About Vendor Management

The Vendor Management team is responsible for managing complex contracts, direct vendor relationships, and vendor oversight compliance. This team is responsible for providing necessary information and consultation to Senior Business Leaders & functional partners to support the management of their vendor population and enable data-based decision making.

The Role

As a Vendor Management Associate, you will be a part of the Vendor Management Team and be responsible for collaborating with Senior Business Leaders & functional partners to provide support to vendors and the firm’s strategic Senior Advisors. The position reports to the Head of Vendor Management.  The firm’s Senior Advisors are generally senior executives that bring unique skillsets to bear with the firm and the firm’s funds and investments.

Core Responsibilities

• Provide Senior Advisors support which includes:
  • Responding to inquiries
  • Onboarding new advisors
  • Reviewing and tracking invoices and developing comprehensive time tracking reports used for expense allocation purposes
• Interact and communicate directly with Senior Advisors to ensure requests, inquires, and support needs are being handled in a timely manner
• Maintain senior advisor database, contracts, and supporting documentation related to Senior Advisor approval process
• Partner with Compliance and Legal to monitor advisor contract extensions, renewals, amendments, and terminations
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with Senior Advisors and provide exceptional customer service support
• Participate in the creation of controls, checklists, policies, and procedures related to Senior Advisors and Vendor Management processes
• Serve as a central liaison between the Vendor Management Team, Investment Teams, Core Team (e.g., Legal and Compliance Tax, Technology) and other key stakeholders to execute and streamline the Senior Advisor process
• Manage ad hoc miscellaneous projects as necessary (process improvements, internal audits, regulatory support)

What We Value

• Highly motivated, entrepreneurial, and team-oriented candidates with strong project management and organization skills
• Commercial and results orientated
• Team orientation and influencing skills
• High trust and integrity
• Strategic / entrepreneurial mindset
• Strong interpersonal and external communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• 4-6 years of proven experience in vendor management
• Self-starter who requires little direction
• Ability to multi-task and maintain composure in a high-volume environment
• Strong sense of urgency; ability to execute quickly and efficiently with strong attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities
• Structured problem solver who is able to synthesize sophisticated information from a variety of sources into implementable recommendations and solutions
• Ability to collaborate effectively across multiple teams
• Strong prioritization and project management skills
• Comfort working in a high growth, iterative environment

About Sixth Street

Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm founded in 2009. Our long-term oriented, highly flexible capital base and "One Team" cultural philosophy allow us to invest thematically across sectors, geographies, and asset classes.

We aren’t looking for any single type of person. Our strength is in our team, a collection of people from different backgrounds and with their own perspectives, united in the mission of being the world’s best investment firm. 

From how we conduct business to how we engage in our communities, everything we do at Sixth Street is rooted in our commitment to our core principles: 

• Cross-Platform: We think across the business and avoid silos at all costs
• Responsibility: We are accountable for our business, our team, and our communities
• Ethical: We are ethical and direct in word and deed
• Action: We initiate, execute and deliver results
• Teamwork: We are better together
• Entrepreneurship: We seek to innovate both inside and outside our business

For more information, visit the Sixth Street Careers site or follow us on LinkedIn.

Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer and we encourage people from underrepresented backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, genetic history, marital status, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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