Senior Associate, Vendor Manager - Fast Bank Operations (hybrid)

Capital One Capital One · Banking · McLean, VA

This role is a Vendor Manager within Capital One's Retail Bank Operations, focusing on managing external vendor relationships, ensuring compliance with corporate policies, optimizing vendor resources, and mitigating risk. Responsibilities include process and project management, vendor and equipment oversight, and driving efficiency and value delivery. The role requires experience in process improvement or project management and familiarity with office suites.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develop, maintain, and align documented procedures with corporate policies.
  2. Serve as the primary point of contact for frontline equipment (e.g., Ricoh Printers) and guide business divisions.
  3. Optimize vendor spend, manage contracts/invoices, and oversee equipment inventory.
  4. Identify and implement process improvements through cross-team collaboration.
  5. Create and obtain approval for the yearly vendor budget.

Skills

Required

  • High School Diploma, GED, or Equivalent Certification
  • 3 years of Process Improvement or Project Management experience
  • 1 year of experience using Google Suite or Microsoft Office

Nice to have

  • Bachelor’s Degree or military experience
  • 4 years of Process Improvement or Project Management Experience
  • 2 year experience working in Jira, Confluence, Google Suite, or Google Data Studio
  • PMP, BPM, Lean, Agile or Six Sigma certification

What the JD emphasized

  • managing external vendor relationships
  • escalating urgent issues
  • handling ServiceNow tickets
  • ensuring compliance with corporate policies
  • developing and maintaining documented procedures
  • reviewing vendor invoices for accuracy against the budget
  • optimize vendor resources and operations to mitigate risk and reduce costs
  • drive value and efficiency by enhancing well managed processes
  • providing exceptional experiences for our customers and associates
  • frontline equipment
  • vendor relationships at branch/café locations
  • efficient onsite services
  • coordinating equipment logistics
  • optimize vendor spend
  • manage contracts/invoices
  • oversee equipment inventory
  • Drive simplification in supply ordering, vendor performance, and capabilities
  • Manage the Coupa catalog
  • monitor budget
  • optimize vendor resources/operations
  • mitigate risk and reduce costs
  • Provide branch support
  • escalation for vendor issues
  • supply ordering
  • branch consolidation support
  • Identify and implement process improvements
  • cross-team collaboration
  • Collect and analyze data
  • ensure frontline device efficiency
  • Drive value and efficiency
  • enhancing well-managed processes
  • ensuring excellent customer and associate experiences
  • Support frontline operations
  • ensure well-managed process execution meets internal/external needs
  • Create and obtain approval for the yearly vendor budget