Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing

Location: Singapore

Company

Airwallex provides an AI-native financial operating system and regulated global payments infrastructure for businesses and financial product providers.

What you will do

• Develop category and vendor strategies across major third-party spend areas, including technology, software, cloud, and other indirect categories.
• Lead strategic sourcing initiatives and complex vendor negotiations from market assessment through contracting and renewal.
• Evaluate pricing, usage, demand, total cost of ownership, commitments, payment terms, renewals, and service levels.
• Identify opportunities to consolidate, rationalize, re-source, or deepen strategic vendor relationships.
• Build and prioritize a pipeline of cost and value opportunities, quantify outcomes, and track realized financial impact.
• Establish sourcing frameworks, supplier selection practices, vendor governance, and a reliable source of truth for contracts and commercial risks.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement, commercial strategy, or a related field.
• Experience personally leading complex, high-value negotiations and delivering material commercial outcomes.
• Deep experience in technology and software sourcing; experience with cloud, data, or professional services is desirable.
• Strong strategic, analytical, financial, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to balance cost, capability, speed, risk, and long-term strategic value.
• High ownership and comfort building structure and best practices in a fast-moving environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a fast-moving, global financial infrastructure company with more than 2,300 employees across 27 offices.
• Operate with founder-level energy, curiosity, good judgment, and a first-principles approach.
• Collaborate across a business serving more than 676,000 companies worldwide.