VENDOR ANALYST

What you’ll do Procurement Process Management.
Submitting requests for Incremental/New, Renewals, Change Requests, Backfills Initiate vendor engagement assessments via the Procurement tool Working with vendors and business units to arrange interviews with candidates Contribute to quarterly capacity reviews with partners Communicate readiness and timelines to partners where appropriate.
Identify areas for Continuous Improvement opportunities in defining the partner landscape Ensure timely on-boarding of contingent workers Contingent worker lifecycle management support to business functions Onboarding support to ensure contingent workers are productive on Day #1 Creating PSOWs Track and maintain contractual agreements/ SOWs to ensure timely reviews/ renewals Drive compliance on CW tenure and contract type alignment Alignment to relevant Processes & Policies Contribute to sourcing new CX vendors in alignment with preferred suppliers' strategy Track variables that drive the financials (case volumes, headcounts, revenues, etc) Raise POs inappropriate tools, and follow up on timely approvals Manage accruals for all owned POs Reconciliation and approval of monthly invoices Close POs in the system once accrued for and fully invoiced Runs the design and implementation of business processes, ensuring that business initiatives align with strategy.
For big data analytics, the data will not only be partner, and financial data, but also network data.
Who You'll Work With Customer Experience (CX) provides flexible and innovative ways to help meet customer needs while improving profitability for delivery teams.
CX is a highly technical global resources that support customer engagements in all theaters acting as a detailed delivery partner to the end customers.
Vendor strategy management office provides critical partner insights to several Business Entities in Services.
The team has specialized domains in 5 broad areas that function seamlessly to enable end-to-end vendor management benefits to CX.
Specialized Domains are.
Process and Systems Data Governance/Stewardship Compliance & Risk Vendor strategy & Management Value for Money Who you are BE or BE + Masters (MS or MBA); Ability to work multi-functionally; Very strong in procurement /sourcing/vendor management domains Good in communication (ability to articulate analysis and present) Desired Skills Strong in both, operational and financial data analysis Experience in statistical models, forecasting and predictive models Ability to work on multiple assignments in parallel and keep up with deadlines and quality Advocate & influence business team to outsource work & engage partners suitably Skill to extract intelligence from data, derive business insights and present to business Why Cisco? #WeAreCisco.
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