Job Responsibilities:
- Oversee Outsourcing activities effectively, including onboarding, due diligence, risk assessment, and continuing vendor monitoring.
- Identify and mitigate risks, proactively addressing potential roadblocks and implementing contingency plans.
- Develop expertise across areas of outsourcing-related oversight, governance, and regulatory deliverables.
- Involve yourself in vendor contract negotiation and problem-solving to ensure favorable agreements.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors to foster collaboration and communication.
- Identify and mitigate risks associated with vendor relationships, as well as oversee and reduce costs associated with vendor services and products.
- Assist in representing the business in addressing and resolving any issues or disputes.
- Align Vendor Management strategies with organizational goals and encourage vendors to innovate and improve their offerings.
- Support with drafting regulatory papers, metrics, status updates, and other reporting.
- Represent the business at relevant Outsourcing governance forums and implement and maintain effective coordination and collaboration with stakeholders.
- Act as the owner and subject matter expert of the Outsourcing and Vendor Management frameworks and assist in maintaining an Outsourcing Register across multiple entities.
Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Demonstrated understanding and experience in compliance, controls, or operational risk.
- Ability to communicate with various stakeholder groups at different levels. As well as Capability to address and resolve issues or disputes in vendor relationships.
- Ability to analyze vendor performance data, market trends, financial information and ability to negotiate work closely with vendors.
- Experience in building and maintaining strong relationships with vendors.
- Skills in planning, organizing, and managing Outsourcing and Vendor-related projects.
- Experience in identifying and mitigating risks associated with vendor relationships.
- Understanding of financial principles and budgeting.
- Ability to align Outsourcing and Vendor management strategies with organizational goals.
- Familiarity with relevant technologies and systems used in Outsourcing and Vendor management.
- Experience in Outsourcing, Vendor Management, procurement, supply chain management, or related fields.
- Experience in change management and/or project management within an Agile environment.
Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills:
- Effective interpersonal skills and ability to work across teams and geographic locations.
- Understanding of IT environments is a plus
- Understanding of the industry in which the organization operates.
- Self-starter and ambitious to develop in a fast-moving firmwide function.
- Planning, prioritization, and time-management skills.
- Good networking skills and initiative.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.