Vendor Management Lead – Localization & Multilingual Ai
Centific Global
Multiple Locations
Onsite
Global vendor ecosystem management
Localization and ai data supply chain
Vendor lifecycle management
The Vendor Management Lead is responsible for building, scaling, and leading a global ecosystem of vendors, freelance partners, and managed service providers supporting Centific’s localization, multilingual AI, and AI data programs
Job Summary
The Vendor Management Lead is responsible for building, scaling, and leading a global ecosystem of vendors, freelance partners, and managed service providers supporting Centific’s localization, multilingual AI, and AI data programs.
This role combines strategic vendor sourcing, commercial and contractual leadership, performance governance, and team management, overseeing a team of Vendor Management Specialists.
The ideal candidate has deep experience across the localization and AI data supply chain, understands multilingual and AI market pricing, and can evaluate vendors for quality, scalability, compliance, and risk.
Matching Summary
The Vendor Management Lead is responsible for building, scaling, and leading a global ecosystem of vendors, freelance partners, and managed service providers supporting Centific’s localization, multilingual AI, and AI data programs.
Skills & Requirements
Must-have
Global vendor ecosystem management
Localization and AI data supply chain
Vendor lifecycle management
Contract and commercial negotiation
Vendor performance governance
Multilingual AI vendor solutions
Nice-to-have
AI annotation standards familiarity
LLM evaluation workflows
Multimodal data experience
Continuous improvement culture
Key Requirements
5 years of experience in Vendor Management
Proven experience managing vendors across localization and multilingual AI workflows