Vendor Management Solutions Consultant, Google Cloud (English, Spanish)
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About the job:
Google Cloud is seeking a Vendor Management Solutions Consultant to support the rapidly growing Machine Learning Data compute operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in vendor strategy, sourcing, selection, negotiations, and contracting, as well as a deep understanding of ML data operations, including human evaluations and ratings. This role will focus on developing scalable cost-optimal operating models and service capabilities, managing vendor relationships, and driving supplier performance around service quality and value addition. You will also be responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and delivering scalable solutions to transform services and provide insights to leadership.
Must have:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- 8 years of experience in consulting, operations, or vendor strategy and management
- 3 years of experience in vendor sourcing, vendor selection, negotiations and contracting
- Experience in multi vendor operations management for scaled operations and vendor relationship management
- Ability to communicate in English and Spanish fluently
Good to have:
- Experience engaging with executive vendor account leaders
- Experience in operational or sourcing capacity for Machine Learning data operations, content review, annotations, and ratings
- Understanding of service contracts and statements of work for outsourced operations
- Ability to influence and engage with cross-functional teams
Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience in consulting, operations, or vendor strategy and management.
- 3 years of experience in vendor sourcing, vendor selection, negotiations and contracting.
- Experience in multi vendor operations management for scaled operations and vendor relationship management.
- Ability to communicate in English and Spanish fluently to support client relationship management in this region.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience engaging with executive vendor account leaders.
- Experience in operational or sourcing capacity for Machine Learning data operations, content review, annotations, and ratings.
- Understanding of service contracts and statements of work for outsourced operations.
- Ability to influence and engage with cross-functional teams.
About the job
Google Cloud is a rapidly growing business with continuously evolving needs. We’re looking for team members that embrace change and remain grounded in delivering measurable results and scaling vendorization as a service.
The Google Cloud Vendor Management (VMO) team has responsibility for all extended workforce needs across Google Cloud, including but not limited to extended workforce strategy, vendor partner selection, governance, and operations and performance management. We’re building a team that is focused on partnering with the businesses we support to achieve proactive issue resolution and value creation. We partner deeply with all Google Cloud teams in Support, Learning, Sales and Engineering to set up new vendor engagements, improve existing ones, and drive transformation and cost efficiency for Google.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate on the development and execution of the vendor strategy, sourcing, vendor selection, discussions, and contracting for Machine Learning (ML) Data compute operations including Human evals and ratings.
- Develop scalable cost optimal operating models and service capabilities, including gig based delivery models for both time bound research projects as well as on going long-term evals for ML data operations.
- Manage the overall relationship with the CoreML business and engineering teams and engage and collaborate with teams across Google to drive results.
- Drive supplier performance around service quality and value addition through structured governance and performance measurement mechanisms.
- Identify, prioritize, and deliver scalable solutions and run operational initiatives across the globe to scale and transform services, while measuring the business impact of those solutions in order to provide insights to leadership and inform further innovation.
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