Sr. GCS Strategic Partnerships Manager

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Job description

Title: Sr. GCS Strategic Partnerships Manager

Location: Miami, FL (hybrid)

Duration: Direct Hire

Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the US

Job Description

Responsible for performance, and relationship management of the hardware, software, and labor agreements on behalf of the Corporation Cybersecurity Services Team.

Responsible for managing portfolio of contracts worth over $300M.

Closely collaborates with vendors, GCS leaders, Finance, Global Sourcing, HR, and Legal as a representative from GCS in the sourcing process. This resource is a subject matter expert in the analysis, interpretation and presentation of performance and relationship measures.

Collaborates with GCS Leaders to anticipate sourcing needs while establishing comprehensive portfolio of high performing vendors.

Oversees managed service agreements to ensure transparency on performance and adherence to contractual obligations by the vendor.

Conducts recurring compliance reviews with vendor and IT leadership.

Essential Functions:

Performance Management: Drive quality vendor delivery through the analysis, interpretation, and management of performance metrics. Ensure vendor accountability through robust service level reporting

Vendor Relationship Management: Holds regular business reviews to help identify, develop, and strengthen relationships with key strategic vendors. Responsible for any customized GCS requirement setting for our vendors. Helps develop vendor management processes including templates and cadence for business reviews. Ensures vendors are following our processes and procedures. Owns vendor relationships. Responsible for onboarding and offboarding any GCS vendors as well as ensuring compliance with our established third-party risk management process

Sourcing and Contracts: Acts as a representative for GCS in the sourcing process. Drive contract lifecycle while also adhering to the global sourcing policies. Ensure timeliness of contracts managed by sourcing and provides full end-to-end RFP and contract lifecycle management for sourcing engagements which don't meet the global sourcing spend threshold

Continuous Improvement: Responsible for developing and implementing a multi-faceted continuous improvement process incorporating both observed issues as well as recommendations for process improvements

People Management: This resource may manage a small team of resources to assist with vendor and contract management

Qualifications:

Education: A Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain or Information Technology. Master's degree a plus.

Years & or Area of Professional experience: 7+ years in a vendor management or service delivery role with experience generating, amending and terminating contracts. Experience designing and monitoring SLAs

Critical Professional Related Technical/Computer Skills: ServiceNow or other ticketing system, CMDB, ITIL. Contracts management systems

Experience with contracts and vendor management for a large, shared services organization is a requirement. Experience with cybersecurity vendors is a plus

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Contract negotiations, Vendor Management & Service Delivery

Decision-Making:

Strategic: Decisions affect the long-term direction and policy of the entire company. These decisions affect the short-term and long-term performance of GCS. Strategic decisions are high-risk because their outcomes are largely unknown and have a huge impact. These types of decisions are usually made at the top level of a company. Examples are: New services, acquisitions.

Tactical: Decisions focus on intermediate-term issues. The purpose of decisions made at this level are to help move GCS closer to reaching strategic goals. Outcomes are predictable. After a decision is made by Top Executive Leadership, the next phase is to take the needed steps to implement it. Examples are: The amount of money required to implement, which advertising agency to promote a new service or to provide an incentive plan to employees to encourage increased revenue.

Operational: Decisions focus on day-to-day activities within the company. Decisions made at this level help to ensure that daily activities proceed smoothly and therefore help to move the company toward reaching a strategic goal. They have short term consequences. Examples are: Handling employee conflicts, purchasing materials needed for operations

Standard: These decisions are those that are repetitive decisions on a recurring basis and are commonly related to daily activities. They are relatively simple, relying on historical data and previous solutions. Examples are: reordering of standard office supplies, handling transactions

Our benefits package includes:

Comprehensive medical benefits

Competitive pay

401(k) retirement plan

and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions

Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at (url removed).

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities

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