Vendor Management Analyst

About the team

Zillow Group Legal and Compliance is a service-oriented organization of skilled professionals who strive to ensure Zillow Group closely aligns with state and federal regulatory requirements in all of its business practices. Our goal is to create an environment where we’re better together as we work within an innovative, dynamic company whose purpose is to make home a reality for everyone.

About the role

Zillow is seeking an accountable and engaged resource to join Zillow Group’s Enterprise Vendor Management Team. This position operates with initiative and requires establishing and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure vendor risks are appropriately evaluated and incorporated into vendor/supplier decisions. The responsibilities will encompass vendor onboarding, due diligence coordination, relationship management, vendor performance oversight, score-carding, conducting vendor risk analysis, and providing consistent and focused vendor feedback/reporting. This person will effectively engage across business lines and with various risk SMEs to coordinate vendor risk management activities and ensure vendor associated risks align with enterprise risk tolerance.

The ideal person will also support supplier sustainability and diversity initiatives helping to identify and increase purchasing and partnership opportunities with diverse-owned businesses, furthering our commitment to driving economic development and building prosperity in the communities we serve. If you want to make big contributions to a fast-growing enterprise, we encourage you to apply!

As the Vendor Management Analyst, you will:

• Engage in and drive the full vendor lifecycle including risk assessment, due diligence and ongoing monitoring with key focus on task execution and providing support for strategies, procedures, and systems.
• Partnering with key internal collaborators to drive fundamental vendor sustainability and diversity initiatives.
• Effectively drive vendor onboarding and account setup activities.
• Support completion of vendor risk assessments, collaborating with risk SMEs to achieve program results to manage, reduce, and mitigate vendor risks.
• Coordinate offboarding.
• Coordinate monitoring of vendor risk mitigation activities.
• Use your excellent communications skills to deliver vendor performance results, including SLAs, metrics and scorecards
• Researches and validates vendor compliance with vendor management policy; help model and advance effective, efficient and compliant workflows

This role has been categorized as a Remote position. “Remote” employees do not have a permanent corporate office workplace and, instead, work from a physical location of their choice, which must be identified to the Company. U.S. employees may live in any of the 50 United States, with limited exceptions.

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