# Procurement Operations Manager

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: Budapest
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: HUF 1185000 to HUF 1400000 / gross monthly
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Wise is a global technology company, building the best way to move and manage the world's money.

As the Procurement Operations Manager at Wise, you will not just be managing the procurement process and system; you will also be involved with building the architecture of our procurement infrastructure.

**Key Responsibilities**

### Procurement Operations

- Manage the E2E processes on our Procurement/TPM tool “Omnea” and identify and resolve bottlenecks and bugs.

- Own vendor master data integrity, vendor onboarding, and the purchase order (PO) approval workflow.

- Act as Procurement's system administrator and super-user for our Procurement/TPM tool “Omnea”, owning all Procurement processes within the system and ensuring seamless integrations with ERP (BC) and AP system (Medius).

- Drive the Wise Procurement Standards, ensuring all buying activities follow the correct buying channels and treatment strategies.

- Build dashboards and reporting mechanisms to track key operational metrics, pipeline visibility, and contract renewal schedules and enable the Category Management team.

- Manage and optimise global buying channels to ensure intuitive user experiences and high compliance.

- Develop and execute strategies to actively manage and reduce tail spend, vendor consolidation, and moving ad-hoc spend into structured buying channels.

- Author and maintain comprehensive Procurement standard operating procedures (SOPs), process, and governance documentation.

### Process & Infrastructure Design

- Manage change management initiatives associated with new procurement processes, policies, or technology rollouts.

- Create clear, UX-friendly procurement processes and playbooks that ensure compliance whilst balancing agility and speed.

- Design and deploy a comprehensive matrix of corporate buying channels.

### Vendor Risk & Compliance

- Ensure our Procurement process operates within a robust Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) framework.

- Manage the operational lifecycle of critical vendors, tracking SLAs, performance, and compliance metrics.

- Design, implement, and monitor procurement operational controls.

- Partner with TPRM and TPM Tech to automate compliance checks within the S2P process.

### Stakeholder Enablement & Culture

- Act as the primary bridge between key stakeholders involved in the S2P process.

- Train the organization on how to buy goods and services efficiently.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

- Procurement Operations Background: 4+ years of procurement operations experience, ideally within a fast-paced Fintech, SaaS, or high-growth technology environment.

- Greenfield Exposure: Proven experience being part of a procurement transformation or building a procurement operation from scratch is highly desirable.

- Systems Expert: Deep hands-on experience implementing or heavily managing modern e-Procurement/S2P platforms.

- Data-Driven: Advanced proficiency in data analytics, spend analysis, and Excel/BI tools.

- The "Builder" Mindset: Comfortable building out processes and operationalising for BAU.

- Agile Communicator: Ability to speak the language of technical stakeholders, Compliance, and senior stakeholders.

- Problem Solver: Identify process bottlenecks and automate them away.

## Skills

### Required
- Procurement Operations
- e-Procurement/S2P platforms
- data analytics
- Excel/BI tools

### Nice to have
- Greenfield Exposure
- Third-Party Risk Management

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