AVP - Vendor Management - BFSI/BPO/KPO

Responsibilities :

- Develop business cases, commercial and valuation models, and feasibility studies

- Supports the vendor relationship teams to deliver to defined strategies and plans. Contributes to strategy definition and communication

- Builds and maintains methods of vendor performance and financial data monitoring sufficient for trend analysis, benchmarking and recommendations, including high quality management information appropriate for up to Executive Committee review

- Manages vendor issues to resolve appropriately and escalates to senior management, where needed

- Runs RFX (RFP/RFI) processes in collaboration with relevant stakeholders

- Present business case to senior management to obtain sign-off and project funding

- Develop/execute/contribute to enterprise-wide strategic initiatives, including savings initiatives, cost reduction, resource/location/outsourcing strategies

- Create presentations for senior audience

- Lead upcoming projects and on-demand tasks such as savings initiatives, audits or data requests

- Lead on-boarding of new services/contracts to the team and ensure correct transition with adherence to standard consumption management processes

Experience :

- Proven record working in the areas of commercial management, sourcing initiatives, project management, accounting/finance, invoicing and consumption management

- Solid communications skills, comfortable interacting with senior management

- Ability to work independently with minimal oversight as well as in a team setting. Work in global teams across different time zones and within a matrix environment

- Ability to think strategically/conceptually, outside the box (natural curiosity); while delivering bottoms-up analysis with a detailed oriented and tactical approach

- Accountability, delivery oriented, work under pressure

- Excellent knowledge of MS Office standard applications, database knowledge

- Excellent experience in Excel (Advance level - pivots, vlookups etc.)

- Strong analytical and structured way of working

- Good Communication Skills

- Reporting skills over various hierarchical levels

- Willingness to challenge the status quo (to improve existing processes)

- Proactive, assertive and motivated team-worker in a global team

- Experience in invoice management or vendor/contract management in the financial industry

- An understanding of project management and the project lifecycle

- Ability to monitor, track and clearly communicate progress, escalating issues when appropriate

- Fluent in English (written/verbal)