Career Opportunities: Vendor Relationship Specialist (24622) Requisition ID 24622 - Posted 10/04/2024 - CareOregon - Full Time - Permanent - Portland - Multi Location (9) Job Description Print Preview Candidates hired for remote positions must reside in Oregon, Washington, Utah, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, Montana, or Wisconsin. Job Title Vendor Relationship Specialist Department Clinical Operations Exemption Status Exempt Requisition # 24622 Direct Reports N/A Manager Title Clinical Operations Director Pay and Benefits Estimated hiring range $ 64,130 - $78,390 /year, 5% bonus target, full benefits. Posting Notes This role is fully remote but must reside in one of the listed 9 states. Job Summary The Vendor Relationship Specialist serves as a liaison between CareOregon and the vendors contracted to provide services on behalf of CareOregon or any of its lines of business. In coordination with the CareOregon contracting departments (Procurement, Provider, and Legal Affairs), this position helps ascertain program needs, negotiates scopes of work, collaborates with contracting departments for contract development, and maintains vendor contracts for assigned department(s). Responsibilities include building effective relationships with vendors and internal departments with attention to ongoing service needs, monitoring vendor performance, helping to ensure quality control and compliance, and recommending improved vendor and contract-related administrative processes. Essential Responsibilities * Acts as the primary program liaison with vendor for services. * Researches, gathers, and develops program service requirements (scope of work), including any regulatory or funding requirements, for the procurement and/or contracting processes. * Acts as the primary program liaison with contracting departments for the procurement and/or contracting process; provides growing program knowledge to help guide vendor agreements. * Ensures vendor contract administration and services are in compliance with CareOregon policy and applicable state and federal rules and regulations; provides input for internal legal and compliance teams for compliance review and tracking. * Build and maintain effective relationships with the vendors, internal teams, and external partners (e.g., vendors and/or providers) for current or future integration; closely monitor changing internal service needs and effectively communicate them to ensure needs are met. * Develops periodic check-in schedule with vendors to ensure compliance with the contract; help resolve issues and escalate matters as needed to ensure the services are performed in the best interest of CareOregon. * Monitors the life-cycle of a contract that includes such items as duration of the contract, staying within the authorized compensation/fee terms, reporting, and timely amendments or renewal of contracts. * Reviews vendor contract invoices for completeness and accuracy in coordination with the Accounts Payable team and other departments as needed. * For exempt, direct, and informal procurement levels, identifies and grows in securing proposals from potential vendors to meet and achieve program needs and goals; assesses and advises business leaders in selection. * Performs routine cost/benefit financial analysis to assist with the vetting process. * Identifies metrics and partners with applicable team(s) to build tools and reports to assess vendor performance; provide analyses to leadership to inform... For full info follow application link. We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, ve teran status, and other protected characteristics. The EEO is the Law poster is available here.
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Vendor Relationship Specialist