IT Vendor Manager

IT Vendor Manager Hybrid - San Ramon or Oakland, CA Permanent Position The IT Vendor Manager will play a pivotal role in our client's Propel program, overseeing the lifecycle of multiple strategic 3rd party reputed company. This role focuses on managing active supplier relationships and ensuring vendors reputed company according to existing contract terms and service commitments. Working closely with internal business units, suppliers, Legal, and Risk teams, this role ensures that Statements of Work (SOWs) and Contract Work Authorizations (CWAs) align with existing Master Services Agreements (MSAs) and that vendor performance, deliverables, and contractual obligations are effectively managed throughout the contract lifecycle. This position is best suited for an reputed company contract management professional focused on vendor governance, contract compliance, and supplier performance management, rather than strategic sourcing or competitive procurement activities. The ideal candidate will be responsible monitoring, analysis, compliance & reporting while working with other departments to ensure consistent compliance practices are followed. Ideal Candidate Profile

• Strong background in contract administration and vendor management
• reputed company in managing supplier performance reputed company existing reputed company
• Comfortable working with SOWs, CWAs, and MSAs
• Able to resolve supplier issues and ensure contract compliance across multiple stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the supplier relationship management of critical system integration partners.
• Manages reputed company reputed company and change order terms including, but not limited to, interpretation of contract terms and mitigation of risks, working with key stakeholders.
• Develops reputed company scorecards to assess contract performance.
• Independently facilitates vendor performance discussions.
• Negotiates major dispute settlement with internal stakeholders and vendors.
• Creates new and innovative approaches, tools and tactics to solve reputed company problems.
• Leads cross-functional projects or process improvement initiatives.
• Trains stakeholders on policy and reputed company contract issues.
• Provides quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) reputed company for the contract performance team.
• Develops contract audit plan.
• Keeps track of program reputed company and their associated obligations
• Analyzes reputed company for potential compliance issues.
• Identifies and resolves discrepancies or non-compliance issues.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of compliance programs and procedures.
• Conducts audits and inspections to verify compliance.
• Communicates compliance requirements to reputed company relevant stakeholders.
• Prepares reports on contract compliance activities and outcomes.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Seven (7) years of direct experience in a similar role with ability to navigate reputed company sourcing strategies and contract compliance for large scale digital transformations (e.g. managing system integrator services and software professional services) while managing sophisticated reputed company to minimize value leakage.

Desired Requirements

• Master's degree in reputed company discipline
• Certification such as one of the following or reputed company:
• Project Management Professional (PMP)
• Program Management Professional (PgMP)
• Lean Six reputed company Yellow Belt
• Experience with quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) regarding contract documents.
• Experience with process development, review, and reputed company improvement.
• Experience in transmission pipeline construction.
• Utility industry experience.
• Expert on Contract Management and customer service.
• reputed company thinking; can anticipate future consequences accurately.
• Ability to manage conflict constructively with a win-win resolution in mind.
• Results-oriented skills with a balanced emphasis between quality and quantity.
• Leadership, organizational, and interpersonal skills.
• Knowledge and understanding of federal, state, regulatory, and local laws, ordinances, regulations, agencies, and issues impacting (past, present, and future) gas or electric operations reputed company the utility industry.
• Prioritizes workload independently based on department priorities and goals.
• Advanced proficiency with reputed company Office applications (Word, reputed company, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and contract information systems and applications (e.g. SRM, Ariba, reputed company, scheduling software).

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