Technology Vendor Management Specialist - Montréal, Canada - SSENSE

SSENSE
SSENSE
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Montréal, Canada

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Company Description

SSENSE (pronounced [es-uhns]) is a global technology platform operating at the intersection of culture, community, and commerce.

Headquartered in Montreal, it features a mix of established and emerging luxury brands across womenswear, menswear, kidswear, and Everything Else.


SSENSE has garnered critical acclaim as both an e-commerce engine and a producer of cultural content, generating an average of 100 million monthly page views.

Approximately 80% of its audience is between the ages of 18 to 40. It is privately held and has achieved high double digit annual growth and profitability since its inception.


Job Description:


Vendor Management (70%):


  • Identify, document, and present each category of SSENSE technology vendor using industry standard terms and definitions acting as the starting point of vendor management program inputs and outputs
  • Working with the Director, evaluate Technology and Business requirements to design, initiate, and track an SSENSE Vendor Management program
  • Continuously evaluate to maintain appropriate functions, inputs, outputs, and measurability
  • Build, support, execute, and be accountable for Vendor Management reporting
  • Monitor reporting to ensure accuracy, insync with program changes, and reliable evaluation
  • Stay aware of industry related technology and retail trends, monitor and evaluate technology vendors to identify functional or entire service gaps out of pace with SSENSE goals
  • Copresent a quarterly state of SSENSE Vendors report that highlights and drives innovation or value creation by identifying and addressing gaps to Senior Leadership.

Contract Management (20%):


  • Evaluate current vendor contracts across categories by matrixing key contract functions across and within technology categories to deliver the foundations of a contract management program
  • Copresent a quarterly state of SSENSE Vendor contracts that highlights disparities within and across technology categories

Purchase Order Management (10%):


  • Act as backup to the Sr. Purchasing Agent to create and release Purchase Orders
  • Report on Purchase Orders as needed

Qualifications:


Requirements:


  • Bachelor's degree in Business Management or an equivalent related field
  • A minimum of 23 years of recent technology related experience preferably with an ecommerce or retail company
  • A minimum of 3 years experience working in technology Vendor or Contract Management teams
  • Proficient in English, French an asset
  • Certified in CCCM, CPCM, and/or CCMP or equivalent certifications
  • Experience with SAP Hyperion or other similar Enterprise products
  • Proficient with most Google Suite or MS Office/365 Products
  • Highly skilled with Google Sheets or Excel (Google Apps Scripts, Query, Vlookup, Pivot Tables)
  • Demonstrable track record of highperformance in a demanding rapidly changing environment

SKILLS

  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain partnerships crossfunctionally
  • Ability to maintain and promote high standards of accountability and transparency
  • Effective communication and presentation skills across all levels of the organization
  • Critical thinking orientated to problem analysis and solving
  • Ability to manage tight deadlines, prioritize workload and achieve results in a fastpaced, dynamic, environment
  • Ability to read and evaluate technology related Contract Terms & Conditions
  • Ability to understand and communicate Negotiation Frameworks
Additional Information

WORLD CLASS TECHNOLOGY
Technology is at the core of everything we do at SSENSE.

Driven by an engineering mindset and a problem-solving attitude, we blend fashion with technology to deliver an unparalleled experience to our customers as we build seamless, custom solutions to deliver the SSENSE offering.


WORLD CLASS TEAM
The SSENSE tech team is responsible for an international headless commerce platform.

Working in an agile environment, our squads are made up of experienced innovators in Product Management, QA, Design, DevOps, Software Development, Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Security.

Headquartered in Montreal, our technology organization has been growing at a rate of 2X year-over-year and is doubling once again in 2021 as we expand across Canada, US, and Europe.


WORLD CLASS PLATFORM
The SSENSE platform runs on Amazon Web Services making use of serverless microservices across web, mobile and app.

Our event-source architecture already achieves over 10,000 requests / second and growing at an unmatched pace, currently unseen across the industry.

Our data-driven culture of innovation empowers every product team across the tech organization to explore building, testing and learning with the latest in Machine Learning techniques.

Our automated continuous improvement DevOps model (making use of both blue / green and canary deployments) results in an average of 50 production releases every day.


Read more about us on our SSENSE Tec
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