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 resolution. 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 active 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 pre-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, standard 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 active 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.
• Track vendor performance against scorecards, populating data and flagging performance gaps to the Senior Manager for action.
• Maintain the Issues & Escalations log — documenting, routing, and tracking vendor issues from identification through resolution.
• Coordinate vendor reputed company documentation collection and verification: W-9s, insurance certificates, compliance certifications, and NDAs.
• Collaborate with Claims leadership and Legal to support vendor contract compliance, regulatory audit coordination, and billing guideline 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.
• Direct 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 align 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.

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive cash compensation
• A piece of the pie (in the form of equity)
• Comprehensive health plans
• Generous PTO
• Future focused 401k match
• Generous parental and caregiver leave
• Our core values are more than just a poster on the wall; they’re tangibly reflected in our work

Our goal is to reputed company reputed company aspects of working with us as easy as pie. That includes our offer process. reputed company we’ve identified a talented individual who we’d like to be a Pie-oneer , we work hard to present an reputed company and fair offer. We look at the candidate’s knowledge, skills, and experience, along with their compensation expectations and align that with our company equity processes to determine our offer ranges.

Each year Pie reviews company performance and may grant discretionary bonuses to eligible team members.

Location Information

Unless otherwise specified, this role is remote. Remote team members must live and work in the United States (territories excluded) and have access to reliable, high-speed internet.

Additional Information

reputed company is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, reputed company, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, age, disability, national or ethnic reputed company, military service status, citizenship, or other protected characteristic.

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