Metro New York & Southern Connecticut

About Fordham:

Department: Strategic Sourcing

Campus: Rose Hill (RH) - Bronx

Position Summary:

Essential Functions:

• Assures contract compliance with the terms and conditions of the retail services agreements in relation to operational items such as operating hours, merchandising, pricing, marketing, customer service, product quality and technology through document review, physical inspection, website content, and customer interaction.
• Acts as contract negotiator and contract manager to ensure that University interests are aggressively advocated for, protected, and contracted services meet the short-term as well as long-term strategic needs.
• Ensures accurate financial reporting, timely sales/commission/reconciliation reports and payments, invoicing, chargeback, physical inventory and other tracking, as required.
• Collaborates with vendors to ensure continued development of programs, increased business growth and high levels of customer service to University community.
• Reviews financial performance relative to budget and examines opportunities for further business development. Assists in the management and development of the University's licensing program.
• Acts as a catalyst for generating new revenue streams and collaborating with various on-campus entities such as the retail store, athletics and legal counsel office.
• Negotiates campus beverage, vending and other product contracts.
• Researches product lines best suited for higher education retail operations, develops pricing and marketing strategies, negotiates financial reward for exclusivity provisions, monitors volume sales versus contract volume hurdle requirements, ensures proceeds are dispersed appropriately, works with company account managers to develop and monitor the success of sales channels and the efficiency of daily delivery and stocking services.
• Assists the Director in providing direction, training and guidance to Office Services staff; assigns, reviews, and evaluates work of Office Services staff.
• Acts as a liaison and point of contact on a day-to-day basis for the various business services partners on campus to maintain existing operations.
• Reviews and approves expenses posted against the budget and ensures that revenues are posted when finalized.
• Ensures prompt and accurate payments to vendors as identified in the various vendor contracts, as well as timely and accurate payments from vendors as identified in the various contracts.
• Monitors preventive and routine maintenance schedules of University equipment and facilities used by vendors.
• Oversees processes and communication/marketing campaigns between suppliers, students, the administration, the community, and parents.
• Participates in University and campus community relations by representing department at meetings and serving on committees as needed.
• Provides direction and oversight to University printing and basic design operations.
• Provides ongoing two-way collaborative communication channels so that input from customer segments is heard and analyzed and new initiatives are discussed ensuring not only a visionary and innovative but also a responsive atmosphere in each unit and Office Services as a whole.
• Determines and negotiates appropriate financial return for each operation. Identifies management staffing required and participates in the hiring of all key management hires.
• Assists in the advancement of sustainability projects.
• Establishes new goals in response to emerging campus and community priorities.
• Advances opportunities where the Fordham community can join in the work of promoting environmental justice and sustainability.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in business management or other related degree required; or, in lieu of the degree, a minimum of four years of related experience required.
• Entrepreneurial experience, ideally in a college/university or similar environment.
• 5-7 years of professional experience, with evidence of increasing professional responsibility.
• Strategic and analytical thinking skills to create and implement new processes, organizational ways of working, and implementation of new systems to help the University achieve operational excellence.
• Experience with RFPs, negotiations and contract management for a broad range of services
• Proven interpersonal skills, including excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively negotiate contracts and serve the university community at large.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of licensing programs; marketing principles and practices.
• Experience managing and directing teams of at least 5 members.
• Passion/interest in race and gender equity. Act Inclusively.Ensure that actions and behaviors are respectful; show empathy and treat others with dignity. Leverage capabilities and insights of individuals with diverse perspectives, abilities and motivation.
• Highly proficient experience with Microsoft Excel.
• Unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity,
  
  

Minimum Salary: $105,000

Maximum Salary: $115,000

About Fordham University

Fordham Founded in 1841, Fordham is the Jesuit University of New York, offering an exceptional education distinguished by the Jesuit tradition to more than 16,000 students in its 9 colleges and schools. It has residential campuses in the Bronx and Manhattan, a campus in West Harrison, N.Y., the Louis Calder Center Biological Field Station in Armonk, N.Y., and the London Centre in the United kingdom.

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