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Who You'll Work With You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact. In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference. When you join us, you will have Continuous learning Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey. A voice that matters From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes. Global community With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Exceptional benefits In addition to a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we offer a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, mental health, and vision coverage for you, your spouse/partner, and children. Your Impact As an Operations Manager, Policy Adherence, you will be based in Prague, Poznan, Chennai, Gurugram or Manila as part of our Operations Policy Adherence team. This team drives adoption of preferred buying channels by planning, building, and overseeing consequence management processes for policy adherence. Reporting to the Manager of Operations, Policy Adherence, you will oversee Policy Adherence operations within Optimize’s Operations team. Your responsibilities will include leading the operational aspects of risk mitigation and compliance within Optimize, conducting research, auditing procurement processes, operationalizing policies, documenting standard operating procedures (SOP), expanding the scope of risk management, creating efficiency plans, and performing audits. You will also collaborate on the strategic direction of the Optimize Policy Adherence team in coordination with other teams, including Supplier Risk, Legal, Global Finance, Information Security, Risk, HR, and Compliance, along with other functions/groups across the Firm to support operations and process development. You will hold expense-related discussions with colleagues and senior Firm leaders. You will guide teammates in resolving highly complex and sensitive escalation issues related to policy, risk and compliance processes. You will provides expert guidance to resolve highly complex and sensitive escalation issues related to policy, risk, compliance and processes. You will measure and track team and partner performance (e.g., outsourcing partner); identify growth & improvement opportunities and collaborate with service providers (e.g., Coupa, Aravo, Uber, Lyft) to drive innovation for the respective team/category(s). You will also align with leadership on ESG & Risk strategies and implement and deliver on ESG & Risk strategies. Your work will minimize risk to our Firm as we work to set the standard for our profession. Your Qualifications and Skills Undergraduate degree; Advanced graduate degree (e.g., MBA, PhD, etc.) or equivalent work experience preferred; Degree / education requirements may vary by country or practice 3+ years of corporate and/or professional services experience Excellent organization capabilities, including the ability to initiate tasks independently and see them through to completion Proficient in rational decision making based on data, facts, and logical reasoning Ability to create materials, which may include PowerPoint decks, Excel models, articles, or other written deliverables Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment Ability to work or attend meetings outside of traditional business hours or take on projects with limited or no notice at times Experience with building, monitoring and addressing cases involving policy adherence, risk management, or compliance Strong communication skills, both verbal and written, in English and local office language(s), with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels Show more Show less
