Associate Vendor Job Description
Associate vendor
provides information, reporting and analysis using advanced knowledge and skills in various applications, such as: Excel, Tableau, PeopleSoft, and other HR information systems including, Enterprise Talent Management (ETM), Qualtrics Performance Management tool and Taleo.
Associate Vendor Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective associate vendor job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included associate vendor job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Analyze reports, provide feedbacks and insights
Create and develop process guidelines, document process & provide solutions on process pain-points with SOPs to then be executed with Manager Approval
Manage functional relationships with key internal and 3rd party partners
Develop and present ideas for strategic planning for 3rd party programs to increase sales and streamline processes
Development and execution of Dropship initiatives to grow the business and improve efficiencies
Attending and participating in Industry Forums
Review potential competitors in the market
Vendor service management
Familiarity with check processing procedures
Implementing appropriate strategies and processes to ensure relationships with key suppliers, deliver value-added, competitive solutions, which enable business to meet their objectives
Associate Vendor Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Associate Vendor
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CPSM, GCFW, GSEC, GIAC, CIPP, CISA, CISM, CPT, CEH, CISSP
Education for Associate Vendor
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the associate vendor job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Business, Management, Finance, Education, Engineering, Business/Administration, Accounting, Economics, MBA, Science
Skills for Associate Vendor
Desired skills for associate vendor include:
Oracle Applications Release 12 / SAP and higher
Digital tools used in project planning
Access databases
Experience using Excel
Supply/ demand trends and success drivers
Excel
HTML
Retail and operational principles
SharePoint
Website content management systems
Desired experience for associate vendor includes:
Identify month-end accruals for unpaid/unprocessed invoices
Establish processes for validation of invoices appropriate to the service and vendor (agree quantities delivered vs delivery records, agree unit prices back to contract)
Submission of invoices to payment systems including allocations to cost centers/GL accounts and identification of reviewers/approvers
Follow up on invoices still being reviewed and initial point of contact for internal/external inquiries related to processing/payment
Set up and perform monthly reconciliation to vendor account statements of outstanding invoices
Assist in preparation of regular reports to senior management analyzing spend vs budget and identification of cost drivers
Associate Vendor Examples
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Associate Vendor Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for an associate vendor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate vendor
- Assist with sourcing and initial due diligence and risk assessment of potential vendors
- Perform oversight and participate in targeted audits to ensure vendor compliance with legal requirements, firm and industry standards and contractual provisions
- Evaluate vendor performance, practices and control environment to minimize the firm’s exposure to regulatory and reputational risk
- Monitor to completion remediation strategies undertaken for identified risks and performance deficiencies
- Develop reports and presentations for management and related Committees
- Keep up to date with European regulatory environment, actions, guidance and industry practices
- Other duties as assigned by Inventory Manager
- Partner with vendors and internal teams to develop enhanced functionality and streamline inefficient/manual processes
- Tactically manages vendors to ensure timely and accurate deliverables
- Provides process management support for applicable vendor systems and processes to include ongoing process improvement, monitoring and reporting, troubleshooting issues, and assisting with implementation and UAT for system updates
Qualifications for associate vendor
- Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships at all levels throughout the firm
- BS/BA, preferably Risk Management focus or certificate and CRISC certification
- Ensure completeness of invoices received
- Knowledgeable about the mutual fund industry
- 2+ years financial services experience with back office background preferred
- FINRA Series 6, 7 or 63 preferred, but not required
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for an associate vendor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate vendor
- Leverage the Pardot marketing automation system to create dynamic email drip programs to client and non-client software vendors
- Collaborate with design team to develop email templates, landing pages, and sales collateral to generate leads for sales
- Create blog posts, video scripts, webinar slides, and other educational content pieces targeted toward B2B software marketers
- Develop A/B tests to optimize engagement with vendor email campaigns
- Report on email campaign results, highlighting opportunities for growth, areas of success, and trends
- Markets vendor service offerings such as landing page creation and reviews campaign services, and passes engaged vendors over to those teams
- Distributes educational emails such as monthly email newsletters, webinar invites, and guides
- Optimizes email deliverability, open rates, and click through rates through A/B tests and thorough understanding of current email marketing best practices
- Lead Campaign (both Promotion and PR events) design and development, drive traffic, conversion, customer growth by collaborating with multi functions as total business owner
