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RegularLanguage Fluency: English (Required)
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1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
Supports Enterprise Technology Cost and Supplier Management by helping strengthen the performance, governance, and strategic management of key supplier relationships now and future suppliers. Serves as a trusted partner to business owners and internal stakeholders, establishing productive relationships with critical technology suppliers and creating stronger lines of communication, accountability, and collaboration.This role focuses on suppliers where the organization has significant interaction, complexity, challenges, or opportunities for improvement. Works across internal lines of business and supplier organizations to identify relationship and process gaps, improve supplier engagement, establish consistent operating practices, and help scale effective supplier-management approaches across the broader supplier portfolio.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Establishes and maintains strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, serving as a central point of coordination between supplier teams, business relationship owners, and internal stakeholders.
- Develops a strong understanding of critical supplier relationships, including business priorities, performance expectations, challenges, opportunities, and areas requiring increased attention or improved communication.
- Partners with business relationship owners to understand how individual supplier relationships should be managed and translates those needs into consistent, scalable supplier-management practices.
- Establishes effective communication channels, governance routines, escalation paths, and stakeholder engagement models to strengthen collaboration between the organization and its suppliers.
- Identifies recurring challenges in how the organization engages suppliers and recommends changes to processes, roles, governance, and ways of working.
- Monitors supplier performance, relationship health, service delivery, risks, trends, and opportunities and communicates meaningful insights and recommended actions to stakeholders and leadership.
- Facilitates discussions between suppliers and internal stakeholders to address performance concerns, resolve issues, clarify expectations, and improve overall relationship effectiveness.
- Collaborates across Enterprise Technology, sourcing, procurement, finance, risk, and other business functions to support supplier performance and cost-management objectives.
- Develops and promotes repeatable supplier-management processes, tools, reporting, and best practices that can be applied across multiple supplier relationships.
- Supports supplier governance activities, business reviews, performance discussions, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Uses data, performance measures, stakeholder feedback, and business priorities to identify opportunities to improve supplier outcomes and operational effectiveness.
- Ensures supplier-management activities align with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, risk-management expectations, and established governance standards.
- Communicates supplier status, risks, opportunities, improvement plans, and recommendations effectively to business stakeholders and senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in business operations or related professional roles.
- Strong knowledge of business processes and technology applications.
- Proficiency in standard office software (e.g., Microsoft Office).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing or supporting strategic supplier, vendor, or third-party relationships within a large, complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and internal business owners, particularly where relationships involve significant complexity, performance challenges, or opportunities for improvement.
- Experience with supplier performance management, supplier governance, vendor management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or technology cost management.
- Ability to influence outcomes and build alignment across business stakeholders and supplier organizations without relying on direct authority.
- Experience developing supplier governance models, operating routines, performance reviews, escalation processes, scorecards, or relationship-management frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to identify patterns across individual supplier relationships and translate those insights into repeatable processes and scalable supplier-management practices.
- Experience using supplier performance metrics, service-level information, financial data, and stakeholder feedback to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Experience working with technology suppliers and technology business leaders in a large financial services or similarly regulated environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, technology, supply chain management, finance, or a related field.
General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.
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Regular or Temporary:
RegularLanguage Fluency: English (Required)
Work Shift:
1st shift (United States of America)Please review the following job description:
Supports Enterprise Technology Cost and Supplier Management by helping strengthen the performance, governance, and strategic management of key supplier relationships now and future suppliers. Serves as a trusted partner to business owners and internal stakeholders, establishing productive relationships with critical technology suppliers and creating stronger lines of communication, accountability, and collaboration.This role focuses on suppliers where the organization has significant interaction, complexity, challenges, or opportunities for improvement. Works across internal lines of business and supplier organizations to identify relationship and process gaps, improve supplier engagement, establish consistent operating practices, and help scale effective supplier-management approaches across the broader supplier portfolio.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Following is a summary of the essential functions for this job. Other duties may be performed, both major and minor, which are not mentioned below. Specific activities may change from time to time.
- Establishes and maintains strategic relationships with key technology suppliers, serving as a central point of coordination between supplier teams, business relationship owners, and internal stakeholders.
- Develops a strong understanding of critical supplier relationships, including business priorities, performance expectations, challenges, opportunities, and areas requiring increased attention or improved communication.
- Partners with business relationship owners to understand how individual supplier relationships should be managed and translates those needs into consistent, scalable supplier-management practices.
- Establishes effective communication channels, governance routines, escalation paths, and stakeholder engagement models to strengthen collaboration between the organization and its suppliers.
- Identifies recurring challenges in how the organization engages suppliers and recommends changes to processes, roles, governance, and ways of working.
- Monitors supplier performance, relationship health, service delivery, risks, trends, and opportunities and communicates meaningful insights and recommended actions to stakeholders and leadership.
- Facilitates discussions between suppliers and internal stakeholders to address performance concerns, resolve issues, clarify expectations, and improve overall relationship effectiveness.
- Collaborates across Enterprise Technology, sourcing, procurement, finance, risk, and other business functions to support supplier performance and cost-management objectives.
- Develops and promotes repeatable supplier-management processes, tools, reporting, and best practices that can be applied across multiple supplier relationships.
- Supports supplier governance activities, business reviews, performance discussions, issue resolution, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Uses data, performance measures, stakeholder feedback, and business priorities to identify opportunities to improve supplier outcomes and operational effectiveness.
- Ensures supplier-management activities align with organizational policies, regulatory requirements, risk-management expectations, and established governance standards.
