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Vendor Manager - Post-Sales
- Posted 18 August 2022
- Salary £270 - £320 per day
- LocationReading
- Job type Contract
- Discipline Operations
- Reference68586_1660833959
- Contact NameMarkJames Search
Job description
Our client, a global enterprise technology company, based in Reading, is currently hiring for a Vendor Manager - Post-Sales to provide oversight, ongoing management, guidance and direction across the Third Party Vendor portfolio for assigned accounts.
Responsibilities:
- Review, understand and ensure compliance of vendor contractual commitments to maintain continuous alignment with customer contracted commitments.
- Maintain vendor contract line of sight across portfolio to remove risk of expiry.
- Explore opportunities throughout contract lifecycle to garner ongoing cost savings.
- Implement corrective action plans to guide vendors exhibiting performance deficiencies.
- Build inventory of customer assets (hardware and software) to monitor renewals thereby maintaining consistent, uninterrupted execution of support.
- Expand spend visibility across customer base for use as a benchmarking/negotiation tool with vendors.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or four or more years of work experience.
- Experience in data mining/analysis of operational and financial data in Excel.
- Understanding of general contracting language.
- Proven experience managing Third Party Vendors.
- Experience with products and services provided in the Telecom/Networking industry.
This is a full time, contract position for an initial period of 18 months with the option to extend and/or become permanent (although this is not guaranteed).
Please apply online for consideration.