About Remote

Remote is solving modern organizations’ biggest challenge – navigating global employment compliantly with ease. We make it possible for businesses of all sizes to recruit, pay, and manage international teams. With our core values at heart and future focused work culture, our team works tirelessly on ambitious problems, asynchronously, around the world. You can find Remoters working from 6 different continents (Antarctica left to go!) and all of our positions are fully remote.

With Innovation as one of the core values, we have built Automation and AI capabilities into the requirements for every role.

We encourage every member of the Remote team to bring their talents, experiences and culture to the table to help us build the best-in-class HR platform.

If you are energetic, curious, motivated and ambitious, be part of our world. Apply now and define the future of work!

What this job can offer you

As the Senior Manager, Global Payroll Vendor Partnership Management, you will own the end to end procurement of Global Payroll vendors, drive & maintain multiple payroll vendor projects with tight timelines, engage in positive, multi-stakeholder collaborations and drive continuous performance management reviews with external Global Payroll partners.

Leadership through hiring, mentoring and supporting a high-performance global team
Ownership of payroll vendor scoping, contract negotiations and relationship management
Drive Go-To-Market strategies for new country expansion and onboarding
Financial analysis partnering with FP&A and AP teams for revenue growth and cost efficiencies

What you bring

8+ years of work experience in a regional or global payroll operations/processing/implementation capacity.
5+ years of work experience with vendor relationship / vendor procurement / contract negotiations.
Excellent & proficient with payroll tax compliance regulations for 3 or more countries.
Positive leader mindset with ability to work independently and take ownership.
Excellent time management and organisational skills with extreme attention to detail
Excellent proficiency in using G-Sheets or Excel is a must.
Resilient and able to work in a fast-paced, international work environment with a passion for making an impact.
You understand the need and idea to work largely asynchronously.
It’s not required to have experience working remotely, but is considered a plus.
You must write and speak fluent English.

Key Responsibilities

Lead through our company values a global team that maintains vendor relationships and collaborates with cross-functional teams successfully.
Continuous market research for best-in-class and strategically-fit payroll vendors via networking, online researching, surveys, references, memberships and RFIs.
Create and maintain current financial cost analysis, comparisons, future ROI and profit margins.
Project manage the E2E for all Global Payroll and EOR in-housing payroll vendor setup, from vendor selection, to stakeholder alignment, migration, testing & communications.
Build, cultivate and maintain strong relationships with all our contracted payroll vendors across our different service platforms and different countries. Over 130 vendors and growing.
Review the tracking of Invoice costs with FP&A against PO cost analysis with Payroll Operations team and identify anomalies versus agreed contractual costs.
Drive and manage the contract negotiations between legal teams and executives that are financially and commercially beneficial to the business strategy and profit margin growth.

Practicals

You’ll report to: Director of Global Payroll Experience & Implementation
Team: Global Payroll Experience – Vendor Solutions
Location: For this position we welcome everyone to apply, but we will prioritise applications from the following locations as we encourage our teams to diversify; EMEA
Start date: ASAP

Job Overview

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Administrative & Support

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