Senior Manager, Tech Vendor Management

At PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL), we believe that every person has the right to participate fully in the global economy. Our mission is to revolutionize commerce globally to make moving money, selling and shopping, personalized and secure. 

Job Description Summary:

The Vendor Management Office is looking for a Senior Manager to help manage relationships across technology vendors.

Job Description:

Title: Senior Manager, Technology Vendor Management

Meet our Team:
The PayPal Office of the CTO (OCTO) team supports all of the technology organization in all business operations functions, ranging from portfolio management to vendor management, and all in between.

You will own the central vendor management solutions for technology: enabling the team to deploy vendor strategy, building vendor performance scorecards, managing and deploying cross-functional vendor business cases, and driving transparency across the organization into overall vendor spend.

Your Way to Impact:

You will own the solutions that will drive vendor strategies and vendor governance, resulting in cost optimization, enhanced vendor performance, and increased vendor transparency.

You will partner closely with our technology technical SMEs, Procurement, HR, Legal, and Finance teams. You will assume centralized ownership of processes, procedures, and all analytics and technology vendor partnerships, enabling the vision to build toward a best-in-class future state. 

Your Day-to-Day:

• You will take the lead in creating a one-stop-shop to manage all vendor commitments and vendor spend, including but not limited to: vendor capabilities, contracts, external resources, vendor deliverables, vendor SLAs, etc. 
• Drive process improvement and streamline system usage to ensure timely execution of vendor engagements.
• Enable vendor consolidation through capability management, business case justification, and transparency to vendor performance.
• Bring your project management skills and your ability to juggle in managing multiple projects, drive new processes, managing scope, schedule, and resources.
• You will be required to build and nurture influential partnerships with key stakeholders in the business.

What You Need to Bring:

• A successful candidate should have at least 8+ years of experience within vendor management and contract negotiation (preferably at an enterprise level organization).
• Proven track record of driving complex vendor processes, consolidation, and process improvements.
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders with varying needs.
• Experience in understanding the complexities of vendor management datasets and combining into a single view.  
• Experience evaluating vendor performance.
• Highly flexible, able to prioritize multiple projects and deadlines to execute well in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving organization.
• Strong understanding of technology vendor landscape
• Ability to navigate very large and complex contracts to reduce spend and drive savings is preferred.
• Experience with vendor tools such as Fieldglass or ServiceNow preferred.
• BS/BA in Business, Business Information Systems, Computer Science or similar degree is preferred but not required.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates. Please don't hesitate to apply.

Additional Job Description:

Subsidiary:

PayPal

Travel Percent:

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Our Benefits:
At PayPal, we’re committed to building an equitable and inclusive global economy. And we can’t do this without our most important asset—you. That’s why we offer benefits to help you thrive in every stage of life. We champion your financial, physical, and mental health by offering valuable benefits and resources to help you care for the whole you.
We have great benefits including a flexible work environment, employee shares options, health and life insurance and more. To learn more about our benefits please visit https://www.paypalbenefits.com

Who We Are:
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PayPal has been revolutionizing commerce globally for more than 25 years. Creating innovative experiences that make moving money, selling, and shopping simple, personalized, and secure, PayPal empowers consumers and businesses in approximately 200 markets to join and thrive in the global economy. For more information, visit https://www.paypal.com ,  https://about.pypl.com and  https://investor.pypl.com.

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