issue resolution. This individual contributor role has no direct reports and is responsible for a defined vendor portfolio within Vendor Management Team (VMT) governance routines including contract management vendor engagement and cross-functional coordination.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own contract lifecycle management for a defined vendor portfolio including renewals notice windows contract repository accuracy stakeholder follow-up and support for contract negotiations.
• Manage day-to-day vendor relationships and ensure adherence to contract terms KPIs service levels performance targets and documented commitments.
• Lead core vendor governance routines including Vendor Business Reviews (VBRs) Vendor Health Assessments (VHAs) scorecards dashboards and performance reporting.
• Monitor vendor performance identify risks and trends escalate issues as needed and drive follow-through through resolution.
• Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders and collaborate across Legal Procurement Finance Engineering & Asset Management and other partner teams to support vendor operations and business outcomes.
• Independently manage assigned vendor actions from intake through resolution including timeline management issue escalation fact-based recommendations and communication to the appropriate level of vendor and Target leadership.
• Contribute to standardized vendor governance executive-ready documentation and enterprise vendor initiatives including support for Supplier Summits top-to-top meetings Customer Advisory Boards (CABs) Executive Briefing Center (EBC) visits conferences and trade shows.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Supply Chain Management Business Administration or a related field or equivalent experience.
• 2 years of experience in vendor management procurement supply chain operations or a related field.
• Curiosity and learning agility including proactively learning assigned vendors technologies contracts stakeholders and industry trends then translating that learning into better questions risk insights and recommendations.
• Strong analytical communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience with or the ability to quickly learn vendor procurement contract and access management systems such as VNDLY Procore and Ariba.
• Ability to travel up to 15% for conferences professional development vendor site visits and vendor business reviews.

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Clickhereif you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

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