Vendor Manager

Job Description

Dear Future, Vendor Manager

The role requires you to engage with and maintain relationships with vendors and drive delivery from third party suppliers

Are you someone who can:

- Deliver against operational and cost targets.
- Prioritize resource allocation to minimize and reduce wastage.
- Monitor costs for the financial year according to the operational plan
- Allocates and approves expenditure.
- Identify, control and escalate potential risks that may lead to increased costs.
- Deliver customer experience excellence aligned to Organizational values and service standards.
- Build professional long-term relationships with customers based on trust that builds the brand.
- Collect and interrogate information and feedback to ensure full understanding of customer needs to deliver a quality service.
- Provide customers with relevant information to keep them informed of products and service options.
- Ensure own product knowledge and guidance provided is technically accurate and collects feedback to help improve customer service.
- Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in.
- Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support.
- Conduct comprehensive reviews of account activity and terms of all types of accounts following relevant policies/procedures.
- Identify customer needs and offering solutions.
- Proactively oversee fiduciary risk exposure within the Collective Investment Schemes for which we are appointed.
- Oversee client accounts in order to create, expand, and serve relationships.
- Perform internal audits to verify compliance with established standards and partners directly with risk partners.
- Provide CIS fiduciary oversight and answers difficult or complex questions regarding collective investment schemes and portfolio fiduciary risk and compliance oversight.
- Review documents and works with team members to ensure proper documentation of management company actions, policies and procedures.
- Make decisions in complex situations requiring excellent understanding of the function, policies, procedures, and compliance requirements that influence and lead broader work team to meet deliverables and drive new initiatives.
- Ensure compliance with relevant statutory, legislative, policy and governance requirements in area of accountability.
- Ensure implementation of relevant policies, governance and practice standards across the business.
- Maintain knowledge on relevant legislative amendments, industry best practices and internal compliance procedures and requirements.
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by organization and review in response to audit findings and changes.
- Develops an understanding of risks and risk management approaches.
- Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialization and identify risks.
- Educates others and makes suggestions for improvements.
- Networks and participates in specialist risk forums where required.
- Implement, monitor and control business processes according to quality standards; policy; and compliance and governance requirements in area of accountability.
- Ensure the development, alignment, mapping and implementation of end-to-end processes aligned to the customer journey map.
- Research, enable and consult on improvements and opportunities to harness technology and platform enablement.
- Improve business decisions by providing accurate and reliable business intelligence (information) together with analyzing trends and data.
- Provide timeous reports on management company conduct and oversight, scheme audit reporting and processes as well as regulatory reporting required from time to time.
- Are an Admitted attorney
- Have extensive knowledge on contract law
- Specific experience in Supplier contracts
- 3 - 5 years’ experience in similar role
- Have Legal Insurance work experience

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You will have access to:

- Opportunities to network and collaborate
- A challenging working environment
- Opportunities to innovate

We can be a match if you are:

- Adaptable and curious
- Have a proven successful track record.
- Thrive in a collaborative environment

Are you interested to take the step? We look forward to engaging with you

Job Details

Application Closing Date

15/04/24