Strategic Supplier Relationship Manager ; Mid-level - Real Estate

Position: Strategic Supplier Relationship Manager I (Mid-level) - Real Estate
Why USAA?

At USAA, our mission is to empower our members to achieve financial security through highly competitive products, exceptional service and trusted advice. We seek to be the #1 choice for the military community and their families.

Embrace a fulfilling career at USAA, where our core values - honesty, integrity, loyalty and service - define how we treat each other and our members. Be part of what truly makes us special and impactful.

We are proud to support active-duty military spouses. USAA roles may offer remote or hybrid flexibility for active-duty military spouses consistent with applicable policy and business needs.

The Opportunity

As a dedicated Strategic Supplier Relationship Manager I, you will provide primary strategic and operational relationship management and oversight between USAA and assigned third party suppliers. Proactively seek opportunities to continuously build rapport and partnership with third parties. Provide guidance and enforce the standardization of supplier strategies, policies, procedures, guidelines, and reporting. Engage regularly with clients, client relationship management, and others to ensure alignment of goals between USAA and the supplier, to understand and convey client needs to suppliers while understanding and conveying capabilities back to the client and client relationship managers.

Work closely with CoSA Supplier Governance (CSG) to understand measurable performance of the supplier and provide guidance in taking appropriate-level corrective action.

We offer a flexible work environment that requires an individual to be in the office 4 days per week. This position can be based in one of the following locations:
San Antonio, TX, Tampa, FL or Phoenix, AZ.

Relocation assistance is not available for this position.

What you'll do:

* Accountable for communicating and driving the vision and strategy effectively to key stakeholders and Bank agile team members. Ensures delivery of quality product and member experience solutions through collaboration with stakeholders to determine business needs.

* Responsible for working closely with the Team-of-Teams Lead to assist in clarifying and driving alignment on the business strategy, goals, and objectives. Translates this understanding into a clear vision for the Bank agile team to inform the creation and prioritization of the Bank agile team's backlog of work.

* Partners with Team-of-Teams Lead to define and clearly communicate acceptance criteria for output based on business requirements and customer needs.

* Anticipates and solves complex issues using a data-driven approach to decision making including allocating funds and developing and tracking Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) that drive Bank product success. Delivers against Bank agile team level OKRs.

* Acts as 'voice of the end-user'.

* Proactively seeks customer feedback to learn and better understand their needs and requirements to ensure end user value is delivered to the marketplace.

* Owns Bank agile team backlog (grooming, prioritization, and refinement).

* Responsible for maintaining a groomed backlog of user stories; works with the Agile Bank agile team to estimate story size and complexity.

* Optimizes the flow of value through the multi-Bank agile team Agile environment and progresses towards objectives, goals, and commitments, while removing impediments, resolving conflicts, and managing risks and issues.

* Begins to take a strategic view and think proactively about the right way to meet objectives.

* Acts in service of the Bank agile team's needs and goals; offer feedback on work-in-progress, clarifies requirements, anticipates and removes roadblocks or impediments that may prevent the Bank agile team from progressing on objectives and answers questions.

* Looks for opportunities for continuous Bank agile team and process improvement. Makes recommendations to leadership.

* May lead functional Bank agile teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity.

* Ensures risks associated with business activities are effectively identified, measured, monitored, and controlled in accordance with risk and compliance policies and procedures.

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