Strategic IT Vendor Management & Procurement Lead

Capital; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary

Work-Life Harmony

Annual Bonus

Generous Time Off

Employee Referral Program

Health & Pension Benefits

Workation 30 days remote

Volunteer Days

Job summary

Capital.com seeks an IT Procurement Lead to own third-party management and procurement, delivering strategy set by the VP of IT Operations. Manage the full lifecycle for hardware, software and IT services, from sourcing to offboarding, as a fast yet controlled entry point for the business.

In a regulated environment, you will design repeatable workflows, leverage automation and AI, and collaborate with Legal, Security and Compliance to mitigate risk while enabling speed.

Qualifications

• Experience leading vendor or third-party management and procurement in a regulated organisation (FCA, CySEC or similar).
• Track record delivering against strategy and roadmap while bringing own judgment to reach outcomes.
• Ability to build processes from scratch: documenting procedures and visualising workflows.
• Strong process rollout skills: train people, gather feedback and iterate until the process works in practice.
• Experience running the full vendor lifecycle and IT procurement (sourcing, negotiation, contracts, renewals, offboarding).
• Comfort scoping controls to risk and working with Legal, Security and Compliance as defined interfaces.
• People leadership: you lead a procurement team, set standards and develop people.
• Excellent negotiation and stakeholder skills across business, engineering and control functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT third-party management and procurement and deliver it against the strategy and priorities set by the VP of IT Operations.
• Own and run the third-party lifecycle end to end: search, onboarding, relationship management and offboarding, as defined, repeatable processes.
• Own procurement of hardware, software and IT services, from sourcing and negotiation through purchase and renewal, as a single front-loaded entry point.
• Scope controls to vendor risk through triage and tiering: first-pass assessment runs in the team, with Legal, Security, Compliance and IT Compliance confirming under agreed SLAs.
• Design processes from scratch: document procedures, visualise workflows, then roll them out with training, feedback and iteration until they actually work.
• Use process automation and AI to front-load checks and cut manual effort across the lifecycle.
• Partner with Asset Management and FinOps so vendor, contract, spend and asset data stay one non-duplicated source of truth.
• Give Finance and Treasury forward visibility of spend and payments: what, when, how much, which entity, which method.
• Meet third-party regulatory and audit obligations by design (DORA register of information and similar), so reports are extracted, not assembled by hand.
• Line-manage and develop the IT Procurement team; set direction, priorities and quality bars.

Skills

Vendor management

Strategic planning

Process design

Change management

Vendor lifecycle

Risk & compliance

Leadership

Negotiation

Tools

Jira

Job description

Capital.com seeks an IT Procurement Lead to own third-party management and procurement, delivering strategy set by the VP of IT Operations. Manage the full lifecycle for hardware, software and IT services, from sourcing to offboarding, as a fast yet controlled entry point for the business.

In a regulated environment, you will design repeatable workflows, leverage automation and AI, and collaborate with Legal, Security and Compliance to mitigate risk while enabling speed.