How to renew Apple Developer Membership manually

It wasn’t as easy when you asked, but now it’s quite easy to add a new AppleID and then switch roles. Even if the company does not want to do any of the work, you can set up a new AppleID and promote that to the owner and then eject your desired account.

• https://developer.apple.com/support/roles/

When that is done, you can reapply. I would open a support case with developer support before you start to be sure they can help and you are cleared. They have been exceptionally helpful to us in getting past employees that quit and move the company accounts around as needed. Just give them time to check on things - the more a rush you are in, the more they wonder you’re trying to pull a fast one.

No. Apple checks each developer's identity by checking with their credit card company, so it has to be paid with the developers credit card.

There are other ways involving faxing ID to them, but that's rather inconvenient.