Milestone Technologies

Vendor Manager

Milestone Technologies$80K — $120K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Minimum 5 years of vendor management experience in an enterprise environment
  • Skilled in defining KPIs, SLAs, and OLAs with custom reporting dashboards
  • Proven experience in establishing a new vendor management program
  • Strong analytical abilities for assessing vendor performance metrics
  • Preferred experience in Wireless Telecom or with BSS vendors
  • Excellent communication and leadership skills for cross-functional collaboration
  • Knowledgeable in contract lifecycle management and vendor risk processes
  • Proficient with vendor management and business intelligence tools
  • Hybrid work schedule, requiring onsite presence 3 days a week.

Responsibilities

  • Manage vendor relationships for BSS providers in wholesale functions
  • Track and report on KPIs, SLAs, and OLAs for vendor performance
  • Identify inefficiencies in metrics and propose new KPIs
  • Collaborate with product, IT, operations, and business teams to align vendor performance
  • Oversee compliance, financial reconciliations, and risk management
  • Maintain communication with vendors through meetings and performance reviews
  • Drive continuous improvement of vendor performance metrics and compliance
  • Lead initiatives involving cross-functional teams and stakeholders
  • Utilize vendor management tools to monitor performance data.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work schedule with 3 days onsite in the office
  • Opportunity to influence business operations within a growing program
  • Possibility for professional development in vendor management
  • Access to cross-functional collaboration with various departments
  • Involvement in key initiatives that enhance vendor performance and contract compliance.
Full Job Description
Summary:
Milestone Technologies is seeking a Vendor Manager to lead vendor relationship management for Business Support Systems (BSS) providers supporting a client's wholesale program. This role is responsible for tracking, measuring, and reporting vendor performance against KPIs, SLAs, and OLAs, ensuring vendors meet commitments and contribute to the success of wholesale operations. The Vendor Manager will also evaluate the effectiveness of current metrics and recommend improvements.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Manage vendor relationships for BSS providers supporting wholesale functions such as account creation, service activation, billing, and customer care.
  • Track and report on contractual KPIs, SLAs, and OLAs, ensuring timely and accurate vendor performance data.
  • Identify gaps or inefficiencies in existing metrics and suggest new KPIs to improve performance measurement.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with product, IT, operations, and business teams to align vendor performance with business needs.
  • Oversee contract compliance, financial reconciliations, and risk management related to vendor agreements.
  • Maintain regular communication with vendors through status meetings, scorecards, and performance reviews.
  • Own the continuous improvement of vendor performance metrics and contract compliance to drive business results.
  • Lead initiatives that influence cross-functional teams and foster strong stakeholder relationships.
  • Utilize client provided vendor management and reporting tools to monitor and communicate performance data.

Qualifications:
  • Minimum 5 years proven experience in vendor management within an enterprise environment with a focus on KPI and metric tracking.
  • Experience defining custom KPIs, SLAs, and OLAs and establishing custom dashboards to track and report vendor performance.
  • Demonstrated thought leadership standing up a new vendor management program and incorporating new vendors as they are added.
  • Strong analytical skills and the ability to assess and improve vendor performance metrics.
  • Experience working in Wireless Telecom or with BSS vendors preferred but not required.
  • Excellent communication, leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Knowledge of contract lifecycle management and vendor risk programs.
  • Proficiency with vendor management, reporting, and business intelligence tools.
  • Must be able to work onsite 3 days per week (hybrid schedule).

About Milestone Technologies

Continental Aerospace Technologies is an aircraft engine manufacturer located at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama, United States. It was originally spun off from automobile engine manufacturer Continental Motors Company in 1929 and owned by Teledyne Technologies from 1969 until December 2010. The company is now part of Aviation Industry Corporation of China, which is a Government of the People's Republic of China state-owned aerospace company headquartered in Beijing. Although Continental is most well known for its engines for light aircraft, it was also contracted to produce the air-cooled V-12 AV-1790-5B gasoline engine for the U.S. Army's M47 Patton tank and the diesel AVDS-1790-2A and its derivatives for the M48, M60 Patton, and Merkava main battle tanks. The company also produced engines for various independent manufacturers of automobiles, tractors, and stationary equipment from the 1920s to the 1960s.
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