Manage vendor relationships, facilitate proposals, monitor service levels, oversee projects, and support outsourcing initiatives for the China Market.
Description and Requirements
Internal
• Drive solutions and resolve issues related to external vendors while managing the needs of a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate vendor proposals and manage vendor dependencies for key MetLife projects.
• Perform ongoing monitoring of service levels and operational metrics to ensure vendors meet business needs.
• Liaise with the APAC region, specifically for China Marketfor all Vendor Management related tasks and relationships.
The incumbent is required to work with Internal & Vendor stakeholders on the following and act as a Relationship Manager for the China market.
The brief tasks included as part of this overall role is to Govern the below.
• Provide ongoing vendor oversight including performance management, business reviews, contract change management and issue escalation.
• Oversee projects that sometimes span across multiple areas, functions, and/or lines of business.
• Determine requirements to address complex and varied business needs for overseeing complex vendors.
• Research and request vendor proposals and develop service level agreements that meet business needs.
• Support new outsourcing initiatives.
• Support the resolution of vendor risk issues.
• Participate and Lead any Transformation or technology related initiatives in the APAC region.
External
• Drive solutions and resolve issues related to external vendors while managing the needs of a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate vendor proposals and manage vendor dependencies for key MetLife projects.
• Perform ongoing monitoring of service levels and operational metrics to ensure vendors meet business needs.
• Liaise with the APAC region, specifically for China Market for all Vendor Management related tasks and relationships.
The incumbent is required to work with Internal & Vendor stakeholders on the following and act as a Relationship Manager for the China market.
The brief tasks included as part of this overall role is to Govern the below.
• Provide ongoing vendor oversight including performance management, business reviews, contract change management and issue escalation.
• Oversee projects that sometimes span across multiple areas, functions, and/or lines of business.
• Determine requirements to address complex and varied business needs for overseeing complex vendors.
• Research and request vendor proposals and develop service level agreements that meet business needs.
• Support new outsourcing initiatives.
• Support the resolution of vendor risk issues.
• Participate and Lead any Transformation or technology related initiatives in the APAC region.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
Internal
• Drive solutions and resolve issues related to external vendors while managing the needs of a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate vendor proposals and manage vendor dependencies for key MetLife projects.
• Perform ongoing monitoring of service levels and operational metrics to ensure vendors meet business needs.
• Liaise with the APAC region, specifically for China Marketfor all Vendor Management related tasks and relationships.
The incumbent is required to work with Internal & Vendor stakeholders on the following and act as a Relationship Manager for the China market.
The brief tasks included as part of this overall role is to Govern the below.
• Provide ongoing vendor oversight including performance management, business reviews, contract change management and issue escalation.
• Oversee projects that sometimes span across multiple areas, functions, and/or lines of business.
• Determine requirements to address complex and varied business needs for overseeing complex vendors.
• Research and request vendor proposals and develop service level agreements that meet business needs.
• Support new outsourcing initiatives.
• Support the resolution of vendor risk issues.
• Participate and Lead any Transformation or technology related initiatives in the APAC region.
External
• Drive solutions and resolve issues related to external vendors while managing the needs of a variety of internal stakeholders.
• Facilitate vendor proposals and manage vendor dependencies for key MetLife projects.
• Perform ongoing monitoring of service levels and operational metrics to ensure vendors meet business needs.
• Liaise with the APAC region, specifically for China Market for all Vendor Management related tasks and relationships.
The incumbent is required to work with Internal & Vendor stakeholders on the following and act as a Relationship Manager for the China market.
The brief tasks included as part of this overall role is to Govern the below.
• Provide ongoing vendor oversight including performance management, business reviews, contract change management and issue escalation.
• Oversee projects that sometimes span across multiple areas, functions, and/or lines of business.
• Determine requirements to address complex and varied business needs for overseeing complex vendors.
• Research and request vendor proposals and develop service level agreements that meet business needs.
• Support new outsourcing initiatives.
• Support the resolution of vendor risk issues.
• Participate and Lead any Transformation or technology related initiatives in the APAC region.
About MetLife
Recognized on Fortune magazine's list of the 2025 "World's Most Admired Companies" and Fortune World's 25 Best Workplaces™ for 2024, MetLife , through its subsidiaries and affiliates, is one of the world's leading financial services companies; providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to individual and institutional customers. With operations in more than 40 markets, we hold leading positions in the United States, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.
Our purpose is simple - to help our colleagues, customers, communities, and the world at large create a more confident future. United by purpose and guided by empathy, we're inspired to transform the next century in financial services.
At MetLife, it's #AllTogetherPossible . Join us!
#BI-Hybrid
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