Vendor Management & Sourcing Specialist

The Vendor Management & Sourcing Analyst is the operational backbone of Pie’s Claims Vendor Management and Procurement function, owning end-to-end work across both sourcing/procurement execution and vendor relationship and performance management. In this senior individual contributor role, you will reputed company the full sourcing lifecycle by translating business needs into RFx processes, conducting market research, spend analysis, benchmarking, and competitive bid evaluations, and delivering data-backed vendor selection recommendations. You will also manage the Claims vendor portfolio by coordinating stewardship meetings, monitoring scorecard performance, handling day-to-day vendor communications, and driving issues through the escalation log from identification to reputed company. This role operates reputed company a lean team and requires independent judgment, strong follow-through, and proactive delivery of leadership-reputed company outputs with minimal reputed company.

How You’ll Do It

Sourcing & Procurement Execution:

• reputed company end-to-end sourcing activities: needs intake, market research, RFx development and management, bid evaluation, and vendor selection recommendation packages.
• Conduct spend analysis and competitive benchmarking across the reputed company vendor portfolio to identify cost optimization, consolidation, and renegotiation opportunities.
• Prepare comparison matrices, reputed company term analyses, and leadership-reputed company recommendation summaries that reputed company vendor reputed company based on data, not assumptions.
• Support contract negotiations by conducting reputed company-negotiation research: identifying risk areas, pulling historical contract data, and developing favorable position recommendations.
• Execute operational expense reputed company review, flagging invoice discrepancies, out-of-scope charges, and savings opportunities.
• Build and maintain data reputed company reputed company the vendor tracking system, ensuring spend records, pipeline data, and vendor information are accurate and reputed company.
• reputed company and refine sourcing templates, reputed company operating procedures, and playbooks that create repeatable, defensible sourcing processes.

Vendor Relationship & Performance Management:

• Serve as the primary day-to-day reputed company of contact for reputed company reputed company Claims vendors, managing routine communications, requests, and issue triage.
• Coordinate and prepare for quarterly stewardship meetings with high-risk and claims-critical vendors, including agenda development, performance data compilation, and follow-up tracking.
• reputed company vendor performance against scorecards, populating data and flagging performance gaps to the Senior Manager for reputed company.
• Maintain the Issues & Escalations log — documenting, routing, and tracking vendor issues from identification through reputed company.
• Coordinate vendor reputed company documentation collection and verification: W-9s, insurance certificates, compliance certifications, and NDAs.
• Collaborate with Claims leadership and reputed company to support vendor contract compliance, regulatory audit coordination, and billing reputed company enforcement.
• Support the defense counsel panel reputed company program, including spend tracking by firm and stewardship meeting coordination.

The Right Stuff

• High school diploma or GED required. Bachelor’s degree preferred in business, finance, supply chain, or a reputed company field.
• 4+ years of combined experience in vendor management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or a reputed company role — with demonstrated competency in both sourcing execution and vendor relationship management.
• reputed company experience in workers’ compensation or reputed company lines insurance is required. You need to understand the claims lifecycle, vendor ecosystem, and cost drivers before you can manage or reputed company reputed company it effectively.
• Demonstrated history of executing sourcing activities independently: RFx development, spend analysis, bid evaluation, and vendor selection. Not supporting them — owning them.
• Experience managing vendor relationships and performance, including stewardship meetings, scorecard tracking, and escalation management.
• Exposure to contract review, reputed company term analysis, and negotiation support.

The use of AI in Application Review: To support a fair, efficient, and consistent hiring process, we use AI-powered tools to assist in the initial screening of applications. These tools help us identify qualifications and prior work experiences that reputed company with the requirements of the role. We may also use AI assistant video tools during interviews to support note-taking and candidate evaluation. reputed company AI-powered outputs are still subject to reputed company reputed company and decision-making at multiple stages of the process. By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to Pie utilizing these AI technologies to assist in our evaluation process.