Vendor Management Associate

Company Overview:

Cohere Health is illuminating healthcare for patients, their doctors, and all those who are important in a patient’s healthcare experience, both in and out of the doctors office.  Founded in August, 2019, we are obsessed with eliminating wasteful friction patients and doctors experience in areas that have nothing to do with health and treatment, particularly for diagnoses that require expensive procedures or medications.  To that end, we build software that is expressly designed to ensure the appropriate plan of care is understood and expeditiously approved, so that patients and doctors can focus on health, rather than payment or administrative hassles.

Opportunity Overview:

We are looking for a Vendor Management Associate. Reporting to the Manager of Vendor Manager, this role assists with ensuring the best win-win scenarios for Cohere’s and their external partners. Ensuring alignment to the direction of the business in a complex, ever changing environment. This position is responsible for assisting with determining and delivering on vendor management strategy and operating goals. 

You should apply if you have experience delivering quality results and operational excellence through productive and collaborative vendor relationships. You know how to work in an organization that is fast-moving but also scalable, reliable and compliant. You are skilled in communicating with vendors, tracking SLAs, project management, and understanding everyone’s interests to create positive working relationships.  You thrive in a fast paced environment, assisting with strategic guidance and being empowered to operationalize a game-changing vision.

Last but not least: People who succeed here are empathetic teammates who are candid, kind, caring, and embody our core values and principles. We believe that diverse, inclusive teams make the most impactful work. Cohere is deeply invested in ensuring that we have a supportive, growth-oriented environment that works for everyone.

What you will do:

• Actively involved with vendor/department relationships
• Track vendor SLAs and SOWs
• Project manage implementation of new vendors
• Work cross-functionally with other teams to analyze, plan, and manage vendor success
• Develop and maintain key vendor relationships
• Assist with procurement processes when seeking out new vendors 
• Help create, implement, enforce new policies
• Proactively identify where problems can occur and remediate
• Monitor quality and details of vendor performance; locate poor performance swiftly and effectively and provide feedback to solutions

Your background & requirements:

• Excellent customer service and professionalism
• Project management
• Strong mindset for vendor partnerships and collaborations 
• Strong communicator
• Self starter
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to thrive in ambiguous situations and driven by urgency
• Self-directed, confident, and thrive working in a fast-paced startup environment

• Bachelor's degree
• Experience with creating and fostering external relationships
• Experience solving complex customer or vendor issues
• Experience with procurement practices, RFI/RFP/Informal Quotes and and vendor selection process 
• Managed a comprehensive portfolio of vendors and their outcomes
• Experience in project management 
• Strategic advisor to the business on vendor solutions

 

We can’t wait to learn more about you and meet you at Cohere Health!

Equal Opportunity Statement: 

Cohere Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to fostering an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all.  To us, it’s personal.