Manager, Vendor Management

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 softwa...