Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing
Western Digital
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Establish the Procurement function which best fits Airwallex's business model and future scalability
- Define and ensure the execution of the procurement strategy, policies, and processes
- Act as the main point of contact for all matters relating to spend
- Support the business (ie: Product and Engineering) in large procurement projects
- Develop procurement strategies and set up centralized procure to pay processes supported by a service team
- Create and manage direct relationships with finance and other functional departments to ensure smooth procurement operations
- Manage shared service resources to handle vendor management, PR creation, supplier engagement and ensure compliance to procurement policy
- Continuously explore efficiencies in technology solutions for procurement, including adoption of new procurement tooling
- Collaborate with the FP&A team on continuous spend insights driven by the procurement process
- Establish KPI reporting for the procurement ops team to measure success, efficiency and identify improvement opportunities
Requirements
- 8+ years of procurement and/or partnerships experience (RFP processes, cost negotiations, vendor analysis, etc.)
- Experience with building efficient centralised procure to pay processes
- Experience working with IT, Product or Engineering procurement
- Ability to ramp a new function and establish an operating model
- Ability to drive and implement change in a global organisation
- Curiosity for learning about technical products
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Direct experience implementing new systems
- Experience in evaluating metrics and making data-driven decisions
- A can-do attitude and ability to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously
- A proven track record for working well across teams and with external partners
- Ability to bring a process-oriented mindset to execute on deliverables
- Prior experience in the payment cards industry or financial services is a plus
- Prior experience working in fast-growing Procurement organisations
