Senior Manager, Global Sourcing – Corporate Vendor Management

Job Title: Senior Manager, Global Sourcing – Corporate Vendor Management

Location: Oxford, G

We believe in bold ideas, diverse perspectives, and the drive to transform knowledge into impact. Here, your curiosity fuels progress, your voice shapes innovation, and your ambition helps redefine what’s possible within science and learning. We are a culture that obsesses over impact, challenges, and drives what’s next to power infinite possibilities for our customers, colleagues and society at large.

The Sr. Manager, Global Sourcing – Corporate Vendor Management is a newly created leadership position focused on ensuring transparency, governance, and compliance throughout the vendor lifecycle. This role provides enterprise-wide oversight on key areas such as Vendor Risk, ESG, Contracts, IT Security & Compliance, Data Protection, Social Responsibility, and Business Continuity. The Sr. Manager collaborates across business units, corporate functions, and sourcing teams to develop and uphold robust vendor management standards that address changing business and regulatory needs.

The ideal candidate is a strategic, detail-oriented professional with extensive sourcing compliance and vendor governance experience, capable of independently solving complex challenges and mentoring others. This position is highly collaborative, requiring effective stakeholder engagement and the enforcement of essential policies and procedures.

• Lead enterprise Corporate Vendor Management strategy, establishing standardized vendor governance, risk management, and operating models across the organization.
• Own end-to-end vendor lifecycle oversight, ensuring consistent standards, risk mitigation, and remediation from onboarding through offboarding.
• Direct governance, policy compliance, and MSP oversight, driving adherence, reporting, remediation, and value realization across vendor and contingent workforce programs.
• Drive continuous improvement and innovation, leveraging process optimization, automation, and AI initiatives to enhance efficiency and control.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Sourcing and/or Procurement Management.
• 3-5 years experience with Vendor Risk Management and Compliance Frameworks.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and sourcing tools (e.g., Ariba, Coupa).
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

For more than 200 years, we've transformed knowledge into discoveries that shape the world. Today, our global team of innovators, creators, and experts is driving what's next in science, education, and publishing—creating impact that reaches everywhere. We're not just observers of progress. We're the ones accelerating scientific breakthroughs, advancing learning, and sparking innovation that redefines entire fields and improves lives. Here, your talent matters.

Your ideas have room to grow. And your work creates breakthroughs that can change everything.

Wiley is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We evaluate all qualified applicants and treat all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or based on any individual's status in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state or local laws. Wiley is also committed to providing reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees with disabilities.

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We are proud that our workplace promotes continual learning and internal mobility. Our values support courageous teammates, needle movers, and learning champions all while striving to support the health and well-being of all employees. We offer meeting-free Friday afternoons allowing more time for heads‑down work and professional development, and through a robust body of employee programming we facilitate a wide range of opportunities to foster community, learn, and grow.

We are committed to fair, transparent pay, and we strive to provide competitive compensation in addition to a comprehensive benefits package. The range below represents Wiley's good faith and reasonable estimate of the base pay for this role at the time of posting roles either in the United Kingdom, Canada or USA.

50,900 GBP to 72,900 GBP

When applying, please attach your resume/CV to be considered.