Vendor Operations Management Consultant Sr_
Indianapolis
**Vendor Operations Management Consultant Sr**
**Location: Indiana** This position will work a hybrid model (remote and office). The ideal candidate will live within 50 miles of our Elevance Health PulsePoint location in Indianapolis, Indiana.
The **Vendor Operations Management Consultant Sr** is responsible for managing the day-to-day vendor performance per contractual service level agreements and ensures vendor conformity to enterprise standards, operational processes and management guidelines to ensure business goals are achieved for an enterprise function.
**How you will make an impact:**
+ Recommends and implements vendor parameters regarding vendor production and quality in support of business objectives.
+ Provides subject matter expertise support in constructing performance-based, accountability-driven vendor/business partner agreements, statements of work and procedures as needed.
+ Develops tracks, analyzes and reports on operations metrics related to the outsourcing program success.
+ Monitors vendor performance to ensure compliance with service level agreements and facilitates corrective action regarding performance issues to resolution with the vendor.
+ May oversee a vendor work team that is focused on a specific function and is responsible for daily inventory management between the company's teams and the vendor operations teams.
+ Facilitates the planning and implementation of the transition of new work items assigned to the vendor in support of strategic goals and budget.
+ Participates in fact-based negotiations of vendor contracts to ensure most cost- effective terms.
**Minimum Requirements:**
Requires a BA/BS degree in business or a related field; 7 - 10 years of vendor/relationship management, inventory management, contract management, process improvement, project /program management experience; or any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background.