Vendor Coordinator

**Vendor Coordinator 4306**
**Colombia (remote)**
**About RWS**:
RWS Holdings plc is a unique world-leading provider of technology-enabled language, content and intellectual property services. Through content transformation and multilingual data analysis, our unique combination of technology and cultural expertise helps our clients to grow by ensuring they are understood anywhere, in any language. Our purpose is **unlocking global understanding**. By combining cultural understanding, client understanding and technical understanding, our services and technology assist our clients to acquire and retain customers, deliver engaging user experiences, maintain compliance and gain actionable insights into their data and content. Our clients include 90 of the globe’s top 100 brands, the top 20 pharmaceutical companies and 19 of the top 20 patent filers worldwide. Our client base spans Europe, Asia Pacific and North and South America. We work in the automotive, chemical, financial, legal, medical, pharmaceutical, technology and telecommunications sectors, which we serve from 80+offices across five continents.
Founded in 1958, RWS is headquartered in the UK and publicly listed on AIM, the London Stock Exchange regulated market (RWS.L).

**RWS Language & Content Technology division**: offering the latest innovations in language and content management technology to help enterprises engage with global audiences - across any device. Our language technology enables enterprises to automate and manage the entire content lifecycle. And our web content and structured content management technology supports the creation, translation and delivery of global content at scale - in ways that are efficient, secure and compliant. The combination of our language and content technology - enhanced with state-of-the art Machine Learning - offers the capability to manage the ‘end-to-end’ translation supply chain.
**About The Role**:
Builds and coordinates supplier solutions in line with company strategy as defined by Senior Leadership Team, Vendor Relations Management

**Responsibilities**:

- Identify suitable suppliers based on production/GVRM/VRM/sales requirements
- Ensure all required information is entered into information systems and make sure information systems are always up-to date
- Test and qualify suppliers in cooperation with MLS
- Contract and develop supplier solutions for languages in alignment with Moravia business requirements
- Communicate with suppliers, answer queries, provide support if needed
- Track new services offered by suppliers
- Negotiate supplier prices on yearly basis (and/or account/project basis)
- Coordinate supplier resources for production
- Act as escalation point for PMs regarding supplier related issues
- Monitor suppliers' performance

**Requirements**:

- University degree preferred
- Previous experience in an international environment
- Service purchasing or procurement
- Loc experience preferred
- Upper Intermediate level of English
- Excel, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint
- Navision is an advantage
- Focus on Business
- Openness to change
- Proactivity and involvement
- Communication and collaboration
- Focus on Solution and Effectiveness

**Life at RWS - **We work hard together to deliver for our customers; our expertise, professionalism and determination to never let others down drives us to be passionate and serious about what we do, deliver customer value, yet always adding a human touch.
**RWS embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunity, we are an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind**. RWS is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at RWS are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, religion, nationality, ethnicity, sex, age, disability or sexual orientation. RWS will not tolerate discrimination based on any of these characteristics.
**Recruitment Agencies**:RWS Group PLC does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward any unsolicited resumes to any RWS employees. Any unsolicited resume received will be treated as the property of RWS and Terms & Conditions associated with the use of such resume will be considered null and void.

Category
Vendor Management/ Supply Chain

Job Type
Full-time