Sr. Vendor Manager

The Senior Vendor Manager is responsible for the strategic and commercial management of logistics vendors supporting the Company's U.S. operations. This position owns key vendor relationships, commercial negotiations, provider selection and onboarding, performance management, and logistics cost optimization. The role conducts financial and operational analysis to identify opportunities that improve profitability, service performance, and scalability while leading vendor negotiations, KPI governance, and business reviews.

The Senior Vendor Manager partners cross-functionally with Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, and other stakeholders to develop scalable logistics solutions supporting product launches, seasonal demand, market expansion, and broader business objectives.

• Develop and execute vendor management strategies that support revenue, profitability, service, and operational objectives.
• Conduct financial and operational analyses of business opportunities and vendor arrangements to identify opportunities to improve cost, service, and overall business performance.
• Lead annual and ongoing negotiations with assigned logistics vendors regarding pricing, commercial terms, service requirements, and performance expectations.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for vendor selection, onboarding, relationship management, escalations, negotiations, and performance improvement.
• Evaluate prospective logistics providers based on pricing, capabilities, capacity, geographic coverage, technology, service performance, scalability, and business requirements.
• Negotiate freight rates, service agreements, service-level agreements, and other commercial terms with logistics providers.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of internal and external variables affecting assigned vendors and logistics operations, including business forecasts, shipment volumes, transportation markets, capacity, costs, and service requirements.
• Own forecasting, analysis, performance reporting, and business reviews related to assigned vendor relationships.
• Establish, monitor, and evaluate vendor KPIs, including on-time performance, claims rates, cost per shipment, service failures, and other established measures.
• Lead quarterly business reviews and recurring performance meetings with key vendors.
• Identify vendor performance deficiencies and establish corrective action plans, escalation strategies, and performance-improvement requirements.
• Analyze freight spend, vendor pricing, shipment profiles, and other cost drivers to identify opportunities to reduce cost per unit without compromising established service levels.
• Develop business cases and recommendations for vendor changes, contract modifications, transportation optimization, and cost-saving opportunities.
• Monitor logistics industry conditions, business trends, competitive developments, capacity constraints, and other external factors that may affect vendor strategy or operational performance.
• Collaborate with Finance on freight accruals, invoice approvals, spend analysis, budget forecasting, and variance analysis.
• Develop scalable vendor and logistics strategies to support new product launches, seasonal volume increases, market expansion, and changing business requirements.
• Coordinate across Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Sales, and other business functions to ensure vendor capabilities and service requirements align with organizational needs.
• Maintain vendor performance documentation, agreements, scorecards, financial analyses, and other records necessary to support effective vendor governance.
• Ensure assigned vendors comply with applicable contractual requirements, SLAs, SOPs, safety standards, and operational requirements.
• Identify vendor-related…