# Senior Procurement Lead - People & Workplace

**Company**: Wise
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Finance

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## 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. Whether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.

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 or 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.

- Assisting 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. As a Lead You'll take ownership from day one.

- Be extremely hands on. No far away leaders in Wise, and in this role you'd be expected to take on the work yourself.

- 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.

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## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- strategic planning
- team management
- communication
- risk management
- sourcing
- supplier evaluation
- contract management

### Nice to have
- financial services
- fintech
- sustainable sourcing
- ethical sourcing

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