Vendor Manager

Vendor Manager, Marketplace Support - London
The Marketplace Support Team
The Marketplace Support team at Deliveroo supports our customers from all sides of the marketplace. The Vendor Management team plays an important role in bridging the gap between the day-to-day running of operations and longer-term goals and objectives. The team is responsible for managing the relationships and performance of our third-party vendors, ensuring we maximise value, efficiency and customer experience.

In this role, you'll be involved in three key areas:

• Managing day-to-day relationships with our vendors - ensuring any operational issues are resolved as quickly as possible, and keeping up-to-date on new capabilities and product improvements
• Ensuring accurate and timely financial reconciliation - ensuring costs are correctly raised, allocated, paid and reported quickly and effectively
• Working on projects to support our longer-term strategy - partnering with teams from across the business to achieve specific goals (e.g. procuring a new capability)

What You'll Be Doing

• Responding to and resolving issues and escalations related to partner activity or performance
• Maintaining our contracts, ensuring any changes are updated in an accurate and timely manner
• Hosting regular vendor meetings, which includes owning monthly/quarterly reviews
• Exploring opportunities throughout the contract lifecycle to reduce cost, or improve outcomes
• Developing vendor scorecards to monitor performance and owning specific improvement plans
• Accurately tracking, reconciling and reporting vendor spend through robust purchase order governance, ensuring the relevant stakeholders remain informed of all activities
• Owning projects and leading updates for the leadership team and senior stakeholders on progress
• Contributing to Deliveroo's long-term tooling/vendor strategy - working within a team to achieve a specific departmental or company goal
• Helping define targets, KPIs and goals for the team, and prioritising own goals
• Take on the rotational Manager on Call duty, serving as the First level escalation for our global operations

Requirements
We are looking for someone who:

• Has 5+ years' experience with a previous track record of operations or vendor management with outsourced third parties
• Has experience in million-dollar contract administration and relationship management
• Is detail-oriented and action-oriented, with experience in working in cross-functional projects
• Takes personal accountability for the quality and accuracy of their work
• Has a solid analytical background (e.g. Excel pivot tables and INDEX MATCH)

Why Deliveroo?
Why Deliveroo? When you first think about Deliveroo, you probably think of getting great food to your house in less than half an hour. Awesome right? But behind the scenes is the real story. This story is one of high growth, huge challenges and an enormous opportunity ahead of us.

We want to be the definitive food company - the app you go to any time you have a hunger pang. We are transforming the way people think about food. We're a technology-driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world, so come and join us for the ride.

Benefits And Diversity
At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgment when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest-growing startups in an incredibly exciting space.