Senior Business Manager – Unattended Retail
C.A. Ferolie
Senior IT Vendor Manager – Supplier Management Office
Abbott
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Chicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $127,300 - $254,700 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Cloud
About the role
- Serve as the primary point of contact for strategic IT vendors, fostering long-term partnerships.
- Lead regular business reviews to assess vendor performance, resolve issues, and identify improvement opportunities.
- Lead financial forecasting, budgeting, and cost optimization initiatives related to vendor engagements.
- Analyze spend data to identify savings opportunities, rationalize vendor portfolios, and improve ROI.
- Support invoice validation, dispute resolution, and vendor payment processes in collaboration with finance and procurement.
- Support contract negotiations, ensuring alignment with IT strategy and licensing best practices.
Requirements
- Overall, 10-15 years of experience including 7+ years in Vendor Management.
- Proven track record managing large-scale IT vendor portfolios and complex contract negotiations.
- Strong understanding of IT services, software licensing, cloud agreements, and outsourcing models.
- Exposure to legal processes/principles, pricing constructs and commercial best practices - confidentiality, data security and privacy.
- Multi-faceted approach to relationship management to include a broad range of communication and problem-solving skills (accommodation, flexibility, support, understanding and more).
Benefits
- Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
- Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
- An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
vendor managementfinancial forecastingbudgetingcost optimizationdata analysiscontract negotiationinvoice validationdispute resolutionIT servicessoftware licensing
Soft skills
relationship managementcommunicationproblem-solvingflexibilitysupportunderstanding
