Sr. Strategic Procurement VMO Partner - CareerBuilder Premium Subscription

Summary
Serves as company point of contact for issues with GEHA partners within the Vendor Manager Office division for vendors with high impact to company cost and program completion. Acts as a liaison between current and future external partners and GEHA to address issues surrounding contract performance.

Duties

· Onboard new external partners, ensuring they meet quality, cost, and compliance requirements.

· Lead supplier selection process, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier relationships to ensure favorable terms and conditions.

· Monitors daily workflow and provides guidance on processes and special handling items for major expenses to the business.

· Manages the daily performance of the current and future external partnerships. Establishes work priorities for the current and future external partnerships and monitors and reviews the work of the partners.

· Monitors productivity levels of the partners to ensure company goals are met.

· Maintains current and future external partnerships performance criteria as outlined in the contract and tracks such criteria, against actual performance. Provides external partners performance summary monthly.

· Evaluates the knowledge and skill levels of the current and future external partnerships staffing to ensure performance levels are meeting and exceeding standards needed to accomplish GEHA’s business requirements.

· Prepares analysis to evaluate partner’s contract performance for use in approval of monthly invoices.

· Manages grievances and partner relation issues as needed and involves the Director when issues become larger.

· Provides proper training for the current and future external partnerships on new GEHA processes, and any additional training needed on existing processes.

· Monitors current and future external partnerships recruitment to ensure current and future external partnerships has proper staffing for supporting and maintaining GEHA’s business requirements.

· Works with manager to design metrics and processes to ensure partner relationships are consistently reviewed and managed.

· Works with executives to determine and analyze new vendor relationships to determine the best partner by managing the RFP process end to end.

· Build RFP process end to end that can be used for all contracts including how often contracts need to be renewed, can be signed for, etc.

· Other miscellaneous projects, as assigned.