Procurement Manager

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 200,000 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 2,000 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$8 billion and backed by world-leading investors including T. Rowe Price, Visa, Mastercard, Robinhood Ventures, Sequoia, Salesforce Ventures, DST Global, and Lone Pine Capital, 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.

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.

• 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

• 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

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