Senior Procurement Manager - Data Centers

<p><strong>This is Adyen</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&amp;M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At Adyen, everything we do is engineered for ambition.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.</span></p> <p><strong>Senior Procurement Manager - Data Centers</strong></p> <p>We are looking for a fast learner and hands-on Procurement Manager to join Adyen's Procurement team, a dynamic global team within our Finance function. The goal of the team is to contribute to Adyen’s 10x ambition through sustainable commercial decisions, risk mitigation, contract and vendor management, ultimately empowering stakeholders to deliver their strategies. You will work in the data center category, alongside another category manager and a supply chain manager, but as Adyen grows, and the Procurement team with it, this scope might change and increase in the future.</p> <p><strong>What you'll do</strong></p> <ul> <li>Act as a business partner to stakeholders such as Infrastructure, Data Center Engineering, Legal and Sustainability, delivering value and enabling their strategies.</li> <li>Lead and initiate commercial negotiations, including but not limited to contract renewals and setting up new agreements.</li> <li>Be responsible for the supplier selection process, RFx and screening.&nbsp;</li> <li>Work with the Infrastructure team on roadmaps, including our DC expansion plans.</li> <li>Do vendor monitoring on performance and contractual agreements.</li> <li>Be tracking and reporting on industry trends.</li> <li>Build and maintain relationships with key vendors.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Who you are</strong></p> <ul> <li>7+ years of relevant experience, including category management or sourcing.</li> <li>Deep knowledge and experience of and within the Data Center space, hardware and services.</li> <li>Well-organized and like to solve problems with a pragmatic approach.&nbsp;</li> <li>Data driven with an analytical mindset.&nbsp;</li> <li>A natural networker, great in stakeholder management and negotiations.&nbsp;</li> <li>Proficient in English; fluency in ano