• Onboard new external partners, ensuring they meet quality, cost, and compliance requirements • Lead supplier selection process, negotiate contracts, and manage supplier relationships to ensure favorable terms and conditions • Monitors daily workflow and provides guidance on processes and special handling items for major expenses to the business • Manages the daily performance of the current and future external partnerships • Establishes work priorities for the current and future external partnerships and monitors and reviews the work of the partners • Monitors productivity levels of the partners to ensure company goals are met • Maintains current and future external partnerships performance criteria as outlined in the contract and tracks such criteria, against actual performance • Provides external partners performance summary monthly • Evaluates the knowledge and skill levels of the current and future external partnerships staffing to ensure performance levels are meeting and exceeding standards needed to accomplish GEHA’s business requirements • Prepares analysis to evaluate partner’s contract performance for use in approval of monthly invoices • Manages grievances and partner relation issues as needed and involves the Director when issues become larger • Provides proper training for the current and future external partnerships on new GEHA processes, and any additional training needed on existing processes • Monitors current and future external partnerships recruitment to ensure current and future external partnerships has proper staffing for supporting and maintaining GEHA’s business requirements • Works with manager to design metrics and processes to ensure partner relationships are consistently reviewed and managed • Works with executives to determine and analyze new vendor relationships to determine the best partner by managing the RFP process end to end • Build RFP process end to end that can be used for all contracts including how often contracts need to be renewed, can be signed for, etc.