Vendor Manager Cover Letter

In response to your job posting for vendor manager, I am including this letter and my resume for your review.

In my previous role, I was responsible for insights to commercial teams around supply, demand, and pricing trends in material markets to support decision making.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Solid working knowledge of Word, Excel and SharePoint
• Project/PMO Management experience managing large transition/transformation projects
• Experience in a procurement and/or business finance related role requiring strong negotiation and presentation skills
• Contract experience including building work orders and master services agreements with vendors (full or part time in role)
• Proven understanding and experience working and communicating with cross functional teams and across all business levels from Analyst to Director
• Excellent communication skills experience working with customers internally and externally
• A strong work ethic with high customer service acumen
• Written and verbal communication skills in Portuguese

I am excited to be applying for the position of vendor manager. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for weekly updates to Country Demand planner for supply trends and ensure stock availability for midmarket business demands.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Functional knowledge of OPIE IT Systems, a bonus
• Solid knowledge of MS Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook
• Consistently handle multiple tasks, exercise good judgment with strong attention to detail
• Strong negotiating and relationship skills
• Strong understanding of SW technologies which will include T&D tools, databases, and application software
• Strategic understanding of commercial imperatives
• Strong understanding of legal, tax and financial aspects of negotiated contracts
• Manage multiple initiatives and situations that require coordination of various resources and interaction with multiple business partners (vendor, line of business partners, corporate workplace, technology, sourcing) at any one time

I am excited to be applying for the position of vendor manager. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for coaching and mentoring that will promote program success; identify and manage key success drivers for programs.

Please consider my qualifications and experience:

• Optimizing scheduling of VA&A routines including vendor reviews and strategic business reviews
• Coordinating maintenance of VA&A procedures and process flows
• Coordinating vendor related business incident management activities and preparing and cascading associated communications
• Creating executive presentations as needed
• Coordinating VA&A effort supporting business line audit and regulatory exams while overseeing the planning of new and recurring vendor reviews and strategic business reviews
• Determining that efforts are not duplicated across the group and appropriately reflect the groups inherent and residual risk models or monitoring guidelines
• Experience working under pressure with efficiency and accuracy
• Working knowledge of Banking Regulations (OCC, FDIC, FRB)

I am excited to be applying for the position of vendor manager. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In the previous role, I was responsible for category market condition, pricing analysis, identify potential supply and demand challenges/ opportunities and monitor technological advances in Solar industry.

Please consider my experience and qualifications for this position:

• Contract and commercial negotiations and agreements in compliance with the Procurement process
• Maintaining an audit trail for all contracts and commercial agreements
• Supplier governance for the performance of contracted services
• Maintaining accurate records of Market Data Services deployed
• Managing the invoice payments for Market Data Services
• Defining and managing the budget for Market Data Services
• Setting accurate budget forecasts
• Keeping expenditure within budget

I am excited to be applying for the position of vendor manager. Please accept this letter and the attached resume as my interest in this position.

In my previous role, I was responsible for analytics for supply chain team to identify drivers and trends of various issues across supply chain.

My experience is an excellent fit for the list of requirements in this job:

• Support TDS’s vendor engagement strategy identifying opportunities to reduce vendor expenses and risk, negotiating with vendors and generating creative solutions to ensure we receive the most value and flexibility on our investments
• Applies negotiation methodology to achieve a balanced risk outcome
• Developed and networked business relationships outside beyond current employer
• Experience in guiding decisions and driving consensus among decision makers
• Business experience with health & welfare, retirement benefits providers
• Vendor sourcing and selection
• Knowledge of the print production, fulfillment and/or email marketing industry
• Experience in the PC industry