IT Vendor Manager  

Job Overview:

Vendor managers facilitate and maintain relationships between the organization and vendors/partners, negotiating contracts, creating standards for the vendors, and finding the best available vendors. Vendor managers also cultivate and maintain relationships with vendors.

Responsibilities:

• Developing and sustaining long-standing relationships with company-approved vendors.
• Meeting with suitable vendors to assess their products, inquire about their services, negotiate pricing, and communicate any product or service-related concerns.
• Conducting research on available vendors to determine which vendors offer the best pricing and product quality.
• Continually monitoring sales trends to determine which products are more popular than others.
• Implementing vendor selection programs to ensure that the best vendors are secured.
• Conducting onboarding with vendors and informing vendors their responsibilities and obligations.
• Conducting offboarding and knowledge transfer with vendors
• Establishing standards by which to assess the performance of approved vendors.
• Evaluating current vendor management programs and identifying ways to improve them.
• Can conduct technology analysis, rationalization and positioning
• Collaborates with vendors for go to market strategy
• Ensures vendors comply with their SLAs and OLAs
• Manage rules of engagements
• Manage vendor interactions and promotional activities
• Conducts vendor risk assessment and management
• Conducts sales and technical enablement sessions

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in IT, marketing, business administration, or a related field.
• With vendor management experience in the technology industry
• Certification in ITIL V4 and PMP is an advantage
• Proven experience working as a vendor manager
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications
• Has great relationship management skills
• Must be organized
• Detail oriented
• The ability to travel for work
• The ability to multitask effectively