About the Job

As a Vendor Management Expert within the People, Culture & Sustainability (PC&S;) function, you shape the global vendor landscape for PC&S; services. You partner with PC&S; leaders to define needs, act as the PC&S; lead for RfPs, and oversee vendor onboarding and offboarding, ensuring compliant, consistent, and efficient engagements. A key focus is defining and implementing a vendor management strategy that creates transparency across the current vendor landscape, establishes a governance framework aligned with the PC&S; strategy, and standardises SLAs, performance scorecards and accounting practices in close collaboration with Finance.

Responsibilities

- Build and maintain a global P&C; vendor inventory and taxonomy, mapping services, contracts, ownership, spend and performance across markets.
- Define and implement a global vendor management strategy – including short‑ and long‑term actions – that supports both the P&C; strategy and broader business needs.
- Partner with P&C; product houses to identify business needs, assess best‑fit vendors, conduct market scans, capability assessments, due diligence and lead RfI/RfP processes end‑to‑end with transparent and auditable decisions.
- Support global Procurement and Legal teams to ensure robust SLAs with clear cost association, KPIs, data privacy, information security and compliance clauses.
- Design and operate standardised vendor onboarding and off‑boarding processes for the PC&S; function, including controls, access management, knowledge transfer and risk mitigation.




- Establish vendor governance (operating cadence, QBRs, performance scorecards, risk management and improvement plans) and implement a benchmarking framework across cost, quality, delivery, innovation and risk.
- Collaborate with Finance to standardise accounting taxonomy, plan and track spend, develop dashboards and reporting for performance and spend insights, and deliver data‑driven recommendations for renewals, consolidation or exits.
- Drive vendor rationalisation and portfolio optimisation to reduce complexity, improve value‑realisation and ensure full alignment with Allianz procurement policies and P&C; governance.

Qualifications

- Extensive vendor management and procurement experience in a integral environment, ideally supporting People & Culture or other corporate functions.
- Experience leading RfIs/RfPs and/or vendor selection processes.
- Expertise in defining SLAs/KPIs, operating governance and performance scorecards; strong analytical and benchmarking skills.
- Solid financial acumen: budgeting, forecasting, accruals and variance analysis; experience standardising accounting practices with Finance.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across People & Culture, Procurement,



Legal, Information Security and Finance.
- Process‑oriented mindset with change‑management experience; skilled at standardising ways of working and managing vendor transitions.
- Excellent communication skills and a collaborative approach to working across diverse, cross‑functional teams.
- Familiarity with AI technologies and GenAI platforms is a strong advantage.

Benefits

- Hybrid work model recognising the value of balancing in‑person collaboration and remote working, including up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
- Compensation and benefits package that includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares programme and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
- Career development and digital learning programmes, international career mobility and lifelong learning opportunities for employees worldwide.
- Flexible working, health and well‑being offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) to support balancing family and career and to help employees return from career breaks.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer and encourage applications regardless of race, ethnicity, cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, social class, disability, sexual orientation or any other characteristics protected under applicable local laws and regulations.

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📌 Vendor Management Expert (People & Culture)(M/F/D)
🏢 Allianz Commercial
📍 Barcelona