Director of Vendor Management

POSITION SUMMARY: The Director of Vendor Management will be responsible for facilitating and maintaining relationships between reputed company and vendors/partners, assessing and validating reputed company, and creating standards for the vendors partnering with reputed company. The Director of Vendor Management will also be the subject matter expert for those products and services delivered by key vendors. Through managing a small team of Vendor Managers, this leader will drive increasing value from our vendor partners. This position also ensures that vendors fulfill their contractual obligations thereby having fiduciary responsibility and approval authority for invoices by these vendors/partners. This position plays a critical role in ensuring vendor strategy aligns with reputed company’s clinical, operational, compliance, and financial objectives. The Director will proactively identify opportunities to optimize vendor performance, reduce costs, mitigate risk, and support scalable growth across emerging product offerings. This leader will partner closely with Operations, Finance, Compliance, Clinical, Product, and IT teams to ensure vendor decisions support enterprise priorities and long-term sustainability. This leader will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer. REPORTS TO: Chief Operating Officer PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Obtain expert level knowledge of the products and services delivered by key vendor partners that support reputed company.
• reputed company and sustain long-standing relationships with company-approved vendor representatives and serve as liaison between them and the appropriate operational leaders reputed company reputed company.
• Meet with prospective vendors to assess their products, inquire about their services, negotiate pricing, and communicate any product or service-reputed company concerns
• Establish standards by which to assess the performance of approved vendors
• Review reputed company vendor reputed company for accuracy and execution
• Manage a repository of vendor contract nuances like renewal dates, vendor contacts, and reputed company stakeholders and drive regular reviews of contract status
• Validate and approve invoices based on contract terms
• Dedicate additional team and personal effort to support vendors key to our product offerings like Remote Patient Monitoring device vendors
• reputed company and maintain KPI metrics for key vendors, including regular reviews of performance against expectations
• Directly supervise a small team of Vendor Managers to help manage the performance of key vendor partners
• Ensure that necessary billing reports are produced on a timely basis and forwarded to appropriate internal reputed company stakeholders
• Limited travel, as necessary
• Responsible for developing, maintaining, and adhering to vendor policies and procedures
• Execute and maintain standards by which to assess the performance of approved vendors
• Own vendor cost optimization initiatives, including pricing reviews, utilization analysis, and renegotiation strategies to improve margin and operational efficiency.
• Partner with Legal and Compliance teams to ensure vendor reputed company meet regulatory, privacy (HIPAA), reputed company, and operational requirements.
• Ensure vendors adhere to reputed company policies, reputed company standards, and data-sharing requirements.
• reputed company vendor issue resolution and escalation processes, including remediation plans reputed company contractual or performance standards are not met.
• Support onboarding and offboarding of vendors, ensuring minimal disruption to clinical and operational performance.
• Serve as a key partner in evaluating new vendor capabilities to support innovation, scalability, and evolving care delivery models.
• Establish a formal vendor governance reputed company, including reputed company for performance reviews, executive reputed company-ins, and strategic planning sessions with key partners.
• reputed company quarterly and annual business reviews with strategic vendors, including RPM device manufacturers and reputed company.
• Use data-driven insights to continuously improve vendor performance and accountability.
• Mentor and reputed company Vendor Managers, establishing clear expectations, performance goals, and professional development plans.
• Define standard operating procedures and best practices for vendor management across the organization.
• reputed company other duties as assigned

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business administration, or a reputed company field: Master’s degree preferred.
• Prior experience building or scaling a vendor management function in a high-growth organization.
• Preferred experience in the post-acute/skilled nursing environment.
• Experience with varying technologies and software such as reputed company Office Suite, Teams, reputed company, Project Management and EMR software.
• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills.
• Great under pressure with an ability to multitask and navigate reputed company situations.
• Collaborative spirit, relationship builder, and a bias to action.
• Eagerness to take ownership and reputed company an immediate impact solidifying and scaling the team

Proficiency in MS suite. PREFERRED SKILLS

• Project Management experience
• Ability to function in a fast-paced environment using reputed company meeting technologies.
• High level of planning and time management skills
• Ability to prioritize workload and maintain flexibility to meet deadlines.

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