Lead Vendor Management Associate

Are you ready to make an impact at DTCC?

Do you want to work on innovative projects, collaborate with a dynamic and supportive team, and receive investment in your professional development? At DTCC, we are at the forefront of innovation in the financial markets. We're committed to helping our employees grow and succeed. We believe that you have the skills and drive to make a real impact. We foster a thriving internal community and are committed to creating a workplace that looks like the world that we serve.

Pay and Benefits:

• Competitive compensation, including base pay and annual incentive
• Comprehensive health and life insurance and well-being benefits, based on location
• Pension / Retirement benefits
• Paid Time Off and Personal/Family Care, and other leaves of absence when needed to support your physical, financial, and emotional well-being.
• DTCC offers a flexible/hybrid model of 3 days onsite and 2 days remote (onsite Tuesdays, Wednesdays and a third day unique to each team or employee).

The impact you will have in this role:

The Technology Investment Strategy team is tasked with implementing and managing a Service and Portfolio Governance framework for all Technology Products and Services, and ensuring the technology budget is invested into the right areas to ensure the long-term success of our strategic objectives. The team achieves these objectives by partnering with IT leaders across the enterprise to understand their specific internal and external needs, and then align those to the strategic needs of the organization.

The Strategic Vendor Governance team, within the Technology Investment Management function, focuses on Vendor Management practices to ensure better outcomes out of our vendor contracts, while increasing accountability for our vendor partnerships and will support the function by producing and publishing vendor scorecards.

This role will partner with our IT stakeholders and IT Executive Sponsors, Corporate Procurement Services, Finance, and Third-Party Risk Management; develop and report on metrics to help manage vendor performance and drive increased IT vendor accountability.

The ability to be flexible, and focused under pressure, all while managing multiple deliverables within rigid target delivery dates are fundamental skills required to be successful in this role. Must be highly organized and detail oriented; strong written and verbal communication skills are required; must be comfortable presenting to leadership and interacting with senior management and driving conversations.

Your Primary Responsibilities:

• Understands key metrics and acts as a business analyst between the Product Manager and Developers with ability to convert high level business requirements into executable, detailed user stories to enable development in the IT Vendor Metrics dashboard
• Ownership of the IT vendor metrics dashboard and reference guide, ensuring governance for existing metrics and drive the creation of future state metrics and automation
• Management in the delivery of an accurate and complete dashboard in accordance of the agreed upon cadence, including key insights and can address any inquiries presented for review/critical issue.
• Strong relationship/networking skills to build network with key collaborators across the organization and with key vendor contacts.
• Mitigates risk by following established procedures and monitoring controls, spotting key errors, and demonstrating strong ethical behavior.
• Support standard monthly reporting with focus on oversight and final delivery of the written portions of the report, ensuring a high level of quality output.
• Support development of new reports and presentations, using thought leadership in communication and report styles.
• Role is not limited to the responsibilities highlighted above.

**NOTE: The Primary Responsibilities of this role are not limited to the details above. **

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 6 years of related experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred or equivalent experience

Talents Needed for Success:

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Data analysis and problem-solving skills as well as strong organizational and data management skills
• Work collaboratively by building consensus and influencing decision making to foster forward progress with projects
• Microsoft Office suite, with advanced Excel knowledge and PowerPoint skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, prioritize tasks, and adapt to shifting priorities
• Strong attention to detail and a high degree of accuracy in delivering outputs
• Working knowledge of Power Apps a plus
• Project Management Skills
• Agile Approach - ability to multi-task and attention to detail is a must

The salary range is indicative for roles at the same level within DTCC across all US locations. Actual salary is determined based on the role, location, individual experience, skills, and other considerations. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

About Us

With over 50 years of experience, DTCC is the premier post-trade market infrastructure for the global financial services industry. From 20 locations around the world, DTCC, through its subsidiaries, automates, centralizes, and standardizes the processing of financial transactions, mitigating risk, increasing transparency, enhancing performance and driving efficiency for thousands of broker/dealers, custodian banks and asset managers. Industry owned and governed, the firm innovates purposefully, simplifying the complexities of clearing, settlement, asset servicing, transaction processing, trade reporting and data services across asset classes, bringing enhanced resilience and soundness to existing financial markets while advancing the digital asset ecosystem. In 2024, DTCC's subsidiaries processed securities transactions valued at U.S. $3.7 quadrillion and its depository subsidiary provided custody and asset servicing for securities issues from over 150 countries and territories valued at U.S. $99 trillion. DTCC's Global Trade Repository service, through locally registered, licensed, or approved trade repositories, processes more than 25 billion messages annually. To learn more, please visit us at or connect with us on LinkedIn , X , YouTube , Facebook and Instagram .

DTCC proudly supports Flexible Work Arrangements favoring openness and gives people freedom to do their jobs well, by encouraging diverse opinions and emphasizing teamwork. When you join our team, you'll have an opportunity to make meaningful contributions at a company that is recognized as a thought leader in both the financial services and technology industries. A DTCC career is more than a good way to earn a living. It's the chance to make a difference at a company that's truly one of a kind.

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About the Team

IT Architecture and Enterprise Services are responsible for enabling digital transformation of DTCC. The group manages complexity of the technology landscape within DTCC and enhances agility, robustness and security of the technology footprint. It does so by serving as the focal point for all technology architectural activities in the organization as well as engineering a portfolio of foundational technology assets to enable our digital transformation.