Director, Vendor Management

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💵 $134.6k - $249k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🛒 Procurement

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Centene Corporation

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1984

🛡️ Insurance

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

Insurance • Consulting • Healthcare

Centene Corporation is a leading provider of government-sponsored healthcare services, specializing in delivering affordable and high-quality healthcare solutions. For over 40 years, Centene has focused on transforming the health of communities by expanding access to Medicaid, Medicare, and Health Insurance Marketplace services, as well as serving military communities through the TRICARE program. As the largest Medicaid managed care organization and a key participant in the Marketplace, Centene emphasizes localized healthcare delivery combined with strong partnerships with nonprofit organizations to meet the unique needs of its members. Centene is also committed to corporate sustainability and social responsibility, prioritizing environmental stewardship and ethical governance to enhance the well-being of the communities it serves.

📋 Description

• Manage strategic vendor partnerships and enterprise initiatives, including vendor evaluation, contracting, implementation, governance, and performance oversight • Evaluate and support strategic enterprise vendor opportunities • Develop business cases • Coordinate RFI/RFP activities • Support vendor selection, contract development, negotiations, and implementations • Lead stakeholder and oversight meetings with vendors, business leaders, and cross-functional stakeholders • Provide executive-level reporting and recommendations related to vendor performance, business opportunities, and strategic initiatives • Facilitate collaboration between vendors and Clinical, Operations, Finance, Compliance, Procurement, Legal, and Technology teams • Accumulate, monitor, and report on vendor performance metrics to business unit management • Communicate expectations and vendor performance against established metrics to vendors • Develop, implement, and follow up on annual vendor goals and targets • Initiate and complete vendor performance improvement plans and corrective action plans • Verify sustained vendor performance improvements and outcomes through audits • Conduct oversight meetings with vendors, internal partners, and other stakeholders • Oversee health plan participation in annual delegation audits • Follow through on audit deficiencies to ensure corrective actions are implemented

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business or related field • 7+ years of vendor management experience • Experience including government programs health care or related experience in multiple areas of operations • Proficient with MS-Project or other project management software • Proficient with MS-Office applications • Project management, administration or operations in the Healthcare industry preferred • Experience in training/education and use of statistical analysis preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• competitive pay • health insurance • 401K and stock purchase plans • tuition reimbursement • paid time off plus holidays • a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules • additional forms of incentives may be included in total compensation

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