Associate Vendor Manager

_OVERVIEW:_

The Associate Vendor Manager is responsible for guiding vendors through our recruitment and certification program, including documents signature and collection, testing, rate negotiation and systems maintenance.

_DESCRIPTION:_

• Provide on-the-job support to the Vendor Management team
• Be knowledgeable of the needs and requirements of the internal Production departments
• Become familiar with translation directories and sourcing tools
• Help with proactively recruiting new resources for different types of services, to expand the company’s database of external vendors
• Test recruited vendors according to specialized skill-sets, following the company’s testing and onboarding documented process and using the required platforms
• Negotiate preferred rates with onboarded vendors according to company, department or project needs
• Promote newly recruited and tested vendors to the appropriate Production teams for use on live projects and to Internal Linguists’ teams for training opportunities
• Assist Production and Sales teams on a daily basis with vendor onboarding and certification-related issues and questions
• Establish and maintain excellent relationships with contract vendors, Production staff and internal teams globally
• Help vendors with any issues or questions they may have, as well as ensure good communication between external collaborators and internal employees
• Assist with administration tasks as required by the team
• Discuss with the direct manager to find a viable means of making processes more efficient
• Proactively seek additional tasks and duties to benefit TransPerfect as a whole
• Research and understand all industries that TransPerfect markets to, including industry leaders, current events and any other pertinent data
• Complete any other tasks that are deemed appropriate for the role and assigned by the manager/supervisor