Procurement Manager; f​/m​/d

Location

Berlin

Full time

Hybrid

Operations

At Upvest, we are on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money
. Upvest empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and financial institutions can save resources and fully focus on their core business.

We are proud to partner with Europe’s leading Fintechs and financial institutions such as DKB, Revolut, N26 and Raisin. Founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing, Upvest now brings together over 270 talented professionals from more than 70 nationalities. Upvest is backed by €280M in total funding from world-class investors, including Black Rock, Tencent, Sapphire Ventures, and Bessemer Venture Partners, Earlybird, Notion Capital, and Motive.

Our latest €105M funding round in March 2026 - led by Sapphire and Tencent - serves as a massive catalyst for our growth, allowing us to offer premier investment experience.

Procurement at Upvest is currently fragmented — ownership is split across teams, there is no decision logic to route requests by risk or size, and no single person is accountable end-to-end. That changes with this hire.

As the first dedicated Procurement Manager at Upvest, you will move our vendor management from a decentralized model to a centralized, professional powerhouse. You will own the entire lifecycle of our partnerships - from initial sourcing and technical vetting to contract expiration management. Reporting to the Head of Network, you will bridge the gap between operational needs, financial discipline, and regulatory compliance.

This is not a process improvement project. What we need is permanent ownership: a single person accountable for end-to-end procurement, with the institutional knowledge and authority to drive outcomes.

• Centralized Procurement Ownership: Act as the sole lead for all procurement activities  will manage the full lifecycle for Indirect Spend (SaaS, IT, Services) and provide strategic and administrative support for Direct Spend (Trading, Custody, Market Data).

• Procurement Tool Product Owner: Act as the company-wide "go-to" person and administrator for our procurement tool. You will be responsible for its further setup, creating internal work instructions, and training stakeholders to ensure the tool is used effectively across the organization.

• Policy & Process Architecture: Build and enhance Upvest’s procurement policies and processes. This includes implementing a risk-tiered decision tree (e.g. Legal review thresholds by contract value), a fast-track review path for expanded use cases of already-approved tools, and standardised business case templates to eliminate back-and-forth before the process can begin. You will create clear work instructions that ensure our procurement journey is transparent, audit-ready, and efficient.

• Contract Lifecycle Management: Proactively manage contract expirations and notice periods through our procurement tool. You will partner with internal business owners well in advance of deadlines to ensure informed "renew vs. cancel" decisions.

• Regulatory & Risk Guardrail: Work closely with our 2nd-line Outsourcing Management to ensure compliance with MaRisk/DORA/NIS2/KRITIS. While business owners hold primary responsibility for their specific tools, you will provide the oversight and structure to ensure all regulatory requirements are met.

• Technical Sourcing: Leverage your understanding of cloud infrastructure (e.g., GCP) to challenge technical spend and negotiate favorable Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

• Finance Partnership: Maintain a close collaboration with the Finance team to ensure all procurement activities align with company budgets and financial reporting.

• Experience: 5+ years in procurement or strategic sourcing, ideally within a high-growth Fintech or a regulated financial institution.

• Technical Literacy: An understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud providers. You speak the language of both Finance and Engineering.

• Process Mindset: You are deeply…