Senior Manager, Vendor Management
Senior Manager, Vendor Management
DHL Supply Chain7-9 Years
- Posted 21 hours ago
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Job Description
Responsibilities
- Lead the transport vendor management function across assigned operations, customers, and projects.
- Develop and execute vendor strategy covering sourcing, onboarding, allocation, capacity commitment, performance, cost, compliance, and relationship management.
- Build and maintain a structured vendor portfolio, including strategic, core, and backup vendors to ensure service continuity and capacity resilience.
- Manage transport rate governance, commercial conditions, additional cost controls, and vendor cost competitiveness.
- Work closely with Transport Operations to ensure effective vendor allocation, capacity planning, peak readiness, and service delivery.
- Lead vendor performance reviews and corrective action plans for underperforming suppliers.
- Drive cost optimization through rate benchmarking, vendor consolidation, productivity improvement, route and volume allocation, and commercial negotiation.
- Ensure vendors comply with contractual, legal, safety, insurance, vehicle, driver, and DHL compliance requirements.
- Maintain complete and accurate vendor master data, contracts, rate cards, compliance documents, and performance records.
- Partner with Procurement, Operations, Finance, Commercial, Safety, Legal, and regional stakeholders on vendor-related initiatives.
- Support new customer implementations and business growth by ensuring appropriate vendor capacity, capability, and commercial readiness.
- Lead, coach, and develop the Vendor Management team and strengthen governance, accountability, and execution discipline.
- Bachelor's degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Transportation, or a related field.
- Minimum 7 years of relevant experience in transport, logistics, procurement, supplier management, or vendor management.
- Proven experience managing transport subcontractors and third-party logistics providers.
- Strong knowledge of transport operations, capacity planning, rate structures, commercial terms, and cost management.
- Experience in vendor sourcing, negotiation, contracting, performance management, and supplier development.
- Good understanding of transport compliance, safety, documentation, insurance, and regulatory requirements.
- Experience managing budgets, cost-saving initiatives, and vendor-related financial performance.
- Proven leadership experience managing teams and cross-functional stakeholders.
- Experience in contract logistics, domestic transport, or cross-border transport is preferred.
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Key Skills
cost-saving initiatives
rate governance
vendor sourcing
safety documentation
vendor-related financial performance
transport vendor management
transport compliance
commercial negotiation
About Company
Skills:
transport vendor management, safety documentation, commercial negotiation, Supplier Development, Leadership, Capacity Planning, Regulatory Requirements, transport compliance, vendor consolidation, Contracting, rate benchmarking, Insurance, Cost Optimization, transport rate governance
Skills:
Salesforce.com, Rate adjustments, Executive-level English, Forecasting, Commercial controls, vietnamese, Key Account Management, Bids, Change Control, Contract modeling, Presentation, Cost-to-serve understanding, Negotiating renewals, Tender Pricing, Financial Acumen, Deck writing, Margin management, Supply Chain Management, Warehouse Management, Scope increases, Logistics Management
Skills:
Talent Development, Succession Planning, Digital HR tools, People policies, Workforce Planning, organizational design, Talent Acquisition, Strategic HR Business Partnership, Performance Management, HR processes
Skills:
Microsoft Office, Workday, Training Development, Compensation Benefits, HR Systems, Data Management Reporting, Employee Relations, Recruitment and Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, HR Policies Compliance
Skills:
Commercial Mindset, Fluent Business English, Employee Relations, Workforce Planning, Team Leadership, Core HR Processes, Stakeholder Management, Talent Acquisition, Performance Management