Manager, Vendor Contract

Job description

As a Strategic Partnership Manager, you will play a critical role in leading initiatives, driving high value vendor relationships, optimizing third party performance, and enabling strong business outcomes through strategic sourcing, contracting, partnership management and governance. You will collaborate across multiple business areas to ensure competitive agreements are secured, manage risks effectively, and deliver exceptional service to our internal stakeholders, and customers and vendors. Key Accountabilities: Vendor Contracting Provide leadership and subject matter expertise across procurement and business projects and outsourcing initiatives, including the development, end-to end negotiation, contract drafting, risk concurrence and management of high value contracts. Lead collaborative contracting activities with key stakeholders—including Business Units, Procurement, Vendor Information Security, Legal, Risk, and Vendor Governance—covering RFIs, RFPs, MSAs, SOWs, amendments, change requests, work orders and NDAs. Ensure best in class service delivery and competitive commercial agreements by engaging appropriate stakeholder groups and adhering to required project, operational,...