Contingent Labor Consultant
- FCS Software Solutions
- 8 - 12 years
- Noida, Gurugram
- 13 days ago
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Job Description
**Urgent Hiring for the role of Contingent Labor Consultant for our team**
Role: Contingent Labor Consultant
Duration: Contract
Location: Remote
Work timing: UK Hours
Job Description:
IT Vendor Management Office (VMO) Digital Technology Solutions (DTS)
Key Responsibilities:
Governance & Strategy
- Define and own contingent workforce governance (policies, operating model, RACI, controls) across DTS; ensure compliance with legal, finance, security, and procurement requirements.
- Set the contingent workforce strategy (supplier panel design, sourcing channels, rate card strategy, extensions, offboarding) and drive enterprise adherence.
- Establish risk controls (misclassification, co-employment risk mitigation, access controls, segregation of duties, data privacy) in partnership with Procurement, Legal and Security.
- Create a VMS playbook and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for request, approval, onboarding, time/cost management, extensions, and offboarding.
- Demand Management & Process Excellence
- Define processes to improve visibility to the DTS demand pipeline.
- Implement capacity planning and skills taxonomy to align demand with preferred suppliers and delivery models (onshore/offshore/nearshore).
- Drive rate-card adherence, competitive rate benchmarking, and exception governance.
- VMS Ownership
- Own and administer the VMS (configuration, workflow rules, templates, role-based access, compliance controls).
- Maximize tool leverage (analytics, dashboards, alerts, audits, supplier scorecards, rate enforcement).
- Lead VMS implementations or expansions (new modules/geographies/business units), ensuring change management and training.
- Vendor Performance & Commercial Discipline
- Reporting / Monitoring / Performance Management: create vendor scorecards, SLAs/OLAs, and performance reviews (fill rates, cycle times, quality, attrition, compliance, cost).
- Drive adherence to preferred suppliers; govern exception routing; enforce rate cards and commercial terms.
- Insights & Management Reporting
- Build Executive-ready dashboards and management reporting: headcount, spend, rate compliance, cycle times, pipeline visibility, supplier mix, attrition, tenure & extension patterns, savings.
- Provide data-driven recommendations (optimize supplier panel, delivery model, rate revisions, process bottlenecks).
- Run continuous improvement initiatives.
Role Overview:
The Contingent Labor Governance Consultant is responsible for establishing and leading best practices for contingent workforce governance within DTS. This role drives process excellence, tool adoption (VMS), supplier compliance, and actionable insights, focusing on business operations and governance rather than talent acquisition. The consultant ensures demand visibility, rate discipline, contract adherence, and performance management across a population of approximately 3,000 contingent resources. By fostering a culture of continuous improvement and strategic alignment, the consultant empowers teams to maximize value, mitigate risk, and maintain control across the contingent labor landscape.
Core Responsibilities:
- Develop and implement governance frameworks, policies, and operating models for contingent workforce management, ensuring compliance with legal, finance, security, and procurement requirements.
- Lead end-to-end processes for contingent workforce lifecycle management, including supplier panel design, sourcing channels, rate card strategy, onboarding, extensions, and offboarding.
- Establish risk controls (misclassification, co-employment risk mitigation, access controls, segregation of duties, background checks, data privacy) in partnership with the vendors, HR, Legal, Security, and Compliance.
- Own and administer the VMS (Beeline, VNDLY, SAP Fieldglass, or Coupa), including configuration, workflow rules, templates, integrations, and compliance controls.
- Drive process excellence in demand management, capacity planning, skills taxonomy, and rate-card adherence.
- Create and maintain vendor scorecards, SLAs, and performance reviews to monitor fill rates, cycle times, quality, attrition, compliance, and cost.
- Build executive-ready dashboards and management reporting to provide insights on headcount, spend, rate compliance, supplier mix, and savings.
- Partner with IT, Procurement, and Finance to maintain integrations and support VMS implementations or expansions.
- Run continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Deliverables / Value Enabled:
- Strategic alignment of contingent labor engagements with enterprise priorities.
- Scalable governance frameworks that drive accountability, transparency, and timely decision-making.
- Dashboards and reporting that provide actionable insights into supplier health, risks, and performance.
- Improved capacity planning and resource allocation, reducing bottlenecks and increasing throughput.
- Enhanced cross-functional collaboration between business, IT, finance, and procurement teams.
- Consistent execution of contingent labor management practices across departments.
- Compliance with established standards and policies, reducing risk of non-compliance.
Required Qualifications:
- 5-10+ years in contingent workforce management, vendor management, sourcing operations, or PMO within large IT organizations.
- Familiarity with various commercial models, including fixed-bid, time & material, managed services, and other contractual frameworks.
- Hands-on VMS experience: Beeline, VNDLY, SAP Fieldglass or similarities.
- VMS implementation experience is a strong plus (process design, configuration, data migration, integrations, UAT, hypercare).
- Proven ability to define governance and enforce adherence across distributed stakeholders.
- Experience with rate-card management, preferred supplier programs, and performance scorecards.
- Strong analytics/reporting with advanced Excel skills; comfort with data quality, reconciliation, and controls.
- Familiarity with procurement, finance, and legal processes (POs, invoicing, T&Cs, timesheets, and compliance standards).
- Excellent stakeholder management; ability to act as a liaison between vendors and DTS teams.
- Ability to work during US time zone.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with Coupa and Apptio Target Process.
- Knowledge of MSAs/SOWs, co-employment risk, and audit frameworks.
- Lean/Six Sigma or process improvement certifications.
- Experience with nearshore/offshore delivery models and global supplier governance.
- Problem solving and decision making with attention to detail and ability to resolve complex issues.
- Organizational savvy and interpersonal effectiveness to influence and drive change.
- Resilience and adaptability in navigating change and ambiguity.
- Proactive value creation and customer relationship management.
- Collaboration and ability to mobilize cross-functional teams.
- Strong communication and writing skills.
Core Competencies:
- Governance & Policy Design
- Tool Ownership & Configuration (VMS)
- Commercial Acumen (rates, contracts, savings)
Analytics & Insight:
- Stakeholder Influence & Change Management
- Operational Rigor & Risk Management
Note: Interested candidates can drop their resumes at aa*******i@fc***d.com
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: Software DevelopmentRole: Software Development - OtherEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: FCS Software SolutionsLocation(s): Noida, Gurugram
Keyskills: Beeline VMS Contingent Labor Fieldglass vmo SOW
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