Vice President, TPO Vendor Manager - Chase Travel

Join a team where you can build strong supplier partnerships while helping manage risk, resilience, and regulatory readiness. You’ll work across functions to keep third-party engagements running smoothly and governed throughout their lifecycle.

As aVice President, TPO Vendor Manager inChase Travel, you will coordinate onboarding, due diligence, contract lifecycle activity, and ongoing oversight for a portfolio of supplier engagements. You’ll help ensure suppliers are managed in line with internal standards, regulatory expectations, and operational resilience needs. You’ll partner closely with stakeholders to identify risks, drive remediation, and support audit and exam readiness.

Job responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of third-party supplier engagements from onboarding through termination, ensuring supplier engagements meet internal TPO standards, policies, and governance requirements.
• Maintain accurate supplier inventory records and complete portfolio documentation, monitoring portfolio health, emerging risks, and remediation progress.
• Coordinate onboarding activities, including required risk assessments and due diligence packages.
• Drive cross-functional reviews and document inputs and approvals across key partner teams
• Support and facilitate engagement and inputs from FVA, Information Security, Privacy, Compliance, Architecture, Legal, and other review teams as needed.
• Support contract lifecycle activities including negotiations, renewals, amendments, and terminations.
• Confirm contractual obligations align with applicable policy and regulatory requirements.
• Track renewal timelines and proactively manage remediation and exit activities.
• Identify and manage third-party operational, compliance, cybersecurity, concentration, and resilience risks, driving remediation and supporting audit, exam, and ongoing regulatory readiness compliance.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for business owners and supplier stakeholders, building strong internal and external partnerships while influencing cross-functional decisions and presenting risks, recommendations, and portfolio updates to senior leadership.
• Partner with Finance (the function responsible for ongoing sub-processor relationship management) to support the recurring process that ensures contractual commitments are met, including compliance monitoring, record updates, and coordination with internal teams.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of proven experience in vendor management, supplier governance, third-party risk management, or operational resilience
• Working knowledge of regulatory requirements that impact third-party supplier relationships
• Experience managing complex supplier portfolios and remediation activities
• Strong contract governance and lifecycle management capability
• Ability to interpret and apply risk assessments and due diligence outputs to support decisions
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across multiple teams
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-ready updates
• Strong analytical, organizational, and project management skills

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• People leadership experience, including coaching, developing talent, and leading through influence across cross-functional teams
• Experience coordinating reviews across information security, privacy, compliance, architecture, legal, and financial viability partners
• Experience supporting audit and exam response activities related to third-party engagements
• Experience building portfolio dashboards, metrics, and risk reporting for senior stakeholders
• Familiarity with supplier exit planning and operational resilience considerations

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are not able to provide immigration sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. Final job grade level and corporate title will be determined at time of offer and may differ from this posting. This role does not provide relocation assistance, so all candidates must be local to the work locations listed in the job posting or willing to relocate on their own immediately upon hire.