Vendor Management Expert (People & Culture)(m/f/d)_2901

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 in our function — ensuring compliant, consistent, and efficient engagements. A key focus is defining and implementing a vendor management strategy: creating transparency across the current P&C vendor landscape, establishing a governance framework aligned with the P&C strategy, and standardizing SLAs, performance scorecards, and accounting practices in close collaboration with Finance.

What you do

• 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 and assess best-fit vendors; conduct market scans, capability assessments, due diligence, and act as PC&S lead for 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.
• In alignment with global Procurement, design and operate standardized vendor onboarding and offboarding processes for the PC&S function defined by scope, including controls, access management, knowledge transfer, and risk mitigation.
• Establish vendor governance: operating cadence, QBRs, performance scorecards, risk management, and improvement plans; implement a benchmarking framework across cost, quality, delivery, innovation, and risk.
• Collaborate with Finance to standardize accounting taxonomy, plan and track spend, and develop dashboards and reporting for performance and spend insights — delivering data-driven recommendations for renewals, consolidation, or exits.
• Drive vendor rationalization and portfolio optimization to reduce complexity, improve value realization and, in collaboration with respective global expert teams, ensure full alignment with Allianz procurement policies and P&C governance.

What you bring

• Extensive vendor management and procurement experience in a global 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 standardizing 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 standardizing 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.

What we offer

• We offer a hybrid work model which recognizes the value of striking a balance between in-person collaboration and remote working incl. up to 25 days per year working from abroad.
• We believe in rewarding performance and our compensation and benefits package includes a company bonus scheme, pension, employee shares program and multiple employee discounts (details vary by location).
• From career development and digital learning programs to international career mobility, we offer lifelong learning for our employees worldwide and an environment where innovation, delivery and empowerment are fostered.
• Flexible working, health and wellbeing offers (including healthcare and parental leave benefits) support to balance family and career and help our people return from career breaks with experience that nothing else can teach.