Job Summary The primary responsibility of the CREVendorManager is todevelopandmaintainvendormanagementgovernance, policy,toolsand standards to enable effective and efficient vendor management in CRE (Corporate Real Estate). The CRE Vendor Manager will be the main interface between Equinix CRE and the vendors supporting CRE and manage vendor relationships with the top 20 vendors.

This roleis based inWarsaw/Amsterdam or Bangaloreoffice. There will be daily contact withAMERoperations team.

Desired Behaviors

- Business Savy: an ability to navigate the diverse cultures, backgrounds, and politics of our diverse global employee base.Demonstrated ability toidentify, analyze, and solve problems with sound judgment, strong interpersonal skills, andcollaborativestyle
- Model our Equinix culture and values, actively encourage the inclusivity, wellness, sustainability, and growth of our employees and operations
- Relationship Management: Build andmaintaina high trust team environment.Communicate openly and authentically.Establish andmaintainsuccessful working relationships with stakeholders, as well asappropriate vendorsand corporate client groups. Partner with counterparts inFinance, General Counsel, andProcurement providingcross-functional representation for CRE
- Flexibility and comfort withambiguity. Opennessto new and innovative ideas and the ability to manage change
- An ability to make the implicit more explicit, more tangible, or better understood.To takea big picture approach andconsiderthe ramifications of decisions on variousconstituencies.Strong leadership profile,demonstratingself-confidence and enthusiasm, customer service focused
- Intuitive about people; creative about how toidentifyand implementnew approachesto address peoples needs and support the growth and sustainability of the business

Responsibilities

Opportunity Development

- Collect, sort, categorize, aggregate and identify patterns and differentiating attributes of officespendacross functions to influence resourcing decisions and drive economies of scale
- Analyze scope and service provision to standardize service delivery and customer experience
- Collate across geographies or categories to deliver savings, improved terms, fewer vendors, and higher quality products and services

Policy, Compliance and Risk Management
- Supports the development and maintenance of standard Vendor Management operating policies and procedures,toolsand templates to ensure compliance and sourcing excellence
- Acts as change agent for any compliance or current policy rollouts, including training andcommunications to the function
- Ensures CREs adherence to company risk standards
- Liaise with the Equinix CRE Business contract manager, Equinix Legal and the vendor to negotiate and reach agreement on contractual terms and conditions and agreement amendments
- Uses all ofappropriate contractingtemplates




- Uses tools to prove, track and report compliance
- Compiles and manages CRE vendor database (to includekey dates, contract status and spend)

ChangeManagementand Communication
- Manages communication andvendor managementtraining program forCREW
- Creates high quality and compelling presentations to communicate the Vendor Management priorities and processes
- Constructsaction proposals based on analysis of relevant data
- Maintains relationship with Regional Procurement where vendors are shared between Ops and CRE
- Adheres to Equinix Generative AI guidelines in deploying artificial intelligence resources for pattern recognition, workflow enhancement, and other common tasks as a way to augment, and not substitute, the Vendor Managers original work product.

Metrics
- Works with vendors to jointly design, develop, install and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to effectively measure, manage, and visually show the impact and value of the vendors products and services to CRE
- Manages the standard definition and computational methodology of all Procurement KPIs/metrics
- Manages the process and system to accurately collect, normalize and calculate all metrics by region,commodityor cost center organization
- Supports the development and maintenance of processes and systems to easily gather andmaintainsavings pipelines by region,commodityor cost center organization
- Ensures data integrity and accurate measurement of savings as defined by Finance and Procurement standards
- Supports the coordination of CRE participation in benchmarking studies in conjunction with FPA
- Compares the performance of key CRE vendors as measured against the best-in-class services provided to other organizations and advises on improvement opportunities and the incremental cost and benefit of making a change.

Supplier Management
- Ensures vendor performance is consistent with agreed contract parameters
- Acts as Category Manager forgivencategories, approving/declining requests for new vendors within these categories
- Reviews and validates invoices and manages purchase orders POs and payments for top 20 vendors
- Ensures all vendors who perform Medium andHigh-riskwork are aware of the RAMS and PTW proceduresrequired
- Participatesin key suppliers'' quarterly business reviews (QBRs),integrating KPIs into QBRs to drive continuous improvement
- Leadscontractlifecyclegovernance (renewals,renegotiations)for top 20vendors




- Managescorrectiveactions andimprovement plansforunderperformingvendors
- At the request of the Sourcing/Procurement function, the vendor manager will participate in and contribute to the planning, creation, documentation, and launching of RFIs (requests for information) and RFPs (requests to proposals) for key commodities
- Reads, evaluates, and identifies anomalies in vendor invoices, accompanying income statements, and other financial reports used by the vendor to determine its bill amount
- At the request of the Sourcing/Procurement function, the vendor manager will participate in and contribute to RFP proposal review and bid-leveling processes supporting a given sourcing event
- At the request of the Sourcing/Procurement function, the vendor manager will participate in and contribute to pre-award negotiations, dispute resolution negotiations and contract amendment negotiations

Sustainable Procurement
- Engage suppliersrepresenting66% of Equinix supplier base to set their own carbon emission reduction targets by year-end, 2026and to reduce absolute emissions from fuel and gas activities by 50% by 2030 from a 2019 baseline year

Qualifications

- A business degree in general business administration, finance, procurement and supply chain management, economics, or a relevant and related subject
- A demonstrated understanding of the economics of business, how commercial businesses operate, generate income, and incur expenses.
- Demonstrated experience developing and installing business performance measurements such as key performance indicators (KPIs), efficiency goals, financial performance metrics, and other similar targets
- Proven experience leading or co-leading the contract negotiation of a large supply agreement
- Proficient in English Language (written and spoken)
- Experience in either an outsourced or inhouse Facilities Management department
- Proven years of experience as a working operative in a procurement, sourcing, or similar supply chain management role
- Experience with collecting, validating, normalizing, and organizing data to support decision-making
- Verifiable ability to interpret, analyze, and diagnose disparate data elements to draw conclusions and/or identify patterns for use in trend analysis and mapping
- Prior experience actively engaging and working with global residents of non-home countries (physical engagement is preferred however virtual engagement is acceptable)
- Ability to independently develop and manage resources and programs
- Demonstrated experience managing conflict, communicating requirements during contestable negotiations with vendors, and resolving tense disputes
- Effective communication skills timelydelivery of professional communications to vendors, customers and team members
- Experience with supply chain and spend management platforms such as Coupa, SAP Ariba, and NetSuite

📌 Corporate Real Estate Manager (Delivery) (Bengaluru)
🏢 Equinix
📍 Bengaluru