Manager of Vendor Management

Overview

Manages vendor relationships, contracts, compliance, and reporting.

Key Responsibilities

• vendor management
• contract negotiation
• compliance monitoring
• vendor tracking
• reporting
• risk management

Tasks

-Attend company sponsored events that relate to the development of the team, which from time to time may include overnight stays at locations away from the employee's home. -Maintains and executes the Vendor Management Program. -Ensures that the organization maintains appropriate and well-managed third-party vendor relationships across the organization. Works with managers to ensure that they are holding vendors accountable for their actions in relation to our contract and service agreements. -Participates in the negotiation of service level agreements, works with the Legal department when necessary to complete new contracts, ensures that contractual obligations are achieved, and initiates contract changes when required. -Ensures thorough documentation that all vendor contracts are in line with our vendor management policy and are reviewed by each vendor's relationship manager/owner on a routine basis for continual compliance. -Establishes a time frame for ongoing vendor due diligence reviews, including insurance and licensure as applicable, and follows up with managers to ensure they are conducted as required. -Responsible for optimizing vendor relationships through contract and relationship management and financial and quantitative analyses to effectively create mutually beneficial opportunities. -Operate computer and office equipment. -Collaborates with Senior Management to develop criteria and best practices for vendor selection. -Responsible for ensuring compliance with negotiated agreements relating to operations. -Responsible for ensuring all vendor contracts and documents are received in a timely manner and works with other functions within the company to ensure proper onboarding into our Vendor Café system. -Maintains tracking system for vendor service contracts. -Designs, prepares, and analyzes reports for management based on the Vendor Café platform (Yardi). -Works with Senior Management and consultants to implement improvements to the current Vendor Management Program, including appropriate risk management tools, policies, and procedures to be compliant with applicable rules and regulations using industry best practices. -Serves as a point of escalation for vendor issues and disputes and drives those issues to resolution.

Requirements

• interpersonal skills
• data analysis
• excel
• yardi erp
• college degree
• 5 years

What You Bring

-Strong interpersonal skills to be able to establish relationships with internal partners to build consensus and deliver various types of messages to internal and external parties. -Strong data analytical skills and understanding of MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, and Smartsheets. Strong knowledge of Vendor Café and Yardi ERP system is a plus. -Minimum of a high school diploma or GED required. College degree or certification preferred. -Effective in response to shifting priorities and assignments and ability to meet deadlines and expectations. Effective in delivering messages across a wide spectrum of individuals at the company having varying degrees of technical understanding. -Five years of similar or related experience, including time spent in preparatory positions. -Ability to identify issues and work them to closure, including remediation and escalation where appropriate.

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Benefits

-$85,000 - $86,000/yr

About National Community Renaissance

-Pioneered nonprofit-led affordable housing by merging two California nonprofits. -Focuses on sustainable, transit-oriented communities, including zero-net-energy senior villas with solar array designs. -Builds more than housing by embedding preschools, wellness centers, and on-site services through its Hope through Housing Foundation. -Operates primarily in California, Texas, Florida, and Arkansas with typical projects of multifamily, senior, workforce, and special-needs housing. -Known for maintaining long-term ownership and stewardship, including reacquiring properties through resyndication. -Achieved LEED Power Builder status for three consecutive years, leading in net-zero energy affordable developments.

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