Supplier Performance Review
Director · Procurement & Vendor Manager · Hybrid · Costa Mesa
- Company
- Public-sector services provider serving cities · 5,000+ employeesCL-83348 · based in Paris
- Where
- Hybrid · Costa Mesa
- Format
- Regular role
- Time needed
- 1–2 h a week
- Start
- Starts within 7 days
- Level
- Director · 10-15 years
- When you work
- Early mornings1 h a week overlap with PT
The company is already looking at 3 profiles for this task. It is still open: new profiles are added to the shortlist until the company decides.
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About this task
This Public-sector services provider serving cities (5,000+ employees) is looking for a director Procurement & Vendor Manager for an ongoing part-time engagement of 1–2 h a week. Scorecards against service levels and complaints.
The person who did this left, and the company would rather bring in an experienced part-timer than rush a permanent hire. It supplies the public sector, so documentation follows contract rules.
The team sits in Costa Mesa. Everything can be done remotely; an occasional visit is welcome and never required for the first month. The company prefers early-morning hours, before a normal working day starts. About 1 hour a week should overlap with the team's day (PT).
What you deliver
- Prepare quarterly scorecards for 20 suppliers and hold review calls with the three weakest.
- Work logged against the agreed list, so the company contact can see progress without a call
- A short handover note when the engagement pauses or ends
- A written update every Monday with what was done, what is next and anything blocked
What a week looks like
- Daily: one hour at a time that suits you, inside the agreed window
- Friday: ten-minute sync if anything is blocked
- Monday: weekly summary posted to the shared thread
Duration: 8 weeks, renewable. Accepted when the company contact confirms the deliverable against the written checklist. One round of edits is included.
Tools
Who fits
- 10-15 years of hands-on work as a Procurement & Vendor Manager, or the equivalent mix of roles
- Comfortable working in Excel and Coupa
- Your own work history stays private; the company sees a first name, your field and a rate
Nice to have
- Has worked with a distributed team across time zones
- Comfortable explaining numbers or decisions to a non-specialist reader
Not included
- On-call availability outside the agreed window
- Anything that needs a signature in your own name unless the brief says so
- Work outside the scope written in the brief; extra items are quoted separately
How you get paid
- The company prepays Deftridge before your first hour, so payment does not depend on a late invoice.
- Deftridge pays you in USD after the company confirms the hours or the deliverable. The payment date is written in your task agreement.
- You work as an independent contractor: you report your own income, and your recruiter sends the statements your accountant needs.
- You never chase the company. Questions about money go to Deftridge.
What happens after you say you're interested
- Within one working dayA recruiter writes to you to confirm your hours and the rate you want.
- You agree the rateYou and the recruiter fix an exact rate inside the company's range. You decide whether to go ahead.
- With your written OKThe company sees the anonymous profile below. Most companies answer within three working days.
- StartYou sign the task agreement and the company's confidentiality terms through Deftridge, and begin on the date above.
What the company sees about you
First name, field, experience, tools and the hours you offer. Not your surname, your employer or your contact details.
- Experience
- 10-15 years in operations & assistance
- Tools
- Excel, Coupa
- Offers
- 2 hours a week, weekday evenings
- Rate
- $136 an hour, agreed with the recruiter
How this rate compares
The midpoint of this range, $136 an hour, is above the median director Procurement & Vendor Manager rate in California ($135). The shaded band is the 25th to 75th percentile of the market.
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Questions about pay and privacy
The rules are the same for every task. Pricing explains the 15% fee, prepayment and when you are paid; How it works covers matching, what the company sees and side work next to a job.
CL-83348 is the Deftridge code for this company. Its name is shared only after you agree to an introduction, and you decide whether to go ahead.