As a Vendor Management Professional in our Finance team you will spend each day defining, refining and delivering set goals for our firm.
Job Responsibilities
- Driving contracting and vendor strategy across the client group
- Serve as the gateway between vendors, our business partners and Corporate groups (GSS)
- Ensure appropriate technical considerations addressed in contracts, SLAs and acceptance criteria captured
- Relationship ownership for full vendor spend (Includes both Labor and SW)
- Contract Negotiation in partnership with Procurement teams
- Understand and influence: pipeline, vendor requirements, resource planning and financial impact
- Enforce consistent payment discipline by processing invoices on time and ensuring we capture as much early pay discount as possible
- Identify opportunities, make recommendations and help execute changes for increased efficiencies with vendor spend, for example consolidation, working with preferred vendors who give JPM preferential rates
- Act as a portfolio manager from a Risk Management perspective on corporate Third Party Oversight tools
- Represent AWM & exercise influence on key forums keeping in mind optimization, controls and good governance principles
- Develop and maintain strategic relationships with strategic vendors for AWM
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 8+ years experience in Vendor Management or Procurement function
- Energetic and dynamic in style
- Highly motivated self-starter with excellent time management/prioritization skills
- Present well to senior and global business heads
- Able to forge strong internal relationships across a broad range of functions
- Self-motivated, tenacious and able to work with high degree of independence
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Able to both define and deliver to conclusion a strategic agenda across multiple groups
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills with ability to analyze large data sets and present conclusions concisely
- Excellent project management and organizational skills
- Attention to detail with logical thought process