Vendor Management Specialist

Summary

Join Cohere Health as a Vendor Management Specialist and contribute to the success of our fast-growing clinical intelligence company. You will play a key role in fostering strong vendor relationships, ensuring alignment with business objectives, and driving operational excellence. This position involves managing vendor SLAs and SOWs, project managing new vendor implementations, and collaborating cross-functionally. Success in this role requires excellent customer service, project management experience, strong communication skills, and a self-starter attitude. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced startup environment and possesses experience in procurement practices and vendor selection processes. Cohere Health offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• Excellent customer service and professionalism
• Experience with providing project management
• Strong mindset for vendor partnerships and collaborations
• Strong communicator
• Self starter
• Strong organizational skills
• Self-directed, confident, and thrive working in a fast-paced startup environment
• Experience solving complex customer or vendor issues
• Experience with procurement practices, RFI/RFP/Informal Quotes and vendor selection process
• Managed a comprehensive portfolio of vendors and their outcomes
• Strategic advisor to the business on vendor solutions

Responsibilities

• Directly involved with vendor/department relationships
• Track vendor SLAs and SOWs
• Project manage implementation of new vendors
• Work cross-functionally with other teams to analyze, plan, and manage vendor success
• Develop and maintain key vendor relationships
• Assist with procurement processes when seeking out new vendors
• Help create, implement, enforce new policies
• Proactively identify where problems can occur and remediate
• Monitor quality and details of vendor performance; locate poor performance swiftly and effectively and provide feedback to solutions

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401k
• Bonus