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Enterprise Critical Vendor Manager
Tempe, AZ
Job Description
Title: Enterprise Critical Vendor Manager
Duration: 6 month contract to hire
Location: Tempe, AZ (must be on site 3+ days per week at 2190 E Elliot Road)
Role's Main Objective: This role will be the Enterprise Critical Vendor Manager for our Microsoft Supplier.
Major Duties
SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
Duration: 6 month contract to hire
Location: Tempe, AZ (must be on site 3+ days per week at 2190 E Elliot Road)
Role's Main Objective: This role will be the Enterprise Critical Vendor Manager for our Microsoft Supplier.
Major Duties
- Supports transformation of Third Party Management (TPRM) program by partnering with Business, Procurement, Risk, 1st line Controls function and external consultants, including cross communication and change management efforts.
- Provides ongoing monitoring and oversight of assigned critical or high priority vendors to ensure that the terms of the contracts are achieved. Includes reporting on adherence to KPIs, SLAs and financial targets.
- Leads periodic QA/QC of TPRM deliverables submitted by vendor managers to ensure quality deliverables and compliance against policies.
- Drives and supports proactive issue identification, mitigation, reporting and remediation by engaging internal stakeholders and vendors.
- Shepherds discussions and coaches assigned vendor managers within the broader business on TPRM program requirements to ensure compliance with regulatory and business requirements.
- Develops and cultivates strong relationships with assigned vendors and internal stakeholders.
- Drives and supports implementation of automated controls and reporting to mitigate third party risk.
- Performs ad-hoc business and operational data analytics to support management decision making, identify insights and make recommendations on a broad range of business initiatives.
- Performs market data spend review by conducting market research, consulting stakeholders and developing a structured approach to identifying and realizing savings opportunities in alignment with priorities.
- Supports full lifecycle of market data enablement which is critical to the business - drives entire lifecycle from understanding business needs for market data, identifying alternative vendors, engaging with Procurement, vendors and business to achieve commercially favorable terms, prepare business cases, steering its enablement and supporting governance and reporting.
- Strong consultative skills ranging from structured problem solving, identifying and gathering relevant data, solution and business case development, influencing and communicating the story.
- Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, with demonstrated ability to develop presentation materials and effectively present to and persuade executive audiences.
- Intellectually curious with the ability to roll up the sleeves to drive change and business outcomes.
- Strong project management skills with experience leading projects in a highly matrixed agile organization.
- Advanced analytical and financial modeling skills using Excel, with ability to organize, structure and process moderate to large sets of data efficiently and effectively into meaningful and actionable insights.
- Data Visualization skills using Tableau, Power BI or equivalent tools is highly desirable.
- Highly flexible, adaptable to change and comfortable in a dynamic and fast paced work environment.
- Excellent prioritization skills and comfort dealing with ambiguity.
- Global outlook with sensitivity and awareness of social and cultural differences.
- Mainframe to cloud migrations and client-facing digital properties
- VDI to cloud
- Experience with MS O365; Github, Azure VPN, Azure Dev Ops
- SharePoint infrastructure and design
- Cloud based solutions
- Operational Risk Management
- IT Risk Management
- Understanding of SDLC
- An undergraduate or graduate degree in Finance or Risk and/or other appropriate academic major.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience working with vendors/clients in other large financial institutions in a Risk/ Vendor Management/Market Data Vendor oversight practice. Experience working with Market Data Vendors in an Asset Management or Asset Servicing organization is highly desired.
- 2-3 years of experience as a Consultant/ Senior Consultant with a public accounting firm, or particular business/industry experience to meet special needs of vendor manager/ 3rd party oversight.
- Experience leading small cross-functional teams or projects with moderate risk and/or complexity
SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
Job Summary
Company
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
Bachelor's Degree
Required Experience
2 to 3 years
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