Vendor Management & Procurement Operations Manager, Italy

About us:

We are a community of visionary innovators dedicated to providing pioneering software and consultancy services to financial institutions trading firms central banks governments and corporations around the world. We strive to simplify the way people work. We do that by providing workflow and process automation software as well as providing real-time data and business intelligence to help people make better decisions. We are 13000 employees we operate globally with 80 global offices and we serve over 4800 customers worldwide.

We are looking for a Vendor Management & Procurement Operations Manager to act as a central coordination point between Procurement Vendor Management processes corporate functions and enabling systems with a strong focus on data analysis operational intelligence and process optimization.

The role requires a highly analytical professional capable of combining procurement operations expertise with advanced data management and reporting capabilities ensuring data-driven governance across the entire vendor lifecycle.

The successful candidate will play a key role in transforming procurement and vendor management data into actionable insights supporting strategic decisions regulatory compliance operational efficiency and continuous process improvement.

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Your role:

Your key duties and responsibilities

• 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.
• Support business analysis data engineering activities and system/data integrations across procurement ERP finance and vendor management platforms.
• 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).
• Manage and oversee vendor onboarding qualification classification monitoring and lifecycle governance processes.
• Contribute to process evolution and system improvements translating business regulatory operational and control requirements into functional specifications and data requirements.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Procurement Finance Risk Compliance IT and Data teams to improve data reliability operational transparency and process automation.
• Support audits regulatory requests and client inquiries related to Procurement and Vendor Management processes ensuring data accuracy traceability and reporting readiness.

Your skills experience and qualifications required

• Masters 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 (e.g. banking ICT outsourcing regulated technology services).
• 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.
• Proven ability to perform functional and business analysis translating operational needs into process and data requirements.
• 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.
• Familiarity with data structures data quality frameworks reconciliation logic and system integrations.
• Strong attention to data quality controls governance and operational risk management.
• Excellent stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Pragmatic structured analytical and solution-oriented approach.
• Strong team-oriented mindset with the ability to coordinate cross-functional initiatives and operational streams.
• Ability to operate autonomously prioritize effectively and manage both operational activities and project-based initiatives.
• Excellent English knowledge.

What we offer:

• 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.

Location:

Milan.

Important notes:

According to the Italian Law (L.68/99) please note that candidates from the disability list will be given priority.