Supplier Relationship Manager

Paychex; Allentown (Lehigh County); On-site; USD 61,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Paychex is seeking a Supplier Relationship Manager in Allentown, PA to establish and maintain strategic supplier relationships and monitor performance across the supply chain. You will partner with internal teams to manage risk and drive supplier programs, leveraging bid processes to optimize cost, quality, and delivery.

The role requires a Bachelor's degree and 5 years of related experience, with strong negotiation and financial analysis skills to influence stakeholders and improve performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, or Procurement preferred.
• 5 years of experience in a related field.
• Excellent collaboration and team-building skills.
• Strong verbal communication and listening skills.
• Ability to influence internal and external constituents.
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial data; effective negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Establishes strong, collaborative relationships with stakeholders to develop and optimize supplier management processes.
• Leads supplier monitoring plans with cross-functional teams, including business reviews and scorecarding.
• Identifies industry trends and risks, presenting resolutions and improvement opportunities.
• Mitigates supply chain risk through supplier qualification and development.
• Develops and communicates supplier performance metrics and scorecard results.
• Prepares and executes bid packages (RFI, RFP, RFQ) to meet criteria.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Skills

Supplier management

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Financial data analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement

Job description

Overview

The Supplier Relationship Manager is responsible for establishing and managing relationships with qualified suppliers and monitoring supplier performance. Partners with internal cross-functional teams to establish and maintain relationships with suppliers to ensure Paychex operates in a strategic and goal-oriented manner. Responsible for the oversight, management, and reporting of supply chain risk activities. Works with key internal stockholders to develop and execute risk mitigation strategies throughout the supply chain.

Responsibilities

• Establishes strong, collaborative relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to strategically develop, implement and optimize supplier management processes, tools, and policies to achieve performance objectives and mitigate risk.
• Determines and leads supplier ongoing monitoring plan with cross-functional teams with focus on business reviews, issue management reviews, performance score carding, contract management reviews, risk management reviews, etc.
• Identifies and tracks industry trends relating to supplier programs, financial and/or compliance risks, program issues that are impacting supplier services from achieving performance goals and present resolution and improvement opportunities.
• Mitigates supply chain risk through supplier qualification, development, and alternatives.
• Develops, prepares and communicates supplier performance metrics, evaluation criteria, and scorecard results.
• Prepares and executes bid packages utilizing Request for Information ("RFI"), Request for Proposal ("RFP"), Request for Quote ("RFQ"), etc. to meet criteria of pricing, quality, quantity, availability, and delivery dates.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Supply Chain, Procurement - Preferred
• 5 years of experience in Related field.
• Excellent collaboration and team building skills.
• Strong verbal communication and listening skills.
• Ability to influence internal and/or external constituents.
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial data.Effective negotiation skills.

Compensation

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share that the starting base pay range for this position is $60, 893.00-$95,689.32 annually-. Please keep in mind that this range is the base pay only and does not consider other components that make up the total rewards package for the position. If you are hired at Paychex, your overall compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience which may result in total compensation outside of this range.