Vendor Manager

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• On boarding of new vendors including obtaining SOWs, agreements, NDAs and additional documentation as required.
• Evaluate and perform due diligence and ongoing monitoring of potential and existing vendors.
• Ensuring SLAs are consistently met or exceeded in accordance with contractual requirements.
• Running daily, weekly and monthly reports to ensure that title and closing turn times meet with client SLA’s.
• Producing and delivering performance scorecards for operational processes.
• Facilitate daily/weekly/monthly calls with key stakeholders to review performance, quality, turn times, score cards, and Corrective Action Plans.
• Oversee vendor fulfillment to ensure remediation plans are appropriately tracked and completed.
• Resolve disputes and manage escalations.
• Ensure stakeholders/vendors are providing best in class customer service to clients and customers.
• Build collaborative partnerships with internal and external partners to enhance the capacity and capabilities of the organization to identify and deliver consistent solutions.
• Identify areas of improvements and locate vendors/solutions to enhance our product offerings there

QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS:

• High school diploma or equivalent required, Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience managing vendor/relationship management.
• 3+ years of financial/mortgage/title experience preferred.
• Good understanding of title insurance and title clearing is required.
• Superior analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and negotiating skills.

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly and concisely present issues, ideas and recommendations in verbal, written and presentation formats.
• Highly motivated, inquisitive, self-started with the ability to multi-task and effectively manage priorities to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environmen
• Strong attention to detail, excellent organizational skills, ability to manage multiple projects and the capacity to work under pressure and tight deadlines.
• Ability to manage and mentor stakeholders by teaching technical skills, sharing insights, and reinforcing the foundational guiding principles of Storefron
• Ability to direct teams and influence stakeholders at multiple levels within the enterprise in an environment with shared authority (over the vendor relationship).
• Capable of generating a high degree of respect and trust to develop, maintain strong relationships with business partners across all levels of stakeholders and assigned vendors.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

Physical Demands:

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to sit. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Ardán offers some great perks:

• Health, dental, and vision benefits
• Employer-paid disability and life insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• 401K with company match
• Paid time off and company-paid holidays
• Wellness resources

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications associated with

Ardán is a family of companies that make real estate closings faster, simpler, and safer through technology-driven, innovative solutions, sound underwriting, and exceptional customer service. At Ardán, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of Insur-Tech. Our brands—Westcor, Grid151®, GridBase®, and X1 Analytics®—are dedicated to using technology to streamline and improve every step of the closing process. Westcor - Founded by title agents, Westcor is the number one independent title insurance underwriter in the nation. Westcor’s technology-driven products and services and sound underwriting help agents and their customers close real estate transactions faster and with peace of mind. Website: wltic.com Grid151 - Powered by GridBase® technology, Grid151® delivers tech-enabled fulfillment services to the title insurance industry. Website: grid151.com X1 Analytics - Using its proprietary data analytics engine, X1 Analytics® equips the title insurance industry with decisions and data which enable faster real estate closings with reduced cost and operational friction. Website: x1analytics.com GridBase - sing their proprietary tech stack to create the universal API for lender and title collaboration, GridBase® delivers data middleware and tools that transform lender and title operations with highly optimized automations and integrations. Website: gridbase.io