Principal Vendor Manager

Docusign; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Docusign is seeking a Senior Vendor Manager to oversee vendor operations and manage delivery strategies across a range of products and services. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in vendor management and will drive both operational excellence and project implementation while ensuring customer satisfaction. This individual will report to the Director of Strategic Supplier Management, working remotely to effectively execute vendor strategy and coordinate cross-functional teams.

Benefits

Work from a designated remote work location

Commitment to equality and diversity in the workplace

Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities

Qualifications

• 8+ years’ experience in Professional Services or Consulting.
• 5+ years vendor management experience.
• 3+ years of customer-facing roles required.

Responsibilities

• Partner with delivery operations to drive operational excellence.
• Manage vendor-facing projects balancing cost and quality.
• Contribute to Vendor Quality Management Framework.

Skills

Vendor Management

Project Management

Operational Excellence

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline

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Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

The Onboarding Vendor Manager is responsible for contributing to and executing Vendor Strategy and Enablement across our suite of products and services. This includes contributing to enterprise vendor governance by representing the Onboarding Consulting space, controlling vendor costs to budget, reducing vendor-related risks, managing vendor executive escalations, and driving program improvement opportunities in partnership with Onboarding Consulting training, delivery, and workforce management functions. They will share accountability with operational delivery service metrics and operate monthly business reviews. The ideal candidate should possess experience in outsourcing services, scaled operations, and be a proven leader in the Vendor Management space.

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director, Strategic Supplier Management.

Responsibility

• Partner with delivery operations and vendor partners to drive operational excellence, responsible for a team of outsourced consulting experts who deliver proactive and reactive services to customers and partners
• Manage implementation of vendor-facing projects to balance cost, quality, impact, and risk for both Docusign and the vendor
• Meet or exceed operational and team core consulting metrics including but not limited to Customer Experience, Utilization, contractual Service Level, and Resolution
• Contribute to Vendor Quality Management Framework (QMF), standardizing, improving, and measuring how we deliver impactful, predictable, and repeatable consulting engagements to our Customers while enhancing our Consulting Expert experience for our vendor partners
• Incorporate and adopt the use of data and automation as part of the Consulting delivery processes and customer experience
• Leverage internal and external knowledge to resolve customers issues
• Partner with tools, supportability, readiness, and knowledge management disciplines to optimize and automate support processes to provide the best customer and partner support experience
• Collaborate and communicate with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, and Customer Success to ensure alignment
• Champion customer issues within the organization to build the best customer experience to define and build the way Docusign delivers services
  
  

Job Designation

Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic

• 8+ years’ experience as part of a Professional Services, Consulting, or operation delivery organization
• 5+ years vendor management experience, with a strong ability to oversee delivery activities, implementations and change
• 1+ years in the cloud and/or SaaS industry including the use of data and tools (automation) to enable customer success and operational scenarios
• 3+ years of internal or external customer facing roles
• Experience managing the performance of an outsourcing partner
• Ability to interact with and influence all levels of the business
• Proven ability to contribute to organizational vision and planning execution of projects
• Experience analyzing spend and identifying opportunities for scaled third party resource optimization
  
  

Preferred

• Strong collaboration skills which are a focal component of this role, with audiences that include executives, peers, and customer engagements
• B.A. or B.S. bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline
• Industry accepted Agile framework certification
• Industry outsourcing management certification such as COPC CX Certification or IAOP Certified Outsourcing
• Professional (COP) certification
• Multi-lingual in Docusign supported languages
  
  

Life at Docusign

Working here

Docusign is committed to building trust and making the world more agreeable for our employees, customers and the communities in which we live and work. You can count on us to listen, be honest, and try our best to do what’s right, every day. At Docusign, everything is equal.

We each have a responsibility to ensure every team member has an equal opportunity to succeed, to be heard, to exchange ideas openly, to build lasting relationships, and to do the work of their life. Best of all, you will be able to feel deep pride in the work you do, because your contribution helps us make the world better than we found it. And for that, you’ll be loved by us, our customers, and the world in which we live.

Accommodation

Docusign is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need such an accommodation, or a religious accommodation, during the application process, please contact us at [e-mail].

If you experience any issues, concerns, or technical difficulties during the application process please get in touch with our Talent organization at [e-mail] for assistance.

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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Management and Manufacturing

• Industries

  Software Development

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