Strategic Vendor Management Analyst

Christian Brothers Services; Romeoville (IL); On-site; USD 80,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

403(b)

403(b) matching

Pension

Dental insurance

Disability insurance

Employee assistance program

Flexible spending account

Health insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off

Vision insurance

Job summary

Christian Brothers Services, a not-for-profit organization serving Catholic churches and ministries, seeks a Business Analyst - Vendor Management in Romeoville, IL. This full-time, exempt role supports the Vendor Management Framework, improves governance, and partners with internal stakeholders and vendors to drive actionable insights.

Responsibilities include onboarding, lifecycle management, requirements documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in business, analytics, information systems, supply chain, operations, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate vendor onboarding and establish expectations for communication, performance measurement, governance, and ongoing reviews.
• Partner with Relationship Owners to clarify vendor roles, expected value, monitoring requirements, and responsibilities.
• Support vendor activities throughout the full lifecycle, including selection, RFIs/RFPs, contracting, onboarding, ongoing management, and offboarding.
• Document business requirements, workflows, process flows, decisions, dependencies, and follow-up actions.
• Identify process gaps, handoff issues, and opportunities to improve how work is organized, governed, and completed.
• Prepare materials for strategic and operational vendor reviews, including dashboards, surveys, spend summaries, issue logs, process documentation, and stakeholder feedback.
• Analyze vendor, operational, and project information to identify trends, outliers, root causes, and areas requiring additional action.
• Translate analysis into clear insights, practical recommendations, and leadership-ready materials.
• Maintain centralized records of vendor risks, issues, escalations, process gaps, decisions, and remediation activities.
• Coordinate with service lines, Enterprise Risk Management, IT Security, Legal, Finance, vendors, and other stakeholders to clarify issues and support timely resolution.
• Facilitate cross-functional discussions, document decisions, and translate business needs into clear action steps.
• Define and maintain vendor performance measures, reporting expectations, and business requirements.
• Partner with the Insights team and business stakeholders to develop and enhance vendor performance, spend, project, and operational reporting.
• Identify opportunities to standardize and improve vendor governance, lifecycle management, business processes, and project execution.
• Support documentation, communication, and change efforts related to framework updates and process improvements.

Skills

Business acumen

Analytical skills

Facilitation

Communication

Problem solving

Attention to detail

Documentation

Governance

Partnering

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, analytics, information systems, supply chain, operations, or a related field

Tools

Power BI

Excel

SharePoint

Visio

Job description

Christian Brothers Services, a not-for-profit organization serving Catholic churches and ministries, seeks a Business Analyst - Vendor Management in Romeoville, IL. This full-time, exempt role supports the Vendor Management Framework, improves governance, and partners with internal stakeholders and vendors to drive actionable insights.

Responsibilities include onboarding, lifecycle management, requirements documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.