Asst Dir Sourcing & Procurement

Summary :

A trusted advisor to the Wealth, Investments, and Finance senior leadership and other key stakeholders in developing and managing strategic business plans for critical / high risk and strategic vendor relationships.

Provide guidance as to strategic sourcing, procurement services, and vendor management; negotiate multi-million dollar agreements with strategic and key vendors, typically with a 3-5 year duration; oversee enterprise and shared vendor management programs; drive organizational change to move enterprise to a centralized vendor management methodology; leverage strategic vendor relationships to drive improvement and innovation across multiple business units / functions; create and implement strategy for engaging vendors for corporate project portfolio initiatives within the Strategy Alignment and Execution process; apply best practices to ensure company meets regulatory and compliance standards.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities :

• Partners with Wealth & Investments senior leadership and other key stakeholders across enterprise business functions to develop strategy, vendor goals and execution plans for their critical / high risk and strategic vendor relationships.
• Perform negotiations of : Master Services Agreements (MSA’s), Enterprise Licensing Agreements, Data Subscription Agreements, Statements of Work, and NDA’s in partnership with the Business, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Tech teams.
• Develops and manages holistic enterprise vendor relationship management program with the support of business unit relationship owners.
• Provides coaching to executive relationship owners and their teams on how to leverage strategic vendor relationships to accomplish long term objectives comprised of an appropriate balance of innovation, efficiencies and financial management of company funds.
• Serve as the direct point of contact for business partners of the full strategic sourcing process (Intake to pay).
• Leads cross departmental project teams with accountability for managing scope, risk, business value, schedule and budgets for 3rd party relationships.
• Research best practices and proactively identifies emerging trends of Fintech and Financial Data and Research Providers with vendor relationship management framework that are applicable at NM.
• Applies best practices to ensure company meets regulatory and compliance standards. Assists in the creation, implementation, and monitoring of programs as a result of industry changes.
• Researches, analyzes and recommends significant process and workflow improvement efforts and implements initiatives that may result in extensive changes in workflow, adjustments in the organization or significant systems modifications including the addition of new work processes.
• Conduct RFIs / RFPs / competitive events for business stakeholders along with supplier rationalization exercises.
• Provide executive level reporting of 3rd party spend and risk management metrics

Qualifications :

#LI-Hybird

Compensation Range : Pay Range - Start :

$92,750.00

Pay Range - End : $172,250.00

Geographic Specific Pay Structure :

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