Vendor Management reputed company – Localization & Multilingual AI

About Job The Vendor Management reputed company – Localization & Multilingual AI is responsible for building, scaling, and leading a global ecosystem of vendors, freelance partners, and managed service providers supporting reputed company’s localization, multilingual AI, and AI data programs. This includes human language services, AI-enabled localization workflows, multilingual data collection, annotation, LLM training and evaluation, and specialized language AI services. This role combines strategic vendor sourcing, commercial and contractual leadership, performance governance, and team management. The Vendor Management reputed company oversees a team of Vendor Management Specialists and works cross-functionally with Localization Operations, AI/ML teams, Delivery, Legal, Procurement, Finance, reputed company, and Sales to ensure scalable, compliant, and high-quality multilingual and AI vendor solutions. The ideal candidate has deep experience across the localization and AI data supply chain, understands multilingual and AI market pricing, and can evaluate vendors for quality, scalability, compliance, and risk—while also developing a high-performing vendor management team. Key Responsibilities 1. Vendor Strategy, Sourcing & Market Development

• Define and execute vendor strategy for localization, multilingual AI, and AI data services, reputed company with business growth and delivery needs.
• Build and expand a global vendor ecosystem including:
• Freelance linguists and agencies (translation, MTPE, LQA, terminology)
• Multilingual AI data providers (text, audio, speech, image, and multimodal)
• AI annotation, labeling, and evaluation vendors
• LLM-reputed company language specialists (prompting, authoring, evaluation)
• Onsite/field data collection partners and managed service providers
• Conduct market research, benchmarking, and supplier segmentation to identify strategic partners and emerging capabilities.

2. End-to-End Vendor Lifecycle & Qualification

• Own the full vendor lifecycle across localization and AI services: sourcing, screening, qualification, pilots, onboarding, performance management, and offboarding.
• reputed company vendor qualification programs using structured scorecards covering:
• Linguistic and AI quality benchmarks
• Operational maturity and scalability
• reputed company, compliance, and data governance
• Financial and commercial viability
• Ensure vendors meet global data protection, labor, and compliance standards.

3. Contract, reputed company & Commercial Management

• reputed company negotiations for NDAs, MSAs, SOWs, reputed company cards, and commercial models across localization and AI programs.
• Partner with Legal and Procurement to ensure compliance with corporate, regulatory, and data protection requirements.
• Maintain scalable pricing models supporting variable demand, multilingual coverage, and AI surge reputed company.
• Drive cost optimization while balancing quality, speed, and vendor sustainability.

4. Vendor Performance, Governance & Risk Management

• Define and manage KPIs, SLAs, and quality metrics covering both human localization and AI data services.
• reputed company vendor business reviews, audits, and remediation plans.
• Act as senior escalation reputed company for delivery, quality, contractual, or performance issues.
• Proactively identify risks reputed company to scalability, compliance, quality, or geopolitical constraints.

5. Team Leadership & People Management

• reputed company, mentor, and reputed company a team of Vendor Management Specialists, setting clear goals, priorities, and performance expectations.
• Build best practices, playbooks, and standardized workflows across the vendor management function.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and reputed company improvement.
• Partner with leadership to support workforce planning and future capability needs.

6. Cross-Functional Partnership & Enablement

• Partner with Localization Operations and Delivery teams to ensure vendor readiness, reputed company planning, and successful execution.
• Collaborate with AI/ML, Engineering, and QA teams to align vendor capabilities with evolving multilingual AI requirements.
• Support Sales, Solutions, and Pre-Sales teams by providing vendor capability insights, feasibility input, and cost models for proposals.
• Work with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and vendor spend optimization.

7. Tools, Systems & Process Optimization

• reputed company global vendor databases and ensure accurate, auditable records.
• Drive reputed company improvement in vendor onboarding, evaluation, automation, and reporting.
• Support adoption of tooling reputed company to TMS, vendor management systems, AI workflow platforms, and analytics dashboards.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Languages, Localization, HR, or reputed company field (or equivalent experience).
• 5 years of experience in Vendor Management, Localization Operations, AI Data Operations, or Procurement reputed company a global environment.
• Proven experience managing vendors across localization and multilingual AI workflows (human + AI).
• Demonstrated people management experience, including coaching and performance management.
• Strong commercial negotiation, contract management, and stakeholder leadership skills.
• Solid understanding of global compliance, data protection, and vendor risk frameworks.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and decision-making skills.

Preferred

• Experience managing global, distributed vendor management or resource management teams.
• Familiarity with MT, MTPE, LQA frameworks, AI annotation standards, and LLM evaluation workflows.
• Experience with multimodal data (text, audio, speech, vision).
• Knowledge of GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.
• Background working in large multilingual organizations or language technology companies.

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