Job Description

At LinkedIn, we trust each other to do our best work where it works best for us and our teams. This role offers a hybrid work option, meaning you can both work from home and commute to a LinkedIn office, depending on what’s best for you and when it is important for your team to be together.  

This role can be based in either New York City or Chicago.

We are looking for a Business Lead – Vendor Strategy to join our team in building a scaled global sales and support organization. As part of our Global Business Organization, the operational services team is responsible for establishing, managing and improving our outsourcing teams that contribute to a scaled sales organization.  

  
Responsibilities:  

• Help develop a world class outsourcing, vendor- and location strategy to ensure we have the right direction and internal organization to reach our goals  
• Innovate and lead our internal framework and standardisations like benchmarking, risk management, running RFPs, training PMs and stakeholders 
• Help create and optimize the dashboards and reports around the performance of all vendor teams, across regions, across vendors and across programs 
• Use their extensive knowledge about LinkedIn’s vendor programs and Microsoft’s best practices to help build vendor standardisations to help scale programs 
• Execute projects that require coordination within the internal team and vendors to ensure trackers, documentations and processes are updated and followed.  
• Program manage the extended strategy team placed with our vendor.  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:  

• 5+ years in BPO and Managed services industry
• 3+ years in Strategy & Operations, Scaled Operations, or Vendor Management

Preferred Qualifications:  

• Experience in independently leading large projects  
• Certification in project/program management and accolades for delivering large projects  
• Ability to interact comfortably with executives, clients, outsourcing partner leadership and internal departments of all kinds and shapes  
• Proficiency in advertising sales and CXM 

Suggested Skills:  

• Strategy
• Operations
• Vendor Management

LinkedIn is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The pay range for this role is $112,000 to  $182,000. Actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

The total compensation package for this position may also include annual performance bonus, stock, benefits and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans. For additional information, visit: https://careers.linkedin.com/benefits.