Procurement Lead

Role overview

Accountabilities

• Own strategic cloud and SaaS vendor relationships and lead contract negotiations and renewals with Finance and Legal.
• Establish procurement governance, bidding, approval thresholds, benchmarking, and managed-procurement coordination.
• Define the Procurement and FinOps operating model, roadmap, processes, and standards.
• Manage direct reports, team delivery, development, performance, project tracking, and stakeholder communication.
• Analyze expenditure, