Principal Associate, Supplier Management

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA +2

This role focuses on managing relationships with third-party suppliers, ensuring compliance, managing risk, and identifying strategic opportunities for cost savings and efficiency. It involves negotiation, collaboration with internal teams and risk groups, and monitoring contractual obligations. The role is part of the Enterprise Service Management (ESM) team.

What you'd actually do

  1. Support the creation and execution of strategic and innovative solutions to support internal customers that can identify value-generating opportunities (e.g. savings, efficiencies, or revenue growth).
  2. Ability to negotiate basic contracts for a broad range of products and services for Capital One
  3. Serve as a point of contact for third parties and manage an effective governance between Capital One and assigned third parties.
  4. Ability to partner with business unit(s) and internal risk group(s) to ensure third party relationships are compliant with all relevant policies and procedures.
  5. Monitor and ensure successful delivery against third party contractual obligations

Skills

Required

  • High School Diploma, GED or Equivalent Certification
  • 3 years of experience in Relationship Management, Supplier Management, Procurement, Project Management, Process Management, or a combination of these

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree or military experience
  • 4 years of experience in Procurement, Sourcing, Operations Management, or Risk Management

What the JD emphasized

  • holistic relationship between Capital One and key third parties
  • well-managed and adaptable supply chain
  • cost, risk, and performance management-related efforts for third-party relationships
  • strategic opportunities for growth and/or greater return on investment
  • connecting with others
  • collaborating on cross-functional teams
  • negotiating deals
  • partner with business unit(s) and internal risk group(s)
  • compliant with all relevant policies and procedures
  • Risk Management
  • policy requirements for all managed third-party relationships
  • Supplier Sourcing
  • external marketplace