Position Overview

ABOUT APOLLO

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade to private equity with a focus on three investing strategies: yield, hybrid, and equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes.

OUR PURPOSE AND CORE VALUES

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.

The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.

A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

Outperform expectations

Challenge Convention

Champion Opportunity

Lead responsibly

Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

OUR BENEFITS

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family. Please reach out to your Human Capital Business Partner for more detailed information on specific benefits.

The Associate Director will be responsible for the procurement and strategic development of services and solutions to meet the company’s explosive growth, ideally with five years of expertise in procurement concepts, process, policies and category management expertise in technology (IT), potentially including purchasing of hardware, software, telecommunications, SaaS and services.  The individual will be responsible for the management of new / existing supplier relationships through contract execution, negotiations, renewal, and termination.  Identifying cost savings opportunities as they arise. The successful candidate will have experience in negotiating with strategic suppliers, reviewing agreements, have knowledge of software license concepts. This individual will participate in cross-functional projects  to drive cost improvement and create a value proposition for the enterprise, as such the ability to communicate, organize projects, and lead diverse stakeholders through the procurement process is paramount for success.  

Risk management is at the core of what we do, as such Vendor Governance is woven into the fabric of procurement and strategic sourcing efforts.  The successful candidate may be called upon to assist the vendor on-boarding process, annual diligence review process, raise awareness with the vendor regarding identified concerns, and own action items to remediate identified risks.

Role and responsibilities:

• Engage in all aspects of day-to-day activities and deliverables of the Vendor Management function, encompassing:

• Ensure consistency in the way the vendors are engaged across the firm

• Establish and maintain supplier agreements and supplier relationships to support the firm.

• Ensure information is accurately and correctly obtained within the Contract Repository.

• Appropriately Manage contract renewals and terminations.

• Review contractual language to ensure it meets company guidelines and work with legal team on identifying and remediating issues within contracts.

• Work in a team environment to implement sourcing practices and strategies in correlation with market trends, business need, and the competitive landscape

• Assist business owners with requirement definition and how to strategically engage the marketplace to see those requirements fulfilled.

• Suggest and help to implement process automation/transformation effort in Vendor Management, including preparation of process documentation.

• Collaborate with the team members to conduct day-to-day activities and deliverables.

• Able to cross-train other personnel on major tasks across the shared Finance Shared Services functions.

• Take initiative and manage ad-hoc projects as needed.

• Able to evaluate what additional information is needed from a request to execute tasks required to bring a transaction to conclusion.

• Look at Automation Opportunities to reduce manual effort that makes the process more efficient.

• Basic understanding of contract terms, conditions and structure with an ability to compare/contrast supplier contract offers to show advantages and disadvantages of supplier contract offers.

• Ability to research the markets they are responsible for to show how supplier offers compete within their market to advise stakeholders on best purchase options

• Ability to identify and remediate supplier performance issues on behalf of their stakeholders

• Collaborates with Vendor Management team and stakeholders to identify best practice solutions for the company

Qualifications & Experience

• 9+ years of experience in Vendor Management, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing or other related function, including review, audit, processing, approval and executionof agreements, administering initiation and review of vendor risk assessments and due diligence, and enforcing and communicating Vendor Management policy and provisions to employees and other internal stakeholders.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills. Ability to partner with others and work collaboratively and professionally in the organization to ensure roles and responsibilities are clear and metrics are in place across the control structure.

• Strong orientation to plan and implement changes to support a transformation agenda of the operations function.

• Strong analytical skills, able to quickly grasp Vendor Management policy provisions, process implications and recommend tactical activities for ongoing improvement of the function and its operational effectiveness.

• Strong excel skills and ability to perform simple automation on excel is an added advantage.

• Highly organized, proactive and efficient in managing and following up on multiple priorities simultaneously.

Apollo provides equal employment opportunities regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, veteran status, gender/sex or sexual orientation, or any other criterion or circumstance protected by applicable law, ordinance, or regulation. The above criteria are intended to be used as a guide only – candidates who do not meet all the above criteria may still be considered if they are deemed to have relevant experience/ equivalent levels of skill or knowledge to fulfil the requirements of the role. Any job offer will be conditional upon and subject to satisfactory reference and background screening checks, all necessary corporate and regulatory approvals or certifications as required from time to time, and entering into definitive contractual documentation satisfactory to Apollo.