IT Business Management Specialist – Vendor Management

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IT Operations

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

The IT Business Management Specialist is an essential member of the Transamerica IT Business Management Office team. The professional we are seeking to hire is a hard-working vendor manager who will assist our company in making sound purchasing decisions. Monitoring vendors to ensure compliance with company policies, attending company meetings, and informing new vendors of their responsibilities to align with the financial and compliance controls set forth by our company are critical components of this role.

Work with Technology Management and business areas as a subject matter expert to support and enable the effective execution of IT business functions including financial management, administration, vendor management, IT delivery management, business planning, analytics, and communications.

To be successful as a vendor manager, you should be detail-oriented and adept at negotiating vendor contracts. Ultimately, an outstanding vendor manager should be able to multitask effectively as well as demonstrate exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Provide documented and accessible guidance and/or training on IT Business Management processes, controls, tools, and methodologies to the Technology organization, key business partners, and external vendors.
• Update policy and procedure documentation in key areas such as the software development lifecycle, vendor management and resource onboarding processes; review of existing IT processes and controls, assess gaps, and recommend/executing remediation plans.
• Contribute to the ongoing refinement/delivery/execution of key IT Business Management strategies (OneIntake, OneInvoice, etc.)
• Conduct data-driven analysis on the health and maturity of our key governance data to identify and remediate issues.
• Identify, test, and propose new process improvement through changes to existing processes or introduction of new tools to enhance overall IT business management operational effectiveness.
• Provide upkeep and maintenance on relevant documentation on the IT portal.
• Serve as a liaison for support vendors and contractors.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, business administration, finance or related field
• Eight years of relevant experience in one or more areas of project and/or program management, financial services, vendor management, process improvement, communications, process librarian, etc.
• PMP or PMI certifications
• Thorough understanding