Vendor Management Associate

Job description / Role

- Conduct market research to source new vendors and finalize their registration and qualification.
- Assist in monitoring vendor master data management including creating, updating and deleting data.
- Ensure list of vendors is updated on a continuous basis to reflect existing vendors and potential pipeline.
- Support with the vendor management process including vendor pre-qualification, evaluation, development, escalation.
- Establish the best practices and performance indicators such as quality, delivery and collaboration.
- Coordinate with buyers and end-users to evaluate vendor performance and highlight underperforming vendors to take remedial actions.
- Develop regular reports on the department’s progress and outputs to be shared with the Vendor Management
- Manager to ensure work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.
- Organize and drive adoption of the SAP Business Network by suppliers (e.g., communication, supplier summits) based on standard Ariba functionality.
- Create and maintain information material for suppliers based on standard SAP material
- Organize and operate a 'help desk' for suppliers for general and process issues pertaining to onboarding, PO, ASN, SES and invoice transactions (technical issues with SBN to be covered by SAP).
- Resolve supplier issues based on FAQs and in collaboration with Finance, Procurement and IT
- Develop and maintain supplier FAQs documentation
- Investigate and develop requirements for automation options (e.g., Chatbot)
- Develop process optimization action based on experienced supplier issues
- Report on supplier adoption, transactional traffic, issues and issue resolution
- Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures and ensure work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner.

- Minimum of 2-5 years of relevant experience in vendor management and vendor sourcing.
- Knowledge of Supply Chain Management, Procurement systems and software.
- Experience in using SAP and Ariba Systems.
- Knowledge of vendor management regulations and standards.

About the Company

Saudi Networkers Services, incorporated in 2001 with an aim to provide the world class business and consulting services through a combination of market insight, technical excellence and unrivalled agile methodology.

Our success stems from building strong relationships and trusted partners, which enabled us delivering exceptional services to public sector, as well as some world's leading organizations, in Telecommunication, Information Technology, Cyber Security, Banking, Energy, Utilities and various other industry arenas.

We collaborate closely, ideate that how the work gets done, while working alongside businesses to collaborate on growth and applying breakthrough innovations, that drive exponential impact, managed by teams specialized in their assigned industry sectors.