Liberty Data Analytics

Job Description

Role

AVP - Vendor Management

Level Description

Vendor Management

Job Summary
• Act as a primary point of contact to manage any business issues / concerns or help needed items between vendor & business teams.
• Oversee performance standards set by the business and ensure adherence to contractual obligations by the vendors.
• Owns actual transition of work basis Global Ops transition framework and the inputs provided by Business/Vendor Ops teams.
• Collaborate with legal teams, manager and stakeholders to develop contract terms, negotiate service level agreements and pricing to ensure favorable terms for Liberty.
• Ensure contractual compliance by establishing governance around each contract deliverable.
• Engage with vendor partners to create a roadmap for productivity commitments, seek business approval on implemented opportunities and track FTE reduction.
• Work with Risk and BCP teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements

Vendor Performance Management
• Oversee vendor health on operational performance and works collaboratively with vendors & business/vendor Ops to implement corrective actions, wherever necessary
• Provides vendor reports and scorecards for BPO vendor health monthly / quarterly for transparency on delivery of KPI's, SLA's, etc.
• Drive re-baselining of SLAs, AHTs, and Staffing at regular intervals to ensure adequacy
• Discuss service credits and negotiate on any penalties/chargebacks where applicable with vendor.
• Collaborate with Business/Vendor Ops to seek opinion around vendor performance and share constructive feedback with vendor to ensure improvement
• Review IT and Compliance Governance with people practices, quality framework adherence and staffing/capacity with vendors

Financial / Budgetary Responsibilities
• Responsible for oversight and spend management of the vendor budget and ensuring that service level agreements are met within financial parameters.
• Responsible for oversight and spend management of non-BPO NA Vendors
• Makes recommendations to senior leadership for plans to reduce cost by improving process efficiencies while still meeting all key performance metrics

Transition Management
• Owns actual transition of work basis Global Ops transition framework and the inputs provided by functional team
• Owns GRS transition standards and assists with frameworks, training curriculum and re
• Work with vendor for migration planning, hiring requirements and IT set up
• Coordinate with Business / Vendor Ops teams to extend support to vendor during transition and seek reasonable extensions wherever required
• Supports Vendor Operations team and Manager for LatAM & US, Canon and Non-BPO Vendors for implementing best practices and utilizing project management tools for seamless transitions.

Continuous Improvement
• Keeps track of contractual efficiency commitments and works with the vendor on a roadmap to deliver them timely.
• Bring together digital capabilities from vendor partners and coordinate with Business to allow vendor to present the Business case.
• Collaborate with vendor partners to share knowledge & gather valuable insights on industry trends.

Relationship Management
• Establishes and maintains productive working relationships with stakeholders both internal & external (vendors).
• Responsible for developing and implementing strategic standards and procedures to ensure relationship effectiveness

Strategy
• Works with the manager to develop a proposal and recommendations on the Canon BPO vendor partnership and day to day operations
• Works with manager to develop a go-forward operating model on the EBPS supported GRS processes ( Intake & Routing, CSO, Scanning and Indexing)

Skills Required
• - Experience with Power BI and/or Smartsheet preferred
• -Strong analytical and decision making abilities.
• - Builds strong working relationships across organizations and cultures at all levels with ability to lead work across multiple stakeholders under competing deadlines and shifting priorities.
• - Advanced written/presentation/organizational skills, demonstrates ability to lead and get work done through others.
• - Demonstrates ability to take initiative and ownership with a focus on continuous improvement.
• - Previous experience working with third party vendors required, US mailroom operations preferred.

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