Job Title: Vendor / Partner Manager
Location: 2-3 days per week on-site in Reading to begin with, then 1-2 days on-site after handover is complete.
Salary/Rate: £359/day
Start Date: Early October 2024
Job Type: Contract
Job Overview:
Vendor / Partner Manager with experience working in the telecommunications industry is required by a global Telecoms company on an initial 6 month contract.
Required Skills/Experience:
It's very important that you have professional services experience in the Telco industry. The ideal candidate will have worked with or managed external 3rd party professional services organisations. You must have worked with global systems where organisations are supplying contingent labour or outsourcing work. You must have clear Vendor / Partner Management experience at Supplier Level and not at project level as the internal stakeholders would be managing at this level. Although this is NOT a procurement role, you could be from a junior procurement background, as long as you can demonstrate strong Vendor / Partner Management at a senior level. **This is NOT a Project Management, Programme Management, Director or Head of role**.
Role Responsibilities:
You will be managing contract renewals via Procurement, change requests, disputes, and raising Pos to ensure suppliers are paid. You will also be managing the SLA performance and working with the business owners within our client where supplier performance hasn't been where it should be. There may be some conflict resolution occasionally, so experience in this is necessary. You will also ensure supplier governance is as the contract states. You will be managing all the contractual elements and being the partner between suppliers and business owners within our client, ensuring a great service delivery and working with internal and external parties to support improvements needed. All IT related suppliers will be involved, so a background in this area is essential. Suppliers are responsible for a number of areas; services, testing, IT resources, software, and some cloud services.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.
Disclaimer:
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to the level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies. Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.
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