Senior Project Coordinator Vendor Compliance

Ready to Love Your Job?

Texas Roadhouse is looking for legendary, passionate Roadies to join our Support Center team in Louisville, KY. If you’re ready to bring your energy, partnership, and heart to a place where fun meets purpose, you’ve come to the right place. Come see why our Roadies love their jobs!

This is an on-site hybrid schedule (minimum 3 days in office weekly) at the Texas Roadhouse Support Center located in Louisville, Kentucky

Why This Role Rocks

As a Senior Project Coordinator, Vendor Compliance, you’ll play an important role in strengthening how we manage vendor relationships, risk, and supply chain compliance. You’ll partner across Procurement, Legal, Cybersecurity, Risk Services, Accounting, IT, and Operations to help keep vendor processes running smoothly from onboarding through ongoing performance management.

This is a great opportunity for someone who enjoys connecting the dots, managing details, improving processes, and collaborating across teams while supporting programs that have an impact across the organization.

Your Recipe for Success

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 3+ years of experience in project coordination, procurement, contract management, vendor management, compliance, supply chain, or a related field
• Experience coordinating projects and working with cross-functional stakeholders
• Strong organizational, analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office
• Experience with Ironclad, OneTrust, vendor risk management, supplier governance, or compliance programs is a plus
• Certifications such as PMP, CAPM, CTPRP, CSCP, or similar project management, procurement, vendor risk, or supply chain certifications are preferred

What’s On Your Plate

• Coordinate vendor onboarding and offboarding, risk assessments, due diligence, and cross-functional vendor reviews
• Manage and track vendor documentation, criticality ratings, compliance requirements, remediation plans, and open issues
• Support supplier compliance activities, including certifications, insurance requirements, audits, corrective actions, and contractual requirements
• Serve as a key functional administrator for Ironclad and OneTrust, supporting workflows, questionnaires, templates, reporting, dashboards, permissions, testing, and enhancements
• Coordinate vendor scorecards and performance reviews while monitoring compliance metrics, risk trends, and supplier performance
• Support sustainability, responsible sourcing, traceability, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity initiatives
• Prepare reports, dashboards, and executive summaries that provide visibility into vendor performance and risk
• Keep projects moving by tracking deliverables and action items, identifying roadblocks, and escalating issues when needed
• Help improve vendor governance processes by identifying opportunities for greater efficiency and maintaining clear process documentation

Why You'll Love Your Job

As our founder Kent Taylor said, “We’re a people-first company that just happens to serve steaks.” We believe in taking care of the whole Roadie: from professional development opportunities to a robust benefits package. Our culture is just one reason why many of our leaders started as servers, managers, and line cooks, and have grown Legendary careers with us. Here’s a taste of what we offer:

• Best-in-class benefits including medical, dental, vision, and 100% paid maternity leave
• Generous time off including vacation, parental, donor, and bereavement leave
• Wellness perks like on-site personal trainers, massages, a full gym, and a registered nurse
• Convenience services like car detailing, dry cleaning, and even spray tans
• Financial support with 401(k), tuition reimbursement, stock units, and holiday bonuses
• Delicious perks from Willie’s Joynt—our full-service café serving up legendary meals

Support Center employees who meet benefit eligibility receive a comprehensive total rewards package starting the first day of the month after 31 days of employment.

This job description includes essential functions and basic duties and is intended to provide guidelines for job expectations and the employee's ability to perform the position described. It is not an exhaustive list of all functions, responsibilities, skills, and abilities. Additional functions and requirements may be assigned by supervisors as appropriate. This document is not a contract of employment, and the Company reserves the right to change this job description and/or assign tasks for the employee to perform, as the Company may deem appropriate.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, gender, pregnancy, gender identity, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, citizenship, national origin, or any other legally-protected status. We encourage and welcome all applicants to apply.

Why work here?

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us!

About Us

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people. Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.