- Communicates supplier status, risks, opportunities, improvement plans, and recommendations effectively to business stakeholders and senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, and work-related experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of relevant experience in business operations or related professional roles.
- Strong knowledge of business processes and technology applications.
- Proficiency in standard office software (e.g., Microsoft Office).
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing or supporting strategic supplier, vendor, or third-party relationships within a large, complex organization.
- Demonstrated experience establishing strong working relationships with suppliers and internal business owners, particularly where relationships involve significant complexity, performance challenges, or opportunities for improvement.
- Experience with supplier performance management, supplier governance, vendor management, strategic sourcing, procurement, or technology cost management.
- Ability to influence outcomes and build alignment across business stakeholders and supplier organizations without relying on direct authority.
- Experience developing supplier governance models, operating routines, performance reviews, escalation processes, scorecards, or relationship-management frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving, and executive communication skills.
- Ability to identify patterns across individual supplier relationships and translate those insights into repeatable processes and scalable supplier-management practices.
- Experience using supplier performance metrics, service-level information, financial data, and stakeholder feedback to identify risks and improvement opportunities.
- Experience working with technology suppliers and technology business leaders in a large financial services or similarly regulated environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in business administration, technology, supply chain management, finance, or a related field.
General Description of Available Benefits for Eligible Employees of Truist Financial Corporation: All regular teammates (not temporary or contingent workers) working 20 hours or more per week are eligible for benefits, though eligibility for specific benefits may be determined by the division of Truist offering the position. Truist offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, accidental death and dismemberment, tax-preferred savings accounts, and a 401k plan to teammates. Teammates also receive no less than 10 days of vacation (prorated based on date of hire and by full-time or part-time status) during their first year of employment, along with 10 sick days (also prorated), and paid holidays. For more details on Truist’s generous benefit plans, please visit our Benefits site. Depending on the position and division, this job may also be eligible for Truist’s defined benefit pension plan, restricted stock units, and/or a deferred compensation plan. As you advance through the hiring process, you will also learn more about the specific benefits available for any non-temporary position for which you apply, based on full-time or part-time status, position, and division of work.
Truist is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, color, religion, citizenship or national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or other classification protected by law. Truist is a Drug Free Workplace.
EEO is the Law E-Verify IER Right to Work
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals
- Consulting & Professional Services
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in supplier performance manager jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain management, engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience using supplier scorecards and key performance indicators to measure vendor performance
- Proficiency with ERP systems such as SAP or Oracle for procurement and quality tracking
- Knowledge of quality management systems including ISO 9001 or IATF 16949 standards
- Experience conducting supplier audits and managing corrective and preventive action processes
- Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) or Six Sigma certification is frequently preferred
Tips for Your Supplier Performance Manager Job Search
Quantify supplier improvement outcomes on your resume
Hiring managers for this role want to see measurable results. Replace vague statements with specific outcomes: defect rates reduced, on-time delivery rates improved, corrective action cycles shortened. Numbers tied to supplier KPIs carry far more weight than descriptions of responsibilities.
Highlight cross-functional collaboration in your materials
Supplier performance managers work constantly with procurement, engineering, and quality assurance teams. Your resume and cover letter should name those functions explicitly and describe how you influenced outcomes across them, not just within your own team or reporting line.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists supplier performance manager openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that match your commodity expertise
Supplier performance roles are often category-specific: electronics, raw materials, logistics, or machined parts. Filter your search by industry and read postings carefully for commodity mentions. Applying where your commodity background aligns directly increases your interview conversion rate.
Prepare scorecards and audit examples before interviews
Interviewers for this role routinely ask how you structure supplier scorecards or lead on-site audits. Walk in with a concrete example ready, including the metrics you tracked, the corrective actions you assigned, and what changed in supplier behavior afterward.
Negotiate scope and travel expectations upfront
This role often involves supplier site visits that vary widely by company. During the offer stage, ask directly about expected travel frequency, the supplier base size you will own, and whether you will carry both quality and delivery accountability or one of the two.
Supplier Performance Manager Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most supplier performance managers?
The most active employers for supplier performance managers right now are Eaton, Amazon, and IREN, and the most openings are in Ohio, Texas, and California, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Manufacturing-heavy states and companies with large global supplier bases tend to post the most roles consistently.
How many supplier performance manager jobs are remote?
About 77% of supplier performance manager openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, though the role often requires periodic on-site supplier visits regardless of home-office flexibility. Sub-functions like data analysis, supplier reporting, and performance dashboard management tend to be the most remote-compatible parts of the job.
How do you become a supplier performance manager?
Start with a degree in supply chain, engineering, or operations, then build hands-on experience in procurement, quality assurance, or supplier development roles. Develop fluency with ERP systems and quality frameworks like ISO or Six Sigma. Progress by owning supplier relationships directly, leading audits, and demonstrating measurable improvements in delivery or defect performance over time.
Can you get a supplier performance manager job with little experience?
Yes, some companies hire candidates into associate or junior supplier performance roles with one to two years in procurement coordination, quality inspection, or operations. Emphasize any experience tracking vendor data, participating in audits, or supporting corrective action processes. Certifications in supply chain or quality management can offset limited direct experience when applying to entry-level postings.
What does the supplier performance manager interview process look like?
Most processes include an initial screening call, a hiring manager interview focused on your supplier management experience, and a panel or cross-functional round with procurement, quality, or engineering stakeholders. Expect scenario-based questions about handling underperforming suppliers, structuring improvement plans, and prioritizing a large supplier base. Some employers include a case study or scorecard exercise.
Where can I find and apply to supplier performance manager jobs?
You can find and apply to supplier performance manager jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your background and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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