Associate Analyst, Strategic Partner Management

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**Responsibilities**:
**The Opportunity**

The Strategic Partner Management Analyst supports the IT Sector Vendor Manager with all aspects of the business and technology sourcing needs with IT’s Preferred Vendors.

The analyst is responsible for analyzing and validating consumption of services, implementing guidelines and processes for coordinating management of the contract, resource and performance management, working with Sector & Global IT stakeholders and partnering with IT Procurement & IT Finance to provide insights/reporting for IT Vendor Portfolio Management.

**Your Impact**

**As Associate Analyst, Strategic Partner Management your functions would consist of**:
1. IT Vendor Governance and Relationship Management:

- Assist in coordinating governance discussions for IT Vendors
- Working with Sector & Global IT stakeholders and providing insights/reporting for IT Strategic Partner Portfolio Management.
- Creating and maintaining IT Vendor profiles for IT strategic & preferred Vendors
- Establishing efficient guidelines and processes to manage PepsiCo’s IT strategic relationships with partners

2. IT Vendor Performance Management:

- Support Track, report and analyze the performance of IT’s Preferred Vendors using Service Level Agreements (SLAs), Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Business Satisfaction Surveys
- Assist in definition, refinement, and consistent reporting of KPIs to PEP IT senior leadership

3. IT Vendor Contract Compliance and Sourcing Risk Management:

- Resolves inquiries from IT stakeholders related to the IT contracts
- Assist in managing the Contract Change management process

4. IT Vendor Resource Management:

- Validation of IT Vendor consumption data (e.g., resource unit validation, verifying calculations, ensuring volume pricing adjustments are applied, etc.) or Project related SOWs using established process.
- Provide input into consumption trend analysis used to ensure best use of finite resources to support our business
- Provide input to IT Finance to support the development of PepsiCo financial forecasts, financial business cases, and budget plans as required at a sector level

Qualifications:
**Who Are We Looking For?**

1. Education
- 4 year college degree or commensurate work experience

2. Experience
- 1 — 2 years experience in Vendor Relationship Management, IT Governance or Procurement areas with interest or knowledge in IT
- 1 — 2 years experience Financial Management (preferable)
- 1 — 2 years experience in IT environment (preferable)
- 1 - 2 years in Contract Management

3. Tech skills
- Good analytical skills and attention to detail
- Excellent MS Office skills, in particular Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Proficient in English, both verbal and written
- Medium to High level understanding of commercial contracts or IT contracts
- Knowledge of Vendor Management tools

4. Non tech skills
- Ability to deliver credible insights through work products and communication
- Ability to work independently with little direction
- Capable of managing multiple time sensitive priorities simultaneously
- Detail-oriented; organized in approach and in documentation
- Ability to work well in a virtual team environment
- Consistently shows urgency, courtesy and patience
- Exceptional communication skills
- Capacity to analyze at deep level and connect data from different sources to drive actionable decisions
- Proactive attitude and results oriented
- Open to learning new skills
- Experience building relationships, negotiating, and influencing key stakeholders, internal and external partners to drive decisions
- High level of commitment & resilience

5. Competencies
- Ability to interact with key stakeholders and communicate persuasively in a multi-functional environment
- Ability to organize and prioritize work and meet deadlines through excellent time management and strong organizational and problem-solving skills
- Highly