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Work. Serve. Thrive.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
The Opportunity
Salary Range: $111,000 - $116,000 Based on Experience.
Responsibilities:
- Cultivates and manages productive relationships with key and strategic technology vendors to support service delivery, accountability, innovation, and long-term partnership value.
- Serves as a primary relationship point for strategic vendors, facilitating regular business reviews, performance discussions, escalation management, and alignment on organizational priorities.
- Evaluates vendor relationship health by monitoring responsiveness, service quality, partnership effectiveness, risk indicators, and ability to meet evolving business and technology needs.
- Defines strategies for vendor partnerships, including strategic, operational, tactical, and commodity vendor relationships.
- Manages the vendor engagement lifecycle, including sourcing, selection, contract negotiation, onboarding, governance, termination, and billing.
- Defines, implements, and manages core vendor governance processes, including scorecarding, risk management, performance reporting, and performance improvement.
- Reports quarterly to the Technology Leadership Team on the status, performance, risks, and value of key and strategic supplier relationships.
- Creates and incorporates contract amendments, including renegotiated terms and scope changes.
- Proactively identifies sourcing synergies across business entities and executes value opportunities.
- Works with Technology leadership and business partners to understand, define, and prioritize vendor and technology requirements.
- Builds and maintains institutional knowledge of vendor collaboration practices, governance expectations, relationship history, and lessons learned.
- Monitors the financial viability and management stability of key vendors.
- Monitors and analyzes spending trends to recommend future actions and identify savings opportunities.
- Assists business partners with the development of business cases and return on investment calculations for new technology investment initiatives.
- Provides training and coaching to business partners on vendor management practices.
- Analyzes problem areas and helps resolve vendor-related issues, escalations, and disputes.
Required Competencies, Experience and Certifications:
- 8+ years of technology experience, including at least 5 years of direct vendor management, operations management, or vendor oversight experience.
- Proven ability to lead vendor management practices across sourcing, Request for x (RFx) processes, contract negotiation, onboarding, governance, performance management, and issue resolution.
- Strong understanding of the technology services landscape, including technology architecture and planning, technical requirements, development methodologies, outsourcing models, service offerings, pricing, and delivery structures.
- Experience with financial management, spend analysis, business case development, return on investment calculations, and identification of savings or value opportunities.
- Demonstrated ability to create, modify, and improve processes, procedures, reporting, and governance practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, attention-to-detail, and decision-making skills.
- Strong stakeholder partnership skills, including the ability to communicate clearly, mentor others, and work collaboratively with Technology, business, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and vendor partners.
Preferred Competencies, Experience, and Certifications:
- Software engineering, system administration, or related technical background.
- Experience developing technical documentation, use cases, road maps, or vendor performance reporting.
- Experience scoping, scheduling, and managing technology projects.
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
Work. Serve. Thrive.
Feeding America is the nation’s largest charity and the leading domestic hunger-relief charity in the United States. Our mission is to feed America's hungry through a nationwide network of member food banks and engage our country in the fight to end hunger.
This is a hybrid position based out of Feeding America’s Chicago office location. At Feeding America, we believe in offering a flexible work environment. Employees can be in the office an average of 2 days a week (when not travelling for work) and work from home on other days. Employees also have access to a 30-day “work anywhere” program during the course of each calendar year that can be combined with PTO and/or holidays.
Learn more about Feeding America here.
The Opportunity
Salary Range: $111,000 - $116,000 Based on Experience.
Responsibilities:
- Cultivates and manages productive relationships with key and strategic technology vendors to support service delivery, accountability, innovation, and long-term partnership value.
- Serves as a primary relationship point for strategic vendors, facilitating regular business reviews, performance discussions, escalation management, and alignment on organizational priorities.
- Evaluates vendor relationship health by monitoring responsiveness, service quality, partnership effectiveness, risk indicators, and ability to meet evolving business and technology needs.
- Defines strategies for vendor partnerships, including strategic, operational, tactical, and commodity vendor relationships.
- Manages the vendor engagement lifecycle, including sourcing, selection, contract negotiation, onboarding, governance, termination, and billing.
- Defines, implements, and manages core vendor governance processes, including scorecarding, risk management, performance reporting, and performance improvement.
- Reports quarterly to the Technology Leadership Team on the status, performance, risks, and value of key and strategic supplier relationships.
- Creates and incorporates contract amendments, including renegotiated terms and scope changes.
- Proactively identifies sourcing synergies across business entities and executes value opportunities.
- Works with Technology leadership and business partners to understand, define, and prioritize vendor and technology requirements.
- Builds and maintains institutional knowledge of vendor collaboration practices, governance expectations, relationship history, and lessons learned.
- Monitors the financial viability and management stability of key vendors.
- Monitors and analyzes spending trends to recommend future actions and identify savings opportunities.
- Assists business partners with the development of business cases and return on investment calculations for new technology investment initiatives.
- Provides training and coaching to business partners on vendor management practices.
- Analyzes problem areas and helps resolve vendor-related issues, escalations, and disputes.
