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Vendor Relations Manager

Centene Corporation

Remote · USFull-timeSeen 2 days agoSeen in employer's feed 2 days ago

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Location
Remote · US
Schedule
Full-time
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Job overview

The Vendor Relations Manager manages relationships with delegated partners, overseeing performance standards, financial responsibility, and business solutions. The role serves as a link between partners and internal departments, facilitating services from launch through daily interactions. It includes account management, performance reporting, partner communications, complex project oversight, and ensuring accurate, timely payments.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Account ManagementHealthcareExecutive Presentations

Qualifications

Bachelor's in Business Administration, Public Administration or Related Field or Equivalent Experience5+ Years Experience

Benefits

Medical Insurance
401(k) Match
Tuition Assistance
Paid Time Off

Full job description

Business Area: Business Development, Sales & Marketing

Job Type: Full time

Position Purpose: Manages third party program relationships with Delegation partners for performance management standards, financial responsibility and proactively implements appropriate business solutions as required. Acts as the critical link between our Delegation partners and internal Departments. As the company's operations representative, this position manages the facilitation from initial launch of services through day-to-day interactions.

Key Details: This position is remote within the United States with preference to candidates within the Central or Eastern time zones.

  • Provide direct Account Management responsibilities including scheduling regular meetings with delegated partners, agenda management, documentation and minutes.

  • Create and provide monthly service performance dashboards or reporting with delegated partners and address any issues in meeting established performance expectations.

  • Maintains regular communications with leads at delegated partner organizations and works internally to communicate business needs to delegated partners.

  • Directs, monitors and/or contributes to special projects and other planning initiatives that are highly complex and involve oversight of the delegated partners.

  • Ensures that payments are accurate and timely for services rendered.

Education/Experience: Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration or related field or equivalent experience. Five plus years of experience supporting working with Primary Care Providers, Account Management experience working in Healthcare or related field, able to present to executive-level teams at the delegated entities

At Centene, we connect people to the care they need to live healthier lives — and the work you do here makes that impact real every day. You’ll take on meaningful challenges that directly support individuals, families, and communities, building your skills while making healthcare more accessible and effective. It’s work with a purpose you can see, backed by a team committed to improving lives well beyond the workday.

Centene offers a comprehensive benefits package including: competitive pay, health insurance, 401K and stock purchase plans, tuition reimbursement, paid time off plus holidays, and a flexible approach to work with remote, hybrid, field or office work schedules. Actual pay will be adjusted based on an individual's skills, experience, education, and other job-related factors permitted by law, including full-time or part-time status. Total compensation may also include additional forms of incentives. Benefits may be subject to program eligibility.

Centene is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity, and values the ways in which we are different. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other characteristic protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in accordance with the LA County Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act

How this job compares

Set against the 11,957 open Account Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 7, 2026.

Pay
  • This postingNot listed
  • Missouri median$90–144K/yr111 salary ranges
  • US median$23–29/hr494 hourly ranges
Openings
Olive Jobs lists 173 open Account Management jobs in Missouri and 11,957 across the US. 14% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Missouri
Experience
Account Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 3 to 7 years (9,081 postings).
Education
2,814 of the 11,957 open Account Management jobs (24%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 7, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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