Senior Vendor Manager, Technology Vendor Management - HYBRID (Seattle, WA)
$166,000–$258,000 year
HybridSeattle, Washington, United States
Job Summary
Lead the strategic direction of a meaningful slice of the Nordstrom Technology vendor portfolio, developing a point of view on each significant vendor and market shifts. Partner with Sourcing, Legal, Finance, Risk, and Technology leadership to translate vendor strategy into commercial outcomes that protect Nordstrom and create leverage. Drive vendor performance and accountability conversations, analyzing root causes when relationships fall off track to develop resolutions. Surface opportunities to reduce cost, consolidate footprint, mitigate risk, and improve work execution. Bring decision-ready recommendations to senior leaders, presenting options, trade-offs, and suggested paths forward. Mentor colleagues across TVMO and contribute to the function's evolution.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years directly managing enterprise technology vendor relationships end-to-end
- owning relationship health, performance, and strategy at an executive level
- Strong structured problem solving
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Commercial fluency in enterprise technology
- Real analytical depth
- comfortable with data
- willing to build your own models when the situation calls for it
- use quantitative work to sharpen recommendations
- genuine comfort with ambiguity and change
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