- Evaluating on capabilities like Design, Development , Manufacturing ,Testing & other commercial/Business attributes, Assessment on QCD parameters
Qualifications for associate vendor
- Track and manage the tenure reporting
- Hel p design and run the vendor education program for F&BM and Technologists
- Manage the information provided by the CLO database
- Help to create the first CTO Vendor reporting packs and produce these at regular intervals through out the year
- Perform quality assurance on vendor contracts
- Invoice / Payments management and processing in various tools
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of associate vendor. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for associate vendor
- Participate in and present vendor management processes in project KOMs
- Follow up with 3rd party vendors to ensure timely resolution of issues
- Analyse sales and key metrics to identify business opportunities
- Performs 3P vendor database maintenance demands according to the process documentation
- Handles insolvent vendors
- Performs bank database maintenance and dual maintenance of vendors
- Performs Internal control reporting tasks
- Maintains Certificate of Exemption and Gas & Electricity Reseller certificates in SAP
- Handles emails and calls from business units and vendors
- Maintains a focused continuous improvement culture by identifying and executing strategies and priorities to enable the Vendor Management group to deliver value and enhance overall operational effectiveness
Qualifications for associate vendor
- Understanding of (SSAE) 16s and other technical certifications (ISOs)
- Develop and analyze vendor metrics and KPI’s (Key Performance Indicators) as well strategic vendor reporting including expense and headcount trends
- Liaise with various internal AM and Corporate groups related to vendor management and accounts payable
- Identify opportunities and recommend improvements for increased reporting and process efficiencies
- 3+ years experience in financial reporting / vendor management environment (experience supporting a Technology organization a plus)
- Prior people leadership experience desired, project teams, direct reports, with proven accountability, and demonstrated excellent interpersonal, communication, negotiation, influencing, and problem-solving capabilities
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking to fill the role of associate vendor. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for associate vendor
- Responsible for product disposition
- Be responsible for leading the team of IT asset management and IT Expense Management professionals, providing leadership, coordination and management of processes and functions
- Support execution of Telecom Expense Management & Wireless Provisioning teams that delivers
- Sustainable, predictable efficiencies while meeting stakeholder needs
- Support IT Asset Management Associate covering both Hardware Asset Management and Software
- Coordinating with Head of Operations Vendor Performance Management on process optimization
- Monitoring and reviewing the success of implementations on a continuous basis
- On-request tasks from Head of Department
- Identifies team of individuals who will have accountability for task completion
- Manages projects to ensure objectives are achieved according to measurement criteria
Qualifications for associate vendor
- Excellence in both oral and written English is a must, especially fluent in oral English
- Highly-motivated to roll up your sleeves and get things done, learn by doing
- Ability to work well under pressure, solve problems efficiently and multi-task in a deadline driven environment
- Willingness to be a self-starter with excellent anticipation and problem solving skills
- Minimum of 3 years related experience in a corporate business administration role
- 0-2 years of professional experience, ideally in a marketing role
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of associate vendor. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for associate vendor
- Identify and qualify opportunities, support sales pitch, negotiate and close sales of complex supply chain finance solutions to GCB clients (for internal use)/ Fortune 500 organizations (for external use)
- Work closely with key stakeholders including but not limited to Trade Product, Credit, Risk, Legal and Compliance
- Design, develop, and implement strategies for complex procurement requirements
- Assess supplier base
- Develop and implement contract management policies and procedures to ensure compliance with contract cost, schedule and business requirements
- Liaison with the quality team to manage the performance of partner sites
- Daily and weekly operations management, including detailed reporting and metrics preparation
- Creates ad-hoc operational reports, status updates on a need basis and contribute to the development of reporting systems
- Responsible for KPI achievement and improvement, including the measures of performance, effectiveness, employee engagement and customer satisfaction
- Set up external partner goals aligned with the operational target and closely monitor external partner accordingly
Qualifications for associate vendor
- Experience managing email marketing campaigns for professional organization
- Experience with email marketing software such as Mailchimp or Constant Contact, or ideally a marketing automation system such as Pardot, Marketo, Hubspot
- Excellent writing skills and experience writing in a business style for blogs, emails, and web copy
- Strong relationship building and influencing skills and ability to work with people at all levels, including dispute resolution
- Strong presentation and communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to present information in differing degrees of detail and form depending on the audience
- Maintain key systems information, including new item set up, supplier administration, product details and prices