# C004979 Smartsourcing and Vendor Manager (NS) - TUE 28 Jul

> EMW, Inc. · Mons, Belgium (Hybrid) · Contract · Posted 2026-07-15

**Workplace:** hybrid

**Department:** AAS

## Description

**Deadline Date:** Tuesday 28 July 2026

**Requirement:** Smartsourcing and Vendor Manager

**Location:** Mons, BE

**Full Time On-Site:** No

**Time On-Site:** 80%

**Total Scope of the request (hours):** 700

**Required Start Date:** 2 September 2026

**End Contract Date:** 31 December 2026

**Required Security Clearance:** NATO SECRET

**Duties & Role:**  

Continuity management

-   Contributes to the development of continuity management plans.
-   Identifies information and communication systems that support critical business processes.
-   Coordinates the business impact analysis and the assessment of risks.
-   Coordinates the planning, designing, and testing of contingency plans.

Business situation analysis

-   Plans, manages and investigates business situation analysis where there is significant ambiguity and complexity.
-   Advises on the approach and techniques to be used for business situation analysis.
-   Ensures holistic view adopted to identify and analyse wide-ranging problems and opportunities.
-   Engages and collaborates with a wide range of stakeholders, including those at the management level.
-   Gains agreement from stakeholders to conclusions and recommendations.
-   Contributes to definition of organisational standards and guidelines for business situation analysis.
-   Develops the change management approach and a change management plan in collaboration with sponsors, users and project teams.
-   Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live.
-   Acquires change management resources and develops their capabilities to deliver the required changes.
-   Gathers feedback to allow timely improvements to the change management plan and approach.
-   Assesses risks and takes preventative action.
-   Develops and communicates tailored change management plans for senior stakeholder groups.
-   Provides guidance and makes suggestions to support change sponsors.

Supplier management

-   Develops organizational policies, standards, and guidelines to ensure effective supplier management across the integrated supply chain.
-   Defines the approach for commercial communications and the management of relationships with suppliers.
-   Establishes a positive and effective working environment with suppliers for mutual benefit.
-    Ensures that resources and tools are in place to conduct bench-marking.
-   Reviews supplier analysis and assesses effectiveness across the supply chain.
-   Manages risks and assures the quality of the services delivered by suppliers.
-   Leads the development of comprehensive stakeholder management strategies and plans.
-   Builds long-term, strategic relationships with senior stakeholders (internal and external).
-   Facilitates the engagement of stakeholders in support of the delivery of services and change projects.
-   Acts as a single point of contact for senior stakeholders, facilitating relationships between them.
-   Negotiates to ensure that stakeholders understand and agree on what will meet their needs, and that appropriate agreements are defined.
-   Oversees monitoring of relationships including lessons learned and appropriate feedback.
-   Leads actions to improve relations and open communications with and between stakeholders.
-   Trains others on evaluating products or services from multiple vendors.
-   Advises on appropriate solutions to complex multiple vendor problems.
-   Leads in the regulated use of materials and forms for the selection of products and vendors.
-   Evaluates overall considerations such as product and vendor risks, and provides recommendations.
-   Optimizes standard processes to maximize the efficiency of organizational products or services.
-   Designs and develops product and vendor selection criteria and requirements.

Vendor Management

-   Builds and maintains partnerships with multiple and/or large vendors
-   Ensures the fulfilment of report and record-keeping requirements.
-   Evaluates issues and terminates vendor relationships as appropriate; works with legal departments.
-   Monitors supplier performance; works to resolve discrepancies between performance and agreements.
-   Develops quality standards and controls for vendor selection.
-   Facilitates supplier partnering arrangements that share risk.

## Requirements

**Skills, Knowledge & Experience:**

-   The candidate must have a currently active NATO SECRET security clearance
-   A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognized/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years of directly relevant work experience.
-   Or exceptionally, the lack of a university degree may be compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency, that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in duties related to the functions;
-   A minimum of 3 years' experience in managing services and projects in a customer facing role;
-   Experience with setting and managing outsourcing plans
-   Experience with process optimization and smart sourcing projects
-   Experience leading and managing teams
-   Certified Outsourcing Professional (COP), Certified Supplier Relationship Management Professional (CSMP) or Certified Contract Management Professional (CCMP)
-   Working knowledge and experience of NATO/NCIA procurement process and regulations.
-   Prior experience of working in an international environment comprising both military and civilian elements;
-   Knowledge of NATO responsibilities and organization, including Allied Command Operations (ACO) and Allied Command Transformation (ACT) or a comparable organization

## Apply

[Apply at EMW, Inc.](https://apply.workable.com/emw/j/D5E3E2231D/apply)

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