
Senior Manager, Global Delivery Vendor Management
Cox Enterprises
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Raleigh • North Carolina • United States
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Salary
💰 $134,900 - $224,900 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Own global vendor management across key delivery partners in Jordan, Portugal, the Philippines, and future geographies
- Drive quarterly business reviews, performance scorecards, corrective action plans, and contractual compliance
- Negotiate commercial terms, rate cards, staffing models, and cost structures to ensure competitive pricing and predictable spend
- Partner with finance to maintain a unified vendor KPI framework that measures cost per FTE, utilization, SLA adherence, quality, staffing velocity, and productivity
- Ensure vendors meet contract obligations, security requirements, background screening standards, and audits
- Partner with Procurement, Legal, and Finance to govern renewals, contracts, expansions, and commercial discipline
- Manage daily and weekly operational rhythms with vendors including capacity planning, forecasting, productivity reporting, and SLA tracking
- Monitor vendor based delivery risks, surface issues early, and drive mitigation plans with internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure accurate headcount tracking, shift models, coverage windows, and skill mix across all regions
- Support onboarding, offboarding, and role calibration between RapidScale and vendor teams to maintain a consistent customer experience
- Build delivery governance dashboards that provide transparency into cost, staffing, performance, and key trends
- Improve vendor staffing speed, quality, and ramp effectiveness through analytics, feedback loops, and standardized workflows
- Partner with internal service owners to confirm role definitions, skill expectations, training requirements, and capacity needs
- Identify performance gaps and drive remediation across productivity, quality, ticket handling, engineering throughput, and customer experience
- Evaluate new partners, geographies, or delivery models when gaps or scaling opportunities are identified
- Work closely with Service Delivery, Support, Engineering, HR, and Finance to coordinate vendor activities and ensure alignment to operational needs
- Provide reporting on vendor performance, risk, and cost using simple dashboards and measurable insights
- Build relationships with vendor leadership teams and ensure accountability across all levels
- Represent Global Delivery in contract discussions, operational reviews, and internal audits
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 8 years’ experience
- 3+ years’ experience in management or leadership role
- Experience spanning global service delivery, vendor management, HR operations, transformation, or operations strategy, ideally within a Managed Services, Cloud, or Professional Services environment
- Experience managing offshore and nearshore partners across multiple regions and functional service lines
- Experience spans rate card negotiation, cost optimization, and performance-based contract management, along with developing and managing vendor KPI frameworks, governance scorecards, and executive reporting
Benefits
- flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties
- seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members
- additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave
- time off to vote
- jury duty leave
- volunteer time off
- military leave
- parental leave
- health care insurance (medical, dental, vision)
- retirement planning (401(k))
- paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO)
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
vendor managementcontractual complianceperformance scorecardscost optimizationKPI frameworkscapacity planningforecastinganalyticsreportingperformance-based contract management
Soft Skills
negotiationleadershiprelationship buildingproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationaccountabilitystrategic thinkingadaptabilitystakeholder management