Head of Procurement (FinTech), 12-month Fixed Term Contract

Head of Procurement (FinTech), 12-month Fixed Term Contract

GoHenry is a UK-based fintech company created by parents to pioneer financial education. More recently, GoHenry moved into Europe and the US by joining forces with French fintech company PixPay and US investing app, Acorns.

Together, Acorns, PixPay, and GoHenry have over 6 million members across 5 countries. We are focused on empowering families with engaging money management tools, educational content, and a seamless product experience that creates financial well-being from birth to adulthood. Join us on our mission to make every kid smart with money!

We are looking for a sharp, agile, and forward-thinking strategic Head of Procurement to own and enhance our procurement related processes.

As the Gohenry Head of Procurement, you won’t just help with managing costs; you will be a strategic business partner responsible for managing commercial contract negotiations and oversight of governance relative to our existing vendor base. You will oversee the end-to-end procurement and vendor governance lifecycle for material categories, including cloud infrastructure, SaaS, third-party APIs, and professional services. You will bridge the gap between our internal support functions to ensure we partner with top-tier vendors that match our speed, culture, and regulatory standards, while iterating the third-party risk management framework the business requires.

What you will do at GoHenry:

• Category Management & Sourcing: Lead end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives for IT, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), AWS/GCP cloud infrastructure, data feeds, and specialised FinTech tooling.

• Material Vendor Negotiation: Working with the GoHenry Legal Team and vendor account owners to commercialise and negotiate complex, multi-year vendor contracts to maximise value, ensure scalability, and protect the company bottom line.

• Risk & Compliance Collaboration: Partner closely with Information Security (InfoSec), Operational Risk, and Legal teams to ensure all vendors comply with applicable regulatory requirements, including FCA rules and guidance, e-money regulations, operational resilience requirements, and supporting standards such as PCI-DSS and SOC2.

• Stakeholder Alignment: Act as a trusted advisor to Engineering, Product, and Executive teams, transforming their requirements into commercial agreements.

• Supplier Relationship Management (SRM): Develop and track vendor KPIs and SLAs, ensuring critical partners deliver on their promises and continuously innovate alongside our Product, Tech and Ops teams.

• Process Optimisation: Help iterate and automate our procurement infrastructure, implementing modern tooling to move away from legacy approval chains.

• Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM): Formalise and own GoHenry's TPRM framework, including vendor risk tiering, onboarding due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and board-level reporting on vendor risk.

• Vendor Resilience & Continuity: Identify single-point-of-failure vendor dependencies, develop contingency and exit strategies for critical suppliers, and maintain an up-to-date vendor contingency risk map.

• Vendor Governance Lifecycle: Own the full vendor governance lifecycle end-to-end, including contract renewals and regulatory-driven vendor assessments.

What you will bring to GoHenry: (Requirements)

• Experience: 6+ years of experience in strategic procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management—ideally within a regulated Tech, SaaS, or FinTech or or financial services environment.

• The FinTech Mindset: You understand that "speed to market" is just as important as "cost savings." You see your role as a partnership with other teams and you use those relationships with both internal teams and vendors to unblock bottlenecks without cutting corners on compliance.

• Master Negotiator: A proven track record of dismantling complex pricing models and successfully negotiating with tech vendors.

• Analytical Rigor: Strong financial acumen; ability to build TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) models and ROI analyses.

• Communication: Strong interpersonal skills. You can speak "developer" to the engineering team and "ROI" to the CFO.

• TPRM Expertise: Direct experience iterating or operating a third-party risk management framework (ideally in a regulated financial services environment), including vendor risk tiering, due diligence, and ongoing monitoring.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience navigating financial and regulatory audits.

• Familiarity with modern procurement and spend-management software.

• Professional certifications (e.g., CIPS, CPSM).

• Working knowledge of FCA regulatory expectations for outsourcing and third-party risk management, including the FCA's operational resilience framework.

What’s in it for you?

All the essentials you would expect, including a workplace pension plan, 33 days of holiday (including public holidays), & great company events local & abroad!

Other Offers:

• GoFlex - Work from Home, Office, or a mix of both

• Your Birthday Day off

• 25 days annual leave, in addition to 8 UK bank holidays

• An excellent Induction & onboarding program with ongoing learning & development throughout your career

• A choice between Bupa Health Cash Plan or Bupa Private Medical

• Death in service – 4x your annual salary from month 1

• Physical and Mental Wellbeing support and platforms for you and your family

• Family-friendly leave policies

• Enhanced maternity leave – 20 weeks full basic pay after 2 years’ service and 26 weeks full basic pay after 3 years’ service

• Paternity leave – 4 weeks full pay after probation

• Salary Sacrifice options

About GoHenry

We’re on a mission to help every kid be smart with money. Our goal? Create generations of independent, confident young adults, armed with money skills that will set them up for life.

How we do it:

We place the power in the hands of young people, giving them the tools they need to master the financial ropes for themselves. They can spend, save, earn, and give with GoHenry’s prepaid debit card and app – because learning through doing really works (and it’s more fun!). All while our unique built-in controls give parents total peace of mind.

We’re proud to say...

• We ranked #38 in Newsweek's Top 100 Most Loved Workplaces in the UK in 2023

• We’re one of Tech Track’s top 50 fastest-growing UK companies.

• We won Finders Kid’s Cards Customer Satisfaction Awards in 2022 and 2023.

• We won the Tech for Good award at the Better Society Awards 2023

• Our kids and parents have donated over £500,000 of their own money to NSPCC via their GoHenry accounts

But we’re still growing, and that’s why we need you.

GoHenry is an equal-opportunity employer, and we’re on a mission to foster a diverse & inclusive workplace. Individuals seeking employment at GoHenry are considered without regard to race, religion, national origin, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.