About Vantage Data Centers

Vantage Data Centers powers, cools, protects and connects the technology of the world’s well-known hyperscalers, cloud providers and large enterprises. Developing and operating across North America, EMEA and Asia Pacific, Vantage has evolved data center design in innovative ways to deliver dramatic gains in reliability, efficiency and sustainability in flexible environments that can scale as quickly as the market demands.

People & Culture Department

The People & Culture (P&C) Team at Vantage is lean, effective, well-respected, and growing, with the vision of designing and ensuring an exceptional employee experience from application to alumnus. The team is distinguished by its innovative and strategic approach, working in close partnership with business leaders to develop practical and business-minded solutions that keep the development and growth of our people at the center.  Each member of our P&C team plays a pivotal role on the team and in the business.  Trust, Agility, Respect, and Accountability are the Vantage core values—and we seek to live every value, every day, while thinking creatively to make Vantage the employer of choice and power our people.

Position Overview

This role will be based at our site in Shackelford County, Texas or Port Washington, Wisconsin.

Vantage is seeking a highly skilled Talent Acquisition Vendor Manager to oversee and optimize our external recruitment partnerships and talent acquisition technology stack. This individual will be responsible for managing our RPO provider, staffing agency relationships, and technology vendor ecosystem to ensure best-in-class delivery, cost-effectiveness, and strategic alignment with our hiring needs. The ideal candidate will bring strong vendor management expertise, contract negotiation skills, and an ability to evaluate vendor performance against business goals.

Essential Job Functions

Vendor & Partner Management

• Oversee the relationship, governance, and performance management of our RPO provider.
• Manage a portfolio of staffing agency partners, including contract negotiations, fee structures, performance scorecards, and capability evaluations.
• Introduce and onboard new agency partners in alignment with business needs across all Vantage departments where prompted.
• Lead vendor business reviews, ensuring alignment on SLAs, KPIs, diversity goals, and delivery standards.
• Move with agility on vendor engagements to support hiring at scale, while maintaining the highest emphasis on identifying quality talent.
• Ensure correct and accurate processing for invoices submitted upon successful placements.
• Partner with Legal and Procurement to review agreements, pricing, contract renewals, risk mitigation, and budget allocations.
• Benchmark market pricing for agencies, RPOs, and tech vendors to ensure competitive rates.
• Assist internal team in ensuring vendors complete third-party risk management prior to business partnership commencing.
• Monitor a vendor inbox to field, respond, and direct inquiries/submittals where necessary.
• Assess agency and RPO candidate submissions to ensure alignment with hiring requirements, redirecting efforts where needed.
• Provide guidance to recruiters and vendors on the types of candidates most likely to succeed, ensuring the team’s time is focused on high-value pipelines.
• Monitor vendors to ensure alignment in working directly through Vantage Talent Acquisition to streamline staffing engagements.
• Establish and maintain a Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for permanent-placement agencies, including entry/exit criteria, performance scorecards, and corrective-action plans.
• Negotiate direct-hire agency agreements—fee structures, candidate ownership terms, and replacement guarantees—to ensure cost-effective, high-quality hires.
• Integrate agency partners into the ATS for requisition routing, candidate submittals, and invoicing automation.

Strategic & Operational Leadership

• Provide data-driven recommendations to optimize partner mix, spend, and delivery.
• Collaborate with TA leadership and business stakeholders to forecast hiring demand and align vendor capacity.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, data privacy, and legal requirements in all vendor engagements.
• Own the annual agency spend budget for permanent placements; track cost-per-hire, time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire to drive continuous improvement and cost savings.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Partner closely with TA, HR, and business leaders to understand hiring needs and translate them into vendor strategies.
• Act as escalation point between recruiters/hi