Vendor Management & Procurement Operations Manager

📋 Description

• Act as a key reference point for Vendor Management and Procurement processes, ensuring operational continuity and consistency across tools, data, governance models, and policies.
• Perform advanced data analysis on procurement and vendor management datasets, identifying trends, inconsistencies, operational risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Analyze data from key source systems and develop structured data models to improve understanding, usability, traceability, and governance of procurement and vendor information.
• Serve as a key analytical partner for Procurement and Vendor Management stakeholders by transforming operational data into meaningful business insights and decision-support reporting.
• Design, maintain, and improve reporting frameworks, dashboards, KPIs, and data quality controls to support governance, audits, vendor risk monitoring, and management decision-making.
• Ensure vendor master data quality, integrity, and consistency across multiple enterprise systems (e.g. ERP, procurement tools, vendor management platforms).

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree in Economics, Engineering, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Statistics, or a related field.
• Solid experience in Vendor Management and Procurement Operations, ideally within financial services or highly regulated environments.
• Strong analytical mindset with proven experience in data analysis, reporting, KPI monitoring, and operational intelligence within procurement or vendor management functions.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end vendor lifecycle management and procurement governance processes.
• Experience working with ERP systems and procurement/vendor management platforms (e.g. SAP, Jaggaer, Vendor Management platforms).
• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency in data manipulation, reporting, and analytical tools; Power BI or similar BI platforms strongly preferred.

🎁 Benefits

• Permanent employment contract.
• International and highly dynamic environment.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of Procurement, Data Analytics, Operational Governance, and Process Transformation.
• Exposure to global stakeholders and enterprise-scale systems and processes.