Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

The role

You will lead the strategic approach to third-party spend globally. This involves shaping category and vendor strategies and leading commercial negotiations for major indirect spend categories like technology and software.

What you will do

• Develop category strategies across major areas of third-party spend
• Build a forward-looking view of the vendor portfolio
• Shape sourcing decisions including requirements and vendor selection
• Lead important sourcing initiatives and vendor negotiations
• Develop negotiation strategies using benchmarks and vendor economics
• Optimize commercial structures including pricing and service levels
• Build and prioritize a pipeline of opportunities across pricing and demand
• Quantify and track commercial outcomes
• Establish frameworks and best practices for sourcing and vendor management
• Build a source of truth across vendors, spend, and contracts

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, commercial strategy or a related field
• Track record of personally leading complex, high-value negotiations
• Strong strategic, analytical and financial capabilities
• Ability to operate from strategy through execution
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• High ownership and comfort building structure and best practices

Nice to have

• Experience within technology, fintech or another fast-growing global business
• Deep experience in technology and software sourcing
• Exposure to cloud, data, professional services or other major indirect categories

About the company

Airwallex is an AI-native financial operating system for a real-time, intelligent economy. It provides financial infrastructure for over 675,000 businesses globally.