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 13,000+ employees, we operate globally with 80+ global offices, and we serve over 4,800+ 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.

Learn more at iongroup.com.

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

• Master's 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.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.