Senior Vendor Manager - London, United Kingdom - eFinancialCareers

eFinancialCareers

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

Responsibilities:

Day to day management of assigned vendors ensuring appropriate governance and oversight is in place and appropriately documented in line with SVB policies and regulatory requirements
Develop, agree and implement action plans where needed to bring relationships to the required standard or further enhance the outsource relationship
Negotiation of commercial and contractual aspects of the relationship partnering with the Sourcing & Procurement team
Proactively identify outsource opportunities, cost reduction options through renegotiation, supplier consolidation etc.
Keep abreast of the Outsourcing regulatory arena working with the Outsourcing & Vendor Management Director to ensure that all practices remain compliant to the latest requirements and best practices
Ensure risks associated to outsource relationships are determined, understood, mitigated or accepted as appropriate.
Support and actively contribute to the build out of the function ensuring all development align with business and regulatory requirements.

Skills

Prior experience in vendor management within a financial services environment
CIPS qualification beneficial
Strong interpersonal, analytical, problem solving, organizational, prioritization, decisionmaking, and conflict resolution skills.
Positive energy, "spirit of collaboration" and partnership
Proactively build internal relationships across all levels of the organisation
Strong communication abilities, including strong written and verbal skills, and the ability to explain complex issues and convey information, both internally and externally, in an articulate and professional manner

Competencies

Client Focus
Problem Resolution
Results Driven
Takes Initiative / Self Motivated
Performance Management
Personal Accountability

Travel
Willingness to travel to other EMA regions

Location

London

This is a full-time role ordinarily based in the office.

However, there will be some flexibility/hybrid to work from home on occasions in line with the HR team agreement aligning to that of SVB's 'virtual-first' way of working.