Position: Vendor manager
Company: Partner-way
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

We are an early-stage startup that helps companies to manage SaaS applications and subscriptions. Our team needs an experienced Vendor Manager, who has a startup personality and is flexible, proactive, and creative.

**Required skills:**
● 2+ years of proven experience working as a vendor manager.
● Upper-Intermediate English is a must, we are happy if you are Advanced or Fluent instead :)
● Strong negotiation, management, and decision-making skills.
● Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills.
● Effective written and verbal communication skills.

**Responsibilities:**
● Negotiate the prices with different vendors for our customers.
● Be creative, we have different deals and programs from vendors and you need to come up with ideas on how we can reduce the costs for customers.
● Manage and add new vendors to our database with information about them and their conditions.
● Develop and sustain long-standing relationships with company-approved vendors.
● Conduct research on available vendors to determine which vendors offer the best pricing and product quality.
● Conducting interviews with new vendors and informing approved vendors of their responsibilities and obligations.
● Establishing standards by which to assess the performance of approved vendors.
● Evaluating current vendor management programs and identifying ways to improve them.

**We offer:**
● Quick professional growth with the startup
● Interesting and challenging projects
● Opportunity to work with the global market: Ukraine, US, EU, and Australian markets
● Open environment and support that facilitates professional freedom and growth
● Mature and efficient processes