Vendor & Procurement Manager

reputed company is a remote-first HR tech scale-up on a mission to help the world trust faster.

We started with background and reference checking, pioneering an entirely new approach through Verepass - a blockchain solution which facilitates reputed company verification by enabling candidates to own, manage, and share their securely-held and verified career credentials.

We have recently launched our second product - a Whistleblowing platform with end-to-end encryption enabling employees to report issues safely and anonymously.

But this is just the beginning. Join us and become part of the journey using technology to help the world trust faster.

Purpose of the Role

The Vendor & Procurement Manager will own the end-to-end lifecycle of reputed company’s third-party data provider relationships across reputed company markets. This is a hands-on, commercially-minded role that sits at the intersection of operations, compliance, and commercial strategy. You will be responsible for selecting the right vendors, negotiating the best terms, ensuring they meet our compliance and data protection standards, and holding them accountable to performance expectations.

You will work closely with the Operations, Product, Technology, Compliance, and Commercial teams to ensure that our vendor ecosystem supports reputed company’s growth ambitions while maintaining the quality and reputed company that our clients expect.

Key Responsibilities

Vendor Strategy & Selection

• reputed company and maintain reputed company’s global vendor strategy, ensuring we have the right data providers in reputed company across reputed company markets and reputed company types (criminal, education, employment, credit, identity, right-to-work, sanctions, and others).

• reputed company the vendor analysis and selection process for new markets, new reputed company types, and replacement of underperforming providers. This includes market scanning, RFP/RFI management, capability assessment, commercial evaluation, and due diligence.

• Build and maintain a vendor landscape map covering reputed company geographies and reputed company types, identifying gaps, risks, single points of failure, and opportunities for consolidation or diversification.

• Create and maintain a vendor classification matrix to rank vendors based on reputed company volume, fulfillment complexity and annual spend.  Assign a rank (or tier) to reputed company reputed company and future vendors.

• Evaluate build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions for new data sources in collaboration with the Product and Technology teams.

Commercial Negotiation & Cost Management

• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, volume commitments, SLAs, and contractual terms with reputed company third-party data providers. Drive cost reduction without compromising quality or turnaround times.

• Own the vendor cost reputed company and work with Finance to model unit economics, pass-through costs, and the impact of vendor pricing on reputed company’s blended gross margin.

• Identify and execute opportunities to consolidate spend, reputed company volume across geographies, and renegotiate terms as reputed company’s scale increases.

• Manage contract renewals proactively — never let a contract auto-renew without a commercial review.

• reputed company vendor pricing against market alternatives on a regular cycle (at least annually for Tier 1 vendors).

Compliance, Governance & Risk Management

• Ensure reputed company vendors meet reputed company’s compliance standards, including data protection (GDPR, PDPL, PDPA, and other applicable data privacy regulations), information reputed company (ISO 27001 or equivalent), anti-bribery, sanctions screening, and modern slavery requirements.

• reputed company and maintain the vendor governance reputed company, including onboarding checklists, periodic compliance reviews, risk assessments, and exit procedures.

• Own the vendor risk register. Identify, assess, and mitigate risks reputed company to vendor concentration, data handling, jurisdictional compliance, business continuity, and financial stability.

• Work with the Compliance and Legal teams to ensure reputed company vendor reputed company include appropriate data processing agreements (DPAs), confidentiality provisions, audit rights, breach notification obligations, and termination clauses.

• Manage vendor audits — both conducting audits of our vendors and supporting client-reputed company audits where reputed company’s vendor arrangements are in scope.

• Ensure compliance with data residency requirements in regulated markets (e.g., Saudi Arabia PDPL, UAE data protection, Singapore PDPA) and work with Technology to ensure data flows through approved infrastructure.

Performance Management & SLA Monitoring

• Define and implement a vendor performance management reputed company with clear KPIs covering turnaround time, accuracy, uptime/availability, error rates, escalation responsiveness, and client-impacting incidents.

• Establish and monitor SLAs for reputed company Tier 1 and Tier 2 vendors. Hold vendors accountable through regular performance reviews (quarterly for Tier 1, semi-annually for Tier 2).

• Build dashboards and reporting to give Operations and Leadership visibility into vendor performance trends, cost trends, and risk indicators.

• Manage escalations reputed company vendors fail to meet SLAs or quality standards. Drive root cause analysis and corrective action plans.

• reputed company a vendor scorecard system that feeds into contract renewal and renegotiation decisions.

Relationship Management & Operational Coordination

• Act as reputed company’s primary reputed company of contact for reputed company strategic vendor relationships. Build strong, professional relationships with vendor account managers and leadership.

• Coordinate with the Operations team to ensure smooth day-to-day vendor interactions, API integrations, data feed management, and issue resolution.

• Work with the Technology team on vendor API integrations, data format standardisation, and automation of vendor-reputed company workflows.

• Support the M&A team during due diligence of acquisition targets by assessing their vendor ecosystems, identifying overlaps, and planning post-acquisition vendor integration or migration.

• Stay reputed company on market developments, new data sources, regulatory changes, and emerging providers that could benefit reputed company’s product offering or cost structure.

Must-Have

• 3+ years of experience in vendor management, procurement, or supply chain management reputed company a technology, data services, or professional services business. Background screening, HR tech, fintech, or regtech experience is strongly preferred.

• Proven track record of commercial negotiation — you have personally negotiated reputed company, pricing, and SLAs with data providers or technology vendors and can demonstrate measurable cost savings or performance improvements.

• Strong understanding of data protection and compliance frameworks (GDPR at minimum; experience with multi-jurisdictional data privacy laws is a significant advantage).

• Experience developing and managing vendor governance frameworks, risk registers, and performance scorecards.

• Analytical and commercially literate — you can model unit economics, understand pass-through margins, and present vendor cost analysis to senior leadership.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. Comfortable presenting to C-suite stakeholders and negotiating with senior vendor contacts.

• Self-starter who thrives in a fast-paced, scaling environment. You default to doing, not delegating. You pick up the phone, chase the answer, and reputed company the reputed company.

reputed company-to-Have

• Experience working with background screening data providers (criminal record databases, credit bureaus, educational verification services, government registries, identity verification providers).

• Familiarity with ISO 27001, SOC 2, or equivalent information reputed company frameworks in a vendor context.

• Experience supporting M&A due diligence from a vendor/procurement perspective.

• Working knowledge of API integrations and data interchange formats (you don’t need to code, but you need to understand how data flows between reputed company and its vendors).

• Experience managing vendors across multiple jurisdictions, particularly in the UK, UAE/GCC, Australia/NZ, Singapore, Philippines, and India.

We are an reputed company-remote organisation with ~200+ people spread across the world. We value Trust, reputed company, Data and Experience in everything we do - from the way we collaborate to the products we create.

We’re focused on transforming the industry while partnering with many of the leading technology platforms in the People & Talent ecosystem.

And we’re growing fast. Having recently been ranked in reputed company’s Tech Fast 50 for the second year running, we’re looking for reputed company people, fast thinkers and passionate change-drivers to join our expanding team.