Required Competencies, Experience and Certifications:
- 8+ years of technology experience, including at least 5 years of direct vendor management, operations management, or vendor oversight experience.
- Proven ability to lead vendor management practices across sourcing, Request for x (RFx) processes, contract negotiation, onboarding, governance, performance management, and issue resolution.
- Strong understanding of the technology services landscape, including technology architecture and planning, technical requirements, development methodologies, outsourcing models, service offerings, pricing, and delivery structures.
- Experience with financial management, spend analysis, business case development, return on investment calculations, and identification of savings or value opportunities.
- Demonstrated ability to create, modify, and improve processes, procedures, reporting, and governance practices.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, attention-to-detail, and decision-making skills.
- Strong stakeholder partnership skills, including the ability to communicate clearly, mentor others, and work collaboratively with Technology, business, Finance, Procurement, Legal, and vendor partners.
Preferred Competencies, Experience, and Certifications:
- Software engineering, system administration, or related technical background.
- Experience developing technical documentation, use cases, road maps, or vendor performance reporting.
- Experience scoping, scheduling, and managing technology projects.
- Fosters an Enterprise Mindset
- Fosters an Open and Supportive Environment
- Leads with Accountability
- Collaborates Internally and Externally
- Focuses on People and Teams
- Manages Organization and Business Complexity
- Communicates with Impact and Influence
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Who's Hiring
- Deloitte20
- Amazon5
- Oscar Health4
- Parallon3P
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals3
Top Industries Hiring
- Consulting & Professional Services
- Technology & Software
- Banking & Financial Services
- Healthcare & Medical Services
- Investment & Asset Management
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in vendor management analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business administration, or a related field
- Experience managing vendor contracts, SLAs, and performance scorecards
- Proficiency with procurement platforms such as SAP Ariba, Coupa, or Oracle
- Strong analytical skills with experience in Excel, Tableau, or similar tools
- Familiarity with sourcing, RFP processes, and contract lifecycle management
- CPSM, CPIM, or equivalent procurement or supply chain certification preferred
Tips for Your Vendor Management Analyst Job Search
Quantify supplier savings on your resume
Hiring managers want to see what you actually moved. Replace vague duties with outcomes: cost reductions negotiated, contract cycle times shortened, or supplier scorecards you built. Numbers make your vendor management experience concrete and comparable across candidates.
List the procurement tools you know
Job descriptions for vendor management analysts frequently filter on specific platforms like SAP Ariba, Coupa, or Oracle Procurement Cloud. Name every tool you've used in a dedicated skills section so your resume clears keyword screens before a recruiter ever reads it.
Target postings by contract category
Vendor management roles vary sharply by spend category: IT services, facilities, logistics, and marketing procurement each require different supplier knowledge. Filter openings by the category you know best so your experience maps directly to what the hiring team manages.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists vendor management analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Prepare a supplier escalation story
Interviewers consistently ask how you handled a vendor that missed SLAs or a contract dispute that escalated. Have one specific story ready that covers what you identified, how you escalated or renegotiated, and what the outcome was for the business relationship.
Negotiate by anchoring to market benchmarks
When discussing compensation, reference BLS or industry compensation data for procurement and vendor management roles in your target city. Anchoring your ask to external benchmarks shifts the conversation away from your current pay and toward what the market supports.
Vendor Management Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most vendor management analysts?
The companies hiring the most vendor management analysts right now include Deloitte, Amazon, and Oscar Health, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Florida, and New Jersey, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of August 2026. Large enterprises in financial services, healthcare systems, and retail tend to maintain the most active vendor management teams.
How many vendor management analyst jobs are remote?
About 65% of vendor management analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of August 2026, reflecting broad employer comfort with distributed procurement work. Roles focused on data analysis, reporting, and contract documentation tend to be most remote, while positions that require on-site supplier audits or warehouse coordination are more likely to be in-person.
How do you become a vendor management analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, or finance, then build hands-on experience in purchasing, procurement coordination, or contract administration. Learn at least one enterprise procurement platform such as SAP Ariba or Coupa. Earning a CPSM or CPIM certification signals technical credibility to employers and is frequently listed as a preferred qualification in job postings.
Can you get a vendor management analyst job with little experience?
Yes, entry-level vendor management analyst roles are accessible if you can show relevant adjacent experience. Internships in procurement, purchasing coordinator roles, or finance analyst positions that involved vendor payments all transfer well. Highlight any work involving contracts, supplier communication, or spend data, and pair it with a recognized certification to offset a shorter work history.
What does the vendor management analyst interview process look like?
Most hiring processes include an initial recruiter screen, a hiring manager interview focused on your procurement or contract experience, and a technical or case round where you analyze a vendor performance scenario or interpret spend data. Final rounds often involve a panel with cross-functional stakeholders from finance or operations who will work directly with the vendor management team.
Where can I find and apply to vendor management analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to vendor management analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Find roles that match your experience and location, then apply directly to each listing from the page.
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