Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

About Airwallex 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 250,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, 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 2,300 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 27 offices around the globe. Valued at US$11 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.   Attributes We Value 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.

Airwallex is looking for a Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing to lead our strategic approach to third-party spend globally. Reporting to the Head of Strategic Finance, you will shape category and vendor strategies, lead our most important commercial negotiations, and identify opportunities to optimize our vendor portfolio and cost base. The role spans major indirect spend categories, with particular focus on technology, software, cloud and other strategically important vendors. This is a strategy-led, highly analytical role. We are looking for someone who can anticipate needs rather than react to procurement requests, challenge demand and requirements where appropriate, and balance cost discipline with quality, technical capability, risk and long-term strategic value. Procurement operations and transactional processes are supported separately.

Set category and vendor strategy Develop category strategies across major areas of third-party spend, informed by business priorities, market dynamics, cost drivers and the vendor landscape. Build a forward-looking view of Airwallex's vendor portfolio, identifying opportunities to consolidate, rationalize, re-source or deepen strategic relationships. Shape sourcing decisions early, including requirements, vendor selection, commercial models, build-versus-buy considerations and longer-term vendor strategy. Lead strategic sourcing and negotiations Lead Airwallex's most important sourcing initiatives and vendor negotiations, from market assessment and commercial evaluation through contracting and renewal. Develop rigorous negotiation strategies using benchmarks, usage and demand data, competitive alternatives, total cost of ownership and detailed vendor economics. Optimize the full commercial structure, including pricing, commitments, contract duration, payment terms, renewals, price increases and service levels. Drive value and cost discipline Build and prioritize a pipeline of opportunities across pricing, demand, utilization, specifications, vendor consolidation and commercial structures. Challenge whether spend is necessary and appropriately sized, rather than focusing solely on negotiating lower prices. Quantify and track commercial outcomes, ensuring negotiated