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Join a well-established vendor management team driving key business relationships with business partners across Ameriprise Bank and affiliates of Ameriprise. This vendor management position will work closely with vendors, affiliates, and business partners to deliver third party and affiliate risk management oversight. The successful candidate for this role is a vendor and risk management subject matter expert with strong communication skills, the ability to function in a fast-paced environment, ability to collaborate cross-functionally and serve as owner of our Affiliates program. Key Responsibilities: Affiliates Program Manage an inventory of intercompany agreements and internal businesses in partnership with Finance. Identify and execute cost savings and cost avoidance through the contract renewal cycle. Own and manage all aspects of affiliate agreements including new requests, contract amendments, renewals, contract terminations and reporting. Maintain relationships with affiliate business owners, understanding affiliate regulatory requirements and manage associated reporting. Work closely with internal Business Partners, Legal, Finance, Enterprise Procurement, and Compliance to manage affiliates deliverables. Continue to refine the affiliates process management, and risk management activities. Vendor Management Vendor lifecycle including but not limited to: onboarding, oversight monitoring and issues remediation. Ensuring compliance with the Interagency Guidance on Third-Party Relationships: Risk Management. Maintain working relationships with Business Partners and Third-party Vendors to understand business requirements in delivery of products and services. Participate in sourcing and procurement processes related to new contracts, renewals, and amendments. Advise line of business on opportunities to avoid or mitigate risk. Engage Business Partners, and vendors on risk management deliverables to ensure compliance to Enterprise, Bank and Regulatory requirements. Adhere to the reporting requirements. Collect data to develop vendor scorecards that track performance, work directly with vendors on areas needing resolution and monitor remediation. Continuous updating of Archer and Vendor Management Tool on vendors requirements, risk assessments and questionnaires, performance scorecards and evidential documents. Lead governance meetings on service level metrics, issue management and contribute to an ongoing process of evaluating service quality. Participate in Vendor Risk Assessment calls and manage all subsequent actions with vendors. Conduct governance meetings with line of business and vendors. Manage third party vendor issues and communicate appropriately within the business. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and 5-7 years of third-party risk management work experience. Proven track record of understanding third party risk management. Strong knowledge of banking, products and services. Strong communication and influencing skills across senior leadership levels. Tenacious self-starter able to work to a demanding schedule and deliver to specific deadlines. Strong Excel skills and experience with Word, Powerpoint and Teams. About Our Company We're a diversified financial services leader with more than $1 trillion in assets under management and administration. Our team of 20,000 people in more than 20 countries advise, manage and protect the assets and income of more than 2 million individual, small business and institutional clients. We are a long-standing leader in financial planning and advice, a global asset manager and an insurer. Our unwavering focus on our clients and strong financial foundation connects each of our unique businesses - Ameriprise Financial Services, Columbia Threadneedle Investments and RiverSource Insurance and Annuities. Here, we foster meaningful careers, invest in the future, and make a difference for clients, institutions and communities around the world. Ameriprise Financial is an equal op ortunity employer. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetic information, age, sexual orientation, citizenship, gender identity, disability, veteran status, marital status, family status or any other basis prohibited by law.