Cloud Vendor Management Specialist
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Cloud vendor management specialist overseeing technology suppliers, contracts, renewals, risk, and FinOps. Supporting Revvity’s healthcare-science solutions through vendor optimization and cross-functional governance.
Responsibilities:
- Manage new vendor onboarding from initial request through approval, including supplier registration, document exchange, internal coordination, and procurement workflows
- Ensure vendors meet information security, privacy, legal, financial, insurance, compliance, business continuity, and operational-readiness requirements
- Coordinate collection and review of contracts, statements of work, insurance certificates, security questionnaires, compliance attestations, financial information, and data-processing terms
- Maintain vendor profiles, ownership records, risk classifications, documentation, approval status, and renewal dates
- Coordinate evaluations for data center hardware, infrastructure platforms, cloud services, cybersecurity solutions, software, telecommunications, support services, and managed service providers
- Develop evaluation criteria and support RFI/RFP processes, demonstrations, proofs of concept, reference checks, and commercial evaluations
- Prepare comparative analyses and vendor recommendations covering strengths, weaknesses, risks, costs, and business alignment
- Manage renewal calendars, contract reviews, renewal planning, negotiations, approvals, and service continuity
- Analyze contracts, pricing, service levels, licensing, renewal clauses, termination rights, spend, consumption, benchmarks, and alternatives
- Build vendor relationships and lead operational reviews, quarterly business reviews, renewal discussions, and executive engagements
- Maintain vendor scorecards and monitor service-level performance, delivery quality, responsiveness, support effectiveness, risk, and contractual compliance
- Coordinate escalations involving service failures, incidents, delayed deliverables, commercial disputes, and operational risks
- Partner with Finance, FinOps, Procurement, and technology owners on vendor financial management and technology-service optimization
- Analyze spend, usage, license allocation, maintenance costs, commitments, and pricing trends to identify savings and cost avoidance
- Support budgeting, forecasting, accruals, purchase-order planning, and variance analysis
- Develop total-cost-of-ownership, ROI, unit-cost, and multi-year financial analyses
- Recommend service right-sizing, supplier consolidation, license optimization, commitment renegotiation, and improved discount structures
- Coordinate vendors and internal technical, procurement, finance, legal, security, compliance, and business teams
- Develop dashboards and reports for spend, savings, renewals, performance, risk, contract status, and action-item completion
- Support audits, third-party risk assessments, compliance reviews, strategic sourcing, infrastructure modernization, and vendor offboarding
- Participate in local and global cross-functional teams and perform related procurement, vendor-management, contract-administration, and financial-analysis activities
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, supply chain management, information technology, economics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
- 4+ years of experience in vendor management, vendor procurement, supplier management, contract administration, technology operations, strategic sourcing, or a related discipline
- Experience managing vendors providing data center infrastructure, cloud services, cybersecurity products, enterprise software, telecommunications, hardware maintenance, professional services, or managed services
- Experience with vendor onboarding, due diligence, document exchange, supplier approvals, contract renewals, and ongoing relationship management
- Ability to review commercial contracts, licensing structures, statements of work, service-level commitments, pricing schedules, renewal provisions, and vendor proposals
- Experience comparing vendor proposals and renewal pricing against prior-year agreements, historical utilization, existing contracts, market alternatives, and business requirements
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including spend analysis, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, total cost of ownership, return on investment, and cost-optimization assessments
- Ability to organize and lead vendor meetings involving technical teams, business owners, procurement, finance, legal, and vendor executives
- Excellent communication, negotiation, stakeholder-management, organizational, and documentation skills
- Ability to manage multiple vendor engagements, deadlines, approvals, renewals, and escalations while maintaining confidentiality and attention to detail
- Advanced proficiency with spreadsheets, presentations, reporting tools, databases, and procurement or contract-management systems
- Preferred: Experience with NetSuite or a comparable procurement, ERP, vendor-risk, or contract-lifecycle platform
- Preferred: Experience supporting hybrid infrastructure, on-premises data centers, VMware environments, public cloud platforms, cybersecurity operations, or enterprise technology modernization
- Preferred: Knowledge of FinOps principles, software asset management, license optimization, third-party risk management, and technology procurement best practices
- Preferred: Experience developing vendor scorecards, executive business reviews, sourcing recommendations, and multi-year commercial models; knowledge of a visualization tool such as QuickSight is an added advantage
- Preferred: Relevant certification such as FinOps Certified Practitioner, CPSM, CSCP, PMP, ITIL Foundation, or a comparable procurement, finance, or technology credential
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