Vendor Management Specialist

An exciting career awaits you. At MPC, we’re committed to being a great place to work – one that welcomes new ideas, encourages diverse perspectives, develops our people, and fosters a collaborative team environment.

This position will assist in managing relationships with top-tier strategic IT vendors, including contract negotiations, performance, risk, and $260MM spend. The resource will own and understand contractual, commercial, and operational working relationships with vendors to ensure effective delivery of committed products, services, and solutions. It works with the Senior Vendor Management Specialist and interacts directly with IT leadership. The role will assist in defining and overseeing the management of policy and process associated with IT vendor management functions, collaborating with business units and stakeholders responsible for adherence to or execution of policy and process.

• Collaborates with IT executive leadership to build and maintain a Vendor Management program including development of a program governance model.
• Segments and rationalizes the vendor portfolio to focus on the most strategically important vendor relationships/engagements.
• Coordinates with Supply Chain Commercial Advisors and Contract Leads to conduct Request for Proposal (RFP) for strategic vendors and ensures negotiated agreements capture desired deliverables and Service Level Agreements (SLA).
• Serves as the leadership-level point of contact between strategic vendors and internal customers consuming vendor services and solutions.
• Oversees the development of vendor performance evaluation tools based on stakeholder needs, and the creation of scorecards and dashboards that accurately present this data.
• Manages the ongoing collection and communication of reporting and data on strategic vendor contracts, performance, spend, risk and relationships to key stakeholders and vendors.
• Partners with IT to maintain a profile of vendor’s market space products, services and roadmap.
• Serves as internal consultant of vendor market space, understands IT goals and strategies related to vendor, and ensures sourcing strategies align with vendor/product lifecycle.
• Delivers performance feedback to vendor organizations, serves as point of contact for escalation, and oversees action plans and corrective measures arising from the performance management process and drives issues to resolution.
• Partners with cross-functional business partners to track and report on vendor financial viability, business continuity, and corporate and regulatory compliance.
• Provides oversight to IT vendor audits where required and partners with IT Asset Management to perform true-up/reconciliation activities for strategic vendors.
• Works with Strategic IT partners to maximize innovation and investments into MPC's environment.
• Partners with strategic vendors and internal stakeholders to assess contract leakage, ensuring suppliers adhere to agreed terms and fully deliver on contractual obligations.

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Six (6) or more years of Supply Chain or business relevant experience.
• Approximately 25% travel. Travel time could fluctuate depending on internal customer requirements and projects.

Location:

San Antonio, Texas. Additional locations:
Findlay, Ohio.

Marathon Petroleum offers a total rewards program which includes, but is not limited to, access to health, vision, and dental insurance, paid time off, 401k matching program, paid parental leave, and educational reimbursement. Detailed benefit information is available at  The hired candidate will also be eligible for a discretionary company-sponsored annual bonus program.

Marathon Petroleum Company LP is an Equal Opportunity Employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, reproductive health decision‑making, age, mental or physical disability, medical condition or AIDS/HIV status, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, military, veteran status, marital status, citizenship or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

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