Job Title
Manager - Vendor ManagementJob Description Summary
The Manager for Vendor Management is responsible for overseeing vendor relationships and facilitating the efficient delivery of services that support Portfolio Administration. This role involves managing vendor set up, optimizing workflows, and driving continuous improvements to enhance service quality and efficiency. The Manager fosters strong partnerships with vendors, mitigates risks, and ensures alignment with business objectives and client expectations. The position entails collaborating with cross-functional teams and providing strategic insights to improve team performance and contribute to the overall success of vendor management functions.Job Description
About the Role:
- Manage Portfolio Administration services for accounts ranging from a single to multiple accounts.
- Oversee operations on a day-to-day basis ensuring work is completed and deadlines are met ensuring excellent client service is delivered to internal and external clients.
- Lead, mentor, and manage a team, providing guidance, training, and performance feedback.
- Delegate tasks effectively to team members, ensuring work is completed accurately and within deadlines.
- Foster a collaborative, high-performing team culture that emphasizes continuous improvement and adherence to company standards
About You:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Minimum of 10 years of work experience -- procurement, supply chain, vendor relationship management. Relevant experience in invoice processing, expense reconciliations and real estate will be additional advantage.
- At least 5 years of experience supervising a team providing guidance and training to ensure productivity and accuracy.
- Proficient in using lease administration and EFT/ERP /financial software.
- High proficiency in lease management systems and database tools.
Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from.
- Being part of a growing global company.
- Career development and a promote from within culture.
- An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion
We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.
We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.
We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.
That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status.
We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.
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