I.t. Vendor Manager

Our downtown Toronto client is seeking an I.T. Vendor Manager on contract.

This will be a 12 month contract to start and will very likely continue to extend.

This will be a long term contract opportunity.

Please find the details below...

• Need a leader in this space
• Hybrid work environment - 2 days in office (Tuesday + any other day of the week)
• Should have managed vendor relationships with modern vendors
• Define / improve processes by accessing the landscape
• Net new role, portfolio has grown
• Understand technology enough to know where things fit in the IT landscape (cloud, dev tech, security, and other bleeding edge tech)

Relationship Management

- work with internal executives, product owners, IT Managers

- work with vendors

- very strong verbal and written communication to communicate with executives

- strong people person

Vendor Management

- managed relationships with multiple vendors from Infra, development, cloud, hosted services, etc

- meet vendors on a regular, setting up touch points

- being involved in escalations

- involved in service issues

KPIs

- can improve metrics

- be a thought leader

- define the process

- able to use data points to let executives know how relationship with vendor x is doing

Nice to have skills and experience

- participate in RFPs, RFIs

- Rate negotiations

$80 - $90 per hour for an INC consultant, flexible depending on experience.

If you're interested, please reply with a copy of your updated resume and I will be in contact quickly with additional details and next steps.