Senior Procurement Manager

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,800 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

Attributes We Value

We hire successful builders with founder-like energy who want real impact, accelerated learning, and true ownership. You bring strong role-related expertise and sharp thinking, and you’re motivated by our mission and operating principles. You move fast with good judgment, dig deep with curiosity, and make decisions from first principles, balancing speed and rigor.

You're humble and collaborative; turn zero‑to‑one ideas into real products, and you “get stuff done” end-to-end. You use AI to work smarter and solve problems faster. Here, you’ll tackle complex, high‑visibility problems with exceptional teammates and grow your career as we build the future of global banking. If that sounds like you, let’s build what’s next.

What you'll do

As we expand our business and operation crossing the world, we need to make sure that our procurement functionality, policy and process is built with the highest standard compared with industry best practice. Therefore, you will help Airwallex to establish the Procurement function which best fits our business model and future scalability.

In this role you will be responsible for defining and ensuring the execution of the procurement strategy, policies, and processes. You will act as the main point of contact for all matters relating to spend. You will 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop policies and detailed processes for our centralized procure to pay process

• Create and manage direct relationships with finance and other functional departments, such as engineering and product team to ensure smooth procurement operations

• Manage shared service resources to handle vendor management, PR creation, supplier engagement and ensure compliance to our procurement policy

• Continuously explore efficiencies in technology solutions for procurement, including the 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 opportunities for further improvement

Who you are

• 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

Equal opportunity

Airwallex is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and anyone seeking employment at Airwallex is considered based on merit, qualifications, competence and talent. We don’t regard color, religion, race, national origin, sexual orientation, ancestry, citizenship, sex, marital or family status, disability, gender, or any other legally protected status when making our hiring decisions. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

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