Overview
Vendor Operations Manager Jobs in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at MCI
Title: Vendor Operations Manager
Company: MCI
Location: City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
MCI is one of the fastest-growing tech-enabled business services companies in the USA, with a strong call center footprint and operations that extend across multiple countries. We deliver Customer Experience (CX), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), and Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) cloud technology solutions across a wide range of industries, including healthcare, retail, government, education, telecom, technology e-commerce, and financial services. Our contact centers are powered by both on-site and remote agents, leveraging advanced technologies to enhance customer journeys, drive scalability and reduce costs.
At MCI we are committed to fostering an environment where professionals can build meaningful careers, access continuous learning and development opportunities and contribute to the success of a globally expanding, industry-leading organization.
We are looking for a commercially minded and operationally strong Vendor Operations Manager to join our growing international BPO environment.
This role sits at the intersection of client relationships, operational delivery, and vendor performance management. The successful candidate will play a critical role in managing strategic outsourcing partnerships while ensuring operational excellence, service delivery performance, and long-term client success across global accounts.
We are specifically looking for someone with strong client-side exposure who understands how to operate within fast-paced, high-growth outsourced environments and can confidently engage with senior stakeholders both internally and externally.
What You’ll Be Responsible For
- Managing relationships with external BPO vendors and operational partners
- Acting as a strategic liaison between clients, operations leadership, and outsourced delivery teams
- Driving vendor accountability against SLAs, KPIs, quality, productivity, and service delivery expectations
- Leading operational governance reviews and performance discussions
- Managing escalations and ensuring timely resolution of operational issues
- Supporting onboarding and operational integration of new vendors and clients
- Working closely with internal operational leadership across multiple regions
- Identifying opportunities for operational improvement, efficiency, and scalability
- Ensuring strong commercial governance and vendor compliance standards
What We’re Looking For
- Proven experience within a global BPO, outsourcing, or service delivery environment
- Strong operational leadership capability with exposure to client-facing responsibilities
- Experience managing vendor relationships and operational performance
- Ability to build trusted client relationships at senior stakeholder level
- Strong understanding of operational metrics, governance, and service delivery frameworks
- Commercially aware with strong problem-solving capability
- Strong professional network
- Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and escalation handling skills
Preferred Backgrounds
We welcome candidates from:
- BPO Operations
- Service Delivery
- Vendor Management
- Client Services
- Outsourcing Governance
- Contact Centre Operations
ABOUT MCI (PARENT COMPANY)
MCI helps customers take on their CX and DX challenges differently, creating industry-leading solutions that deliver exceptional experiences and drive optimal performance. MCI assists companies with business process outsourcing, staff augmentation, contact center customer services, and IT Services needs by providing general and specialized hosting, software, staff, and services.
In 2019, Marlowe Companies Inc. (MCI) was named by Inc. Magazine as Iowa's Fastest Growing Company in the State of Iowa and was named the 452nd Fastest Growing Privately Company in the USA, making the coveted top 500 for the first time. MCI's subsidiaries had previously made Inc. Magazine's List of Fastest-Growing Companies 15 times, respectively. MCI has ten business process outsourcing service delivery facilities in Georgia, Florida, Texas, New Mexico, California, Kansas, Nova Scotia, South Africa, and the Philippines.
Driving modernization through digitalization, MCI ensures clients do more for less. MCI is the holding company for a diverse lineup of tech-enabled business services operating companies. MCI organically grows, acquires, and operates companies that have synergistic products and services portfolios, including but not limited to Automated Contact Center Solutions (ACCS), customer contact management, IT Services (IT Schedule 70), and Temporary and Administrative Professional Staffing (TAPS Schedule 736), Business Process Management (BPM), Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), Claims Processing, Collections, Customer Experience Provider (CXP), Customer Service, Digital Experience Provider (DXP), Account Receivables Management (ARM), Application Software Development, Managed Services, and Technology Services, to mid-market, Federal & enterprise partners. MCI now employs 10,000+ talented individuals with 150+ diverse North American client partners across the following MCI brands: MCI BPO, MCI BPOaaS, MarketForce, GravisApps, Gravis Marketing, MarchEast, Mass Markets, MCI Federal Services (MFS), OnBrand24, The Sydney Call Center, Valor Intelligent Processing (VIP), BYC Aqua, EastWest BPO, TeleTechnology, and Vinculum.
All Positive, And Driven Applicants Are Encouraged to Apply. The Ideal Candidates for This Position Are Highly Motivated and Dedicated and Should Possess the Below Qualities:
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT
All MCI Locations
- Must be authorized to work in the country where the job is based.
Subject to the program and location of the position
- Must be willing to submit up to a LEVEL II background and/or security investigation with a fingerprint. Job offers are contingent on background/security investigation results.
- Must be willing to submit to drug screening. Job offers are contingent on drug screening results.
COMPENSATION DETAILS
WANT AN EMPLOYER THAT VALUES YOUR CONTRIBUTION?
At MCI, we believe that your hard work deserves recognition and reward. Our compensation and benefits packages are designed to be competitive and to grow with you over time. Starting compensation is based on experience, and we offer a variety of benefits and incentives to support and reward our team members.
Compensation & Benefits That Fit Your Life
MCI takes pride in tailoring our offerings to fit the needs of our diverse team across subsidiaries and locations. While specific benefits and incentives may vary by geography, the core of our commitment remains the same: rewarding effort, providing growth opportunities, and creating an environment where every employee feels valued.
If you’re ready to join a company that recognizes your contributions and supports your growth, MCI is the place for you. Apply today!
DIVERSITY AND EQUALITY
At MCI and its subsidiaries, we embrace differences and believe diversity benefits our employees, company, customers, and community. All aspects of employment at MCI are based solely on a person's merit and qualifications. MCI maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All employees are responsible for fulfilling MCI's commitment to a diverse and equal-opportunity work environment.
MCI does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. MCI will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in a manner consistent with local and federal requirements.
MCI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, MCI's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees with protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where an employee works.
