GoHenry - Head of Procurement (FinTech), 12-month Fixed Term Contract

• Category Management & Sourcing: Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives for IT, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure, data feeds, and specialised FinTech tooling. • Material Vendor Negotiation: Working with the GoHenry Legal Team and vendor account owners to commercialise and negotiate complex, multi-year vendor contracts to maximise value, ensure scalability, and protect the company bottom line. • Risk & Compliance Collaboration: Partner closely with Information Security (InfoSec), Operational Risk, and Legal teams to ensure all vendors comply with applicable regulatory requirements, including FCA rules and guidance, e-money regulations, operational resilience requirements, and supporting standards such as PCI-DSS and SOC2. • Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive teams, transforming their requirements into commercial agreements. • Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Develop and track vendor KPIs and SLAs, ensuring critical partners deliver on their promises and continuously innovate alongside our Product, Tech and Ops teams. • Process Optimisation: Help iterate and automate our procurement infrastructure, implementing modern tooling to move away from legacy approval chains. • Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Formalise and own GoHenry's TPRM framework, including vendor risk tiering, onboarding due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and board-level reporting on vendor risk. • Vendor Resilience & Continuity: Identify single-point-of-failure vendor dependencies, develop contingency and exit strategies for critical suppliers, and maintain an up-to-date vendor contingency risk map. • Vendor Governance Lifecycle: Own the full vendor governance lifecycle end-to-end, including contract renewals and regulatory-driven vendor assessments. • WHAT YOU WILL BRING TO GOHENRY: (REQUIREMENTS) • Experience: 6+ years of experience in strategic procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management—ideally within a regulated Tech, SaaS, or FinTech or or financial services environment. • The FinTech Mindset: You understand that "speed to market" is just as important as "cost savings." You see your role as a partnership with other teams and you use those relationships with both internal teams and vendors to unblock bottlenecks without cutting corners on compliance. • Master Negotiator: A proven track record of dismantling complex pricing models and successfully negotiating with tech vendors. • Analytical Rigor: Strong financial acumen; ability to build TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) models and ROI analyses. • Communication: Strong interpersonal skills. You can speak "developer" to the engineering team and "ROI" to the CFO. • TPRM Expertise: Direct experience iterating or operating a third-party risk management framework (ideally in a regulated financial services environment), including vendor risk tiering, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring. • Experience navigating financial and regulatory audits. • Familiarity with modern procurement and spend-management software. • Professional certifications (e.g., CIPS, CPSM). • Working knowledge of FCA regulatory expectations for outsourcing and third-party risk management, including the FCA's operational resilience framework.