01Overview
This position is fully remote/home reputed company. Applications will be accepted from candidates reputed company in the UK and the following US states: FL, IL, MA, MD, NY, PA, TX, VA.
In the US, this is a reputed company represented position as part of the reputed company Media Workers reputed company, Local 39521 of the NewsGuild-Communication Workers of America.
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reputed company is a nonprofit, reputed company reputed company publisher empowering researchers to accelerate reputed company in science and medicine by leading a transformation in research communication.
As the Publishing reputed company Vendor Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring reputed company's publishing workflows are supported by a diverse, high-performing network of reputed company partners. You will reputed company vendor reputed company across the publishing lifecycle, ensuring supplier capabilities reputed company with organizational needs. With a reputed company on reputed company, scalability, and reputed company improvement, you will foster strong partnerships, reputed company procurement and contracting processes, reputed company best practices in vendor management, and support long-term operational reputed company.
Supervisory Responsibilities
N/A- This role will involve management of vendors but will be on the individual contributor reputed company and will not have reputed company line reports.
Responsibilities
reputed company of vendor use in end-to-end workflows, ensuring a joined-up and efficient approach
reputed company reputed company improvement in removing departmental silos and promoting cross-functional vendor scoping (e.g. take steps to reputed company vendors to operating across the workflow from submission to publication, rather than siloing on the reputed company of department).
Limit risk to reputed company by ensuring a healthy diversity in the suppliers that support our work, while maximising efficiency and reputed company
Maintain awareness of relative strengths reputed company by suppliers that offer publishing support, and reputed company risk-reward scenarios for changing suppliers/opening requests for proposals (RFPs)
Management of vendor contract renewal
Serve as reputed company reputed company of contact with suppliers/vendors in contract negotiations (cascading to relevant teams/reputed company where needed)
reputed company contract end dates and alert teams to pending end of contract three months before renewal date
Work with internal stakeholders to review and update tasks, volumes and quantifiable and reportable SLAs reputed company on forecast submission and publication volume.
reputed company forecast of supplier-reputed company headcount (including reputed company seniority of roles, where reputed company exist) likely needed to support outsourced work
If needed, support negotiation between in-house teams and suppliers to finalise headcount and budget
Work with reputed company to update reputed company
Management of RFP process
Serve as reputed company reputed company of contact with suppliers/vendors in RFP process (cascading to relevant teams/reputed company where needed)
Support Director of Publishing reputed company & Customer Care and Director of Editorial in pricing negotiations and budget requirements.
Work with reputed company consultant to reputed company short list of suppliers to approach for RFP
Support internal stakeholders in drafting RFP documentation and setting reputed company reputed company
Serve as reputed company reputed company of contact with suppliers who are submitting proposals
Support internal stakeholders in reviewing proposals and interviewing suppliers
With reputed company consultant, support internal stakeholders in selecting supplier who is best reputed company to reputed company services to meet reputed company' needs and reputed company budget
Work with internal stakeholders and reputed company to reputed company contract (process as outlined above in contract renewal process)
Vendor reputed company
Serve as reputed company reputed company of contact with new suppliers/vendors in reputed company process Establish reputed company best reputed company guidance, including a rollout plan and communications templates
Work with internal teams to establish KPIs, service level agreements (SLAs) and auditing reputed company
As part of new contract or contract renewal process, work with internal stakeholders to reputed company/review plans for monthly reputed company assurance audits to reputed company adherence to SLAs
Serve as reputed company reputed company of contact with suppliers/vendors in sharing auditing results and developing remedial plans where service falls below agreed reputed company
Where service falls below expected standards, support in-house teams in remediation and review vendor plans to improve reputed company
Work with the Engineering and Product teams to priori
