Vendor & Commercial Manager

About the role

We are running a high-profile programme of work inside one of the region's largest and most matrixed financial organisations. Our vendor and commercial function sits at the intersection of finance, procurement and technology delivery high-frequency, transactional, and forecasting heavy and we are looking for two managers to add firepower underneath an experienced risk lead, who provides day-to-day line management and escalation support.

This is a role for someone who is genuinely comfortable with money: accruals, forecasts, invoices and cost models not just contracts and dashboards.

Start date – Immediate 6 – 12 month programme of work.

What you'll own

You will take end-to-end commercial ownership of our third-party population from sourcing through payment, forecasting and reporting including:

• Vendor financial operations: Timesheet and expense review for major suppliers, monthly accruals with finance; non-order invoice processing; PO delivery follow-up and GRN readiness. You will own and continuously evolve our monthly vendor cost forecasting process

• Procurement & Commercial Support: Raising purchase requisitions; supporting JSQs and IAMs; representing the vendor workstream in delivery meetings across Procurement, IT, Finance and Vendor Delivery.

• Vendor reporting & MI: Contract inventory maintenance; vendor payment records; BI report maintenance including quality-assuring AI-led contractual analysis with manual cross-checks.

• Strategic Vendor relationship management: Running vendor performance reviews and managing resource utilisation across key suppliers.

Why join

You'll step into a well-supported team with a strong leader above you, real ownership of a commercially critical process, and visibility across one of the largest vendor estates in the business with genuine scope to reshape how vendor cost forecasting is done.

What we're looking for

•         Strong finance fundamentals accruals, forecasting and cost management with advanced Excel as a given

•         Working knowledge of procurement processes and contract administration

•         Experience with SAP / FASC processes

•         Power BI or similar MI/reporting capability

•         The judgement to QA AI-driven outputs trusting the technology, verifying the numbers

•         Comfort operating in a highly matrixed, large-scale organisation, influencing across Finance, Procurement and IT without direct authority