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Director Supplier Oversight Strategy
Santander Consumer USA Holdings
Dallas, TX, United States
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Description
Summary of Responsibilities:
The Director Supplier Oversight Strategy will provide strategic direction and leadership to the SVP Vendor Management and department. This department is responsible for overseeing third party relationships (including Suppliers and Dealerships) at an enterprise level in order to improve results from third parties, reduce vendor spend, identify and assess the inherent risks and to review controls to determine residual risk to our company, through initial and ongoing due diligence measures.
Essential Functions:
• Support leadership to develop and execute a strategic plan for the Supplier Oversight department in alignment with organizational goals, enterprise-wide risk objectives and audit requirements, as well as budgetary goals.
• Provides input into the vision and direction of the department to the Leadership of Supplier Oversight that will support the directives set by the company
• Provides vision and direction in matters of existing and potential suppliers, their performance, reporting, and business objectives
• Works with leadership and Risk Team members to support enterprise-wide business cases and risk initiatives.
• Analyzes supplier reports and presents observations and recommendations to the Supplier oversight leadership team
• Identifies gaps in reporting and communicate/recommends revisions to the Supplier oversight leadership team
• Departmental budget development and management of all fiduciary goals
• Supports leadership of the Supplier Oversight area to establish and manage all departmental policies and new procedures to enhance oversight and financial results
• Engages and coordinates with Compliance and Information Risk areas in the evaluation and execution of department and organization-wide initiatives.
• Partners with Supplier oversight leadership and business leadership to ensure visibility to and understanding of key supplier outsource processes.
• Develops strong relationships with key department heads to ensure supplier management oversight is understood and managed appropriately.
• Alerts leadership of possible opportunities in the management of the risk for supplier
• Identifies opportunities to enhance, develop, and implement a supplier oversight program for the company.
• Helps leadership consolidate on-going annual risk reviews and control assurance activities. Engages and coordinates input from responsible areas, as necessary.
• Supports processes for the completion of remediation activities with business management, arising from risk assessments and reviews performed.
• Provides reporting to various levels of executive and management forums.
• Leads and develops direct reports (management level).
• Supports the leadership and development of all Associates within the Supplier Oversight department.
• Helps analyze KPIs and KRIs.
Other Functions:
• Special projects as requested
• Performs other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities:
Provides leadership and direction through directors and/or managers and exempt staff. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with Santander’s policies and applicable laws.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• Eight (8) to ten (10) experience with vendor oversight or procurement &/or contract or supplier procedures, vendor regulatory oversight, enterprise policies/ procedures and commercial regulations relating to the purchase of products and services.
• Three (3) to five (5) years leadership and management experience required.
• Strong understanding of Supplier Management in a financial services company.
• Strong PC/Windows skills required with ability to understand and interpret complex data
• Excellent Microsoft Office Suite skills (primarily Excel)
• Business experience - Must have experience in a national, performance-driven organization.
• Process and procedure oriented.
• Solid understanding of the finance industry's regulatory requirements for the managing of third parties (FFIEC, Fed, CFPB etc.)
• Working knowledge of third party contractual terms and conditions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with business partners at the executive level.
• Proven ability to manage issues through to resolution; skilled at making judgment calls
• Ability to successfully multitask and complete difficult assignments within deadlines which may have short lead times
• Ability to influence and persuade senior management and peers to adopt ideas.
• Strong team building, relationship management, and project management.
• Strong business analysis and problem solving skills. Ability to easily manipulate and analyze a broad range data.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Preferences:
• Master’s degree in a related field preferred.
Working Conditions:
The working conditions described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• Extended working hours may be required as dictated by management and business needs.
• Travel to multiple facilities may be required.
• May be required to lift, push, or pull materials weighing up to twenty (20) pounds.
• May be required to sit and review information on a computer screen for long periods of time.
• May require repetitive motions of the hands and wrist related to writing and typing at an electronic keyboard.
• Corporate / satellite office role.
Employer’s Rights:
This job description does not list all the duties of the job. You may be asked by your supervisors or managers to perform other duties. You will be evaluated in part based upon your performance of the tasks listed in this job description.
The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. This job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason.