Cox Enterprises

Senior Manager, Global Delivery Vendor Management

Cox Enterprises

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: RaleighNorth CarolinaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $134,900 - $224,900 per year

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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

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Hard Skills & Tools
vendor managementcontractual complianceperformance scorecardscost optimizationKPI frameworkscapacity planningforecastinganalyticsreportingperformance-based contract management
Soft Skills
negotiationleadershiprelationship buildingproblem solvingcommunicationcollaborationaccountabilitystrategic thinkingadaptabilitystakeholder management