Global Procurement & Vendor Strategy Lead

Culture Amp Pty Ltd; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity program

Learning programs

Wellbeing allowance

Parental leave

MacBook setup

Social impact days

Medical insurance

Job summary

Culture Amp is seeking a commercially minded Global Procurement and Vendor Management Lead to bring visibility and value to third party spend across APAC, US and EMEA. You will own vendor management, lead renewal strategies and build governance frameworks.

You’ll partner with Finance, Legal, Security and Technology, drive negotiations, and manage a small specialist team in a high-growth tech environment. This hybrid Melbourne role requires two office days weekly.

Qualifications

• Proven track record negotiating third-party agreements and delivering measurable savings.
• Deep experience with technology and SaaS categories, including licensing, pricing, renewals, and vendor negotiation tactics.
• Strong financial and commercial judgement with budgeting and option modelling for exec audiences.
• Built vendor management or procurement frameworks from a low base and driven adoption across an organisation.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to present recommendations clearly.

Responsibilities

• Own the global procurement and vendor management function across APAC, the US and EMEA, maintaining visibility of agreements, renewal dates, notice periods, owners and annual value.
• Partner with Workplace, Finance, Legal, Security and Technology on supplier relationships, property commitments and capital projects, ensuring decisions are commercially sound and appropriately governed.
• Set commercial strategy and lead negotiations for third party agreements, delivering measurable savings and protecting Culture Amp’s commercial position.
• Rationalise the vendor portfolio by analysing usage, licensing and overlap, and recommend the right balance of consolidation, commitment, flexibility and investment.
• Own third party technology spend budgeting and forecasting, reporting actuals, variance, savings opportunities and supplier performance to leadership.
• Build and maintain the vendor management and procurement framework, including policy, approval thresholds, intake processes and commercial governance.
• Use automation and AI enabled tools to improve spend analysis, renewal preparation and negotiation drafting, creating leverage in a lean function.
• Lead, coach and develop a small specialist team while influencing stakeholders across the organisation through clear, decision ready advice.

Skills

Negotiations

Technology & SaaS

Budgeting & forecasting

Vendor management framework

Cross-functional partnering

Leadership

Automation / AI tools

Security & risk review

Contract lifecycle management

Job description

Culture Amp is seeking a commercially minded Global Procurement and Vendor Management Lead to bring visibility and value to third party spend across APAC, US and EMEA. You will own vendor management, lead renewal strategies and build governance frameworks.

You’ll partner with Finance, Legal, Security and Technology, drive negotiations, and manage a small specialist team in a high-growth tech environment. This hybrid Melbourne role requires two office days weekly.