Charles Schwab

Vendor Sourcing Manager, Professional Services

Charles Schwab$90K — $120K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in professional services category management and strategic sourcing
  • Experience leading Request for Proposals (RFPs) with market intelligence and financial analysis
  • Proficiency in contract negotiations with risk review teams and Legal
  • Strong communication skills for building relationships with senior business partners
  • Ability to manage cross-functional teams for contract negotiations
  • Effective negotiation skills to explore alternatives and achieve mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite

Responsibilities

  • Provide strategic sourcing support and contract negotiation for business partners
  • Establish and maintain relationships with Schwab business partners and Legal stakeholders
  • Manage the strategic sourcing lifecycle and lead negotiations on vendor engagements
  • Collaborate with the Sourcing team to develop sourcing strategies
  • Utilize procurement services tools to support supplier and business partner relationships
  • Support administrative tasks such as contract routing and reporting

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model (4 days in office, 1 day from home)
  • Located in Westlake, TX or Lone Tree, CO
  • Opportunity to engage with a dynamic and collaborative team
  • Exposure to both large projects and administrative tasks
  • Potential for personal and professional growth in strategic sourcing practices
Full Job Description

What you’ll do:

 

The Vendor Sourcing Manager, Professional Services role plays an essential role within CVM by providing business partners with strategic sourcing support, contract negotiation and risk mitigation.  In this role you will also support the broader Sourcing team to manage routing contracts for signature and various other reporting and administrative requirements.

 

This position will be responsible for establishing strong relationships with Schwab business partners across the firm and Legal stakeholders to develop, maintain and execute contracts for IT and non-IT professional services.  This role will manage all aspects of the strategic sourcing lifecycle; lead negotiations, as well as collaborate with risk groups and legal, as required on vendor engagements.  This position will partner with the broader Sourcing team to develop sourcing strategies and ensure that industry-leading procurement services tools are utilized to support growth relationships for our suppliers and business partners.  The position will not manage people; it is an individual contributor role.

 

 

Please note: This position is Monday - Friday during standard business hours with a hybrid work model (4 days in office, 1 day working from home). It is only available in Westlake, TX and Lone Tree, CO. Candidate must reside in or be willing to relocate on their own to one of the listed locations.

 

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis without employer sponsorship.

What you have

To ensure that we fulfill our promise of “challenging the status quo,” this role has specific qualifications that successful candidates should have.

 

Required Qualifications:

  • 5+ years of experience in professional services category management and strategic sourcing
  • Practice leading Request for Proposals (RFPs), including developing market intelligence reports, conducting financial analysis and thorough supplier evaluations (required)
  • Proficiency leading contract negotiations, including coordination with multiple risk review teams and Legal, in a regulated environment (required)
  • Strong oral and written communication skills with a proven track record of building effective working relationships with senior level business partners
  • The ability to partner with and project manage cross-functional teams to drive contract and price negotiations that maximize value and mitigate risks while ensuring internal stakeholders’ requirements are met
  • Strong negotiation skills, with ability to effectively explore alternatives to reach mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Proficiency in MS Office Suite

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience with Zip, PeopleSoft and/or Access
  • Ariba Cloud

 

You demonstrate these behaviors:

  • Positivity:  brings energy and optimism to our dynamic workplace; is open to both large/complex sourcing projects as well as more administrative deals and tasks
  • Strong Communication (written/verbal/interpersonal):  can easily communicate up, down and across the organization with a proven capability to make contributions to teams and initiatives
  • Analytical Thinking:  ability to analyze data, and apply it to develop and implement sourcing strategies and contract negotiations
  • Self-starter:  able to manage multiple projects and succeed in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with minimal direction; self-motivated to learn and take on new responsibilities and proactively seek out answers to solve problems
  • Adaptable:  comfort and ability to quickly take on new, challenging projects and also perform administrivia support to the Enterprise Services Sourcing team as required

About Charles Schwab

Charles Schwab is a financial services company that provides a full range of securities, brokerage, banking, money management, financial advisory, investor, and retirement plan services. It operates in four main divisions; investing, wealth management, banking, and trading. Charles Schwab provides a full-service brokerage platform that serves individual investors who invest on their own or through a workplace-sponsored retirement or equity plan, as well as banking through Schwab Bank. The firm was founded in 1973 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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Size
34,200 employees
Market Cap
$151.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
$3.2 billion
Founded
1973
5 Year Trend
+20%
Revenue
$12.1 billion
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