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About the role
- Lead IT Vendor Management Specialist at American Family Insurance managing IT tier 1 suppliers and optimizing vendor relationships. Focused on strategic sourcing life cycle and category strategies.
Responsibilities
- accountable for the strategic sourcing life cycle for IT tier 1 suppliers.
- spend analytics, market and demand analysis, supplier evaluation and selection, negotiations, contracting, supplier risk and performance management, and supplier relationship management.
- Develop relationships with IT leaders, knowledge of business operations and vendor requirements, and influence vendor strategies.
- Develop category strategies and build a sourcing project portfolio to allow your team to achieve its goals.
- report to the Director, Sourcing & Procurement.
- leverage expertise in strategic sourcing, procurement, and vendor management to manage and optimize a portfolio of large, complex and strategically important supplier relationships.
- Develop and execute ongoing vendor management strategies to optimize vendor relationships, performance and risk.
- Serve as the primary relationship owner for Tier 1 suppliers.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service.
- Demonstrated experience in project management methodologies, practices, techniques and tools.
- Solid knowledge and understanding of processing systems and processes.
- Solid knowledge and understanding of the insurance industry and regulatory environment.
- Basic knowledge and understanding of contract negotiations.
Benefits
- comprehensive medical, dental, vision and wellbeing benefits that enable you to take care of your health.
- competitive 401(k) contribution
- pension plan
- annual incentive
- 9 paid holidays
- paid time off program (23 days accrued annually for full-time employees)
- student loan repayment program
- paid-family leave
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