# Senior Procurement Lead - People & Workplace **Company**: Wise **Location**: London **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: GBP 89,000 - GBP 127,000 **Category**: Operations **Industry**: Finance **Apply**: https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000143250875-senior-procurement-lead-people-workplace?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d40f5c3a-a97 ## Description Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money. Min fees. Max ease. Full speed. We're looking for a Senior Procurement Lead to join our Third Party Management and Procurement Team in London (UK). This role will focus on leading the People & Workplace category comprising subcategories such as Recruitment, Benefits, Travel, Meals & Entertainment, Facilities. Your mission: At Wise, our mission is to make money borderless , and Procurement plays a key role in making that happen. We enable smarter, data-driven sourcing decisions that ensure Wise partners with the right suppliers, minimises risk, and drives maximum value from every third-party investment. Responsibilities: - Develop and execute long-term procurement strategies that align with Wise's business objectives. - Manage a team of 2x Procurement professionals helping them to navigate complexity through effective coaching and development strategies. - Strategically partner with the business acting as their main point of contact whilst building robust relationships with stakeholders within the organization. - Lead efforts to achieve cost reductions and optimization of spend across categories. - Evaluate and support selection of suppliers, utilizing robust criteria for quality, price, and reliability. - Identify opportunities for consolidating suppliers, renegotiating contracts, or initiating new proposals. - Assist in the creation of risk mitigation strategies to address supply chain disruptions. - Stay up to date on initiatives aimed at sustainable and ethical sourcing to enhance Wise's reputation and ensure compliance with relevant standards and regulations. - Advocate for and implement innovative procurement technologies and process automation to enhance procurement processes, increase efficiency, and reduce manual tasks. - Mentor and develop procurement team members, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and professional growth. - Ensure all procurement activities comply with internal policies, legal requirements, and industry regulations while promoting integrity and transparency across all operations. This role will give you the opportunity to: - Choose your path to impact. - Be extremely hands on. - Be part of our mission to make money without borders the new normal. Qualifications: - Experience in leading and developing commercial strategies relating to the categories in your scope. - Proven track record of delivering and exceeding commercial targets such as savings, supplier consolidation, cash management. - Excellent communication skills with the ability to build relationships, influence and work collaboratively across different teams. - Ability to advise, manage and report risks effectively, providing practical solutions to mitigate them. - Experience with sourcing tools, market analysis and end-to-end procurement processes. - Demonstrable ability to evaluate and summarise complex sourcing scenarios, communicating them in a clear and pragmatic way to different stakeholders and influencing with impact. - Project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously. - A get-it-done, collaborative approach to problem-solving. ## Skills ### Required - procurement - strategic planning - team management - communication - risk management - project management ### Nice to have - financial services - fintech - sourcing tools - market analysis --- Source: [Apply at jobs.smartrecruiters.com](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Wise/744000143250875-senior-procurement-lead-people-workplace?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)