Vendor Relations Manager

**Job Overview**:We are seeking a highly organized and proactive Vendor Relations Manager to oversee vendor relationships and coordinate service delivery. This role involves quoting and coordinating jobs, negotiating rates, managing dispatch, and ensuring high-quality outcomes. The position requires balancing customer service, vendor management, and accurate data entry while maintaining profitability.**Primary Responsibilities -****Quoting & Client Interaction**:- Support internal requests from the sales team by providing tailored solutions.- Negotiate rates with vendors in different regions and create accurate quotes for clients, ensuring a minimum 40% profit margin is maintained.- Provide quotes back to clients within 2 to 4 hours of receiving the request and follow up diligently to close the job.**Vendor Management**:- Build and maintain strong relationships with vendors, including haulers, recycling centers, liquidators, buyers, waste management companies, destruction facilities, and landfills.- Negotiate pricing and coordinate job scheduling with vendors.- Monitor job progress and ensure completion on time, including obtaining before-and-after pictures and dump receipts.**Job Coordination**:- Once a quote is accepted, coordinate with the selected vendor to schedule and ensure job completion.- Maintain clear communication with clients throughout the process, ensuring they are kept informed.**Data Entry & Systems Management**:- Use Airtable to generate quotes and ensure all job data is entered accurately.- Once a job is confirmed, trigger notifications to Slack to notify the team of the accepted and booked job.**Sourcing & Vendor Database Growth**:- During downtime, actively search for and onboard new vendors to expand the vendor database and increase the variety of options available.**Performance Metrics**:- Respond to client requests and send quotes within 4 hours.- Maintain a minimum 40% profit margin on all jobs.- Achieve an average monthly gross revenue of at least $25,000 from jobs managed.- Maintaining the vendor database, documents and qualification questions must be completed.**Qualifications**:- Proven experience in customer service, sales, or vendor management (preferably in a related industry like logistics, junk removal, or operations).- Strong negotiation and communication skills.- Highly organized and able to manage multiple tasks with attention to detail.- Comfortable using HubSpot, Airtable, and Slack; prior experience with these tools is a plus.- Ability to work independently while also collaborating with a sales team when needed.- Motivated to exceed goals and contribute to team growth.**Compensation & Performance Review**:- Starting pay is **$12/hour**.- After **3 months**, a performance review will take place based on the following scoring system:- **Score of 5**: Eligible for a **$2/hour raise**.- **Score of 4**: Eligible for a **$1.5/hour raise**.- **Score of 3**: Eligible for a **$1/hour raise**.- **Scores below 3**: No raise will be provided.**Additional Profit-Based Bonus**:- **Profit-Based Bonus**: Employees will receive a bonus based on the total profit generated from solutions they found or deals they contributed to. The bonus will be a **percentage of the total profit** from the deal, based on the following structure:- **Score of 5**:3%** of the total profit.- **Score of 4**:2%** of the total profit.- **Score of 3**:1%** of the total profit.- **Score of 2**:3%** of the total profit.- **Scores below 2**: No profit-based bonus will be provided.Pay: $185.00 - $225.00 per hourExpected hours: 40 per weekWork Location: Remote