Purchasing Risk & Transformation Manager

💰 A complete rewards offer - Amadeus provides attractive remuneration packages, covering all essential components of a competitive reward offer.

🌎 A truly global DNA - Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business, which translates into our footprint, processes, and culture

🎓 Great opportunities to learn - Learning happens all the time and in many ways at Amadeus, through on-the-job training, formal learning activities, and day-to-day interactions with colleagues.

🤗 A caring environment - Amadeus fosters a caring environment, nurturing both a fulfilling career and personal and family life. We care about our employees and strive to provide a supportive work environment.

🌈 A diverse and inclusive community - We are committed to leveraging our uniquely diverse population to drive innovation, creativity, and collaboration across our organization.

📈 A Reliable Company - Trust and reliability are fundamental values that drive our actions and shape long-lasting relationships with our customers, partners, and employees.

🎯 A critical mission and purpose - At Amadeus, you will be powering the future of travel and pursuing a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.

Purchasing at Amadeus is evolving to support a growing and increasingly complex business environment. We are strengthening governance and third-party risk management while modernizing our processes through digitalization, automation and AI-enabled solutions.

As Purchasing Risk & Transformation Manager, reporting to the Purchasing Governance Office Lead, you will play a key role in shaping and delivering our Purchasing governance, transformation and risk management agenda. You will lead strategic initiatives, represent Purchasing within the Third-Party Risk Governance framework, support company integrations, and drive the implementation of new processes, tools and ways of working across our global organization. This is an opportunity to combine project management, vendor risk, governance and digital transformation, while working closely with stakeholders across Purchasing, Risk, Compliance, Security, Legal, Privacy and IT.

• Lead strategic Purchasing transformation projects, including process improvements, technology implementations, automation and AI-enabled initiatives.
• Manage project scope, timelines, risks, dependencies and stakeholder engagement, ensuring successful delivery and adoption.
• Identify opportunities to simplify and digitalize Purchasing processes and improve operational efficiency, controls and user experience.
• Represent Purchasing within the Third-Party Risk Governance framework, ensuring risk and governance requirements are effectively embedded into Purchasing processes.
• Drive the continuous improvement of vendor onboarding, due diligence, monitoring and offboarding processes.
• Partner with Risk, Compliance, Security, Legal, Privacy and Internal Control teams to translate governance requirements into practical and scalable solutions.
• Monitor relevant operational KPIs and contribute to governance, analytics and reporting improvements.
• Act as a key Purchasing escalation point for vendor risk and third-party governance topics.
• Lead Purchasing activities related to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and business integrations, assessing impacts on suppliers, contracts, processes and systems.
• Develop integration and transition plans and support acquired businesses in adopting Purchasing policies, processes and tools.
• Work with Category Managers and other stakeholders to identify supplier synergies, manage contract transitions and maintain continuity throughout integration activities.
• Drive change management, communication, testing and training to support the successful adoption of new tools, processes and ways of working.

🌟 A hybrid working model - We want our employees to do their best work; however the hybrid model works best for them.

Purchasing Risk & Transformation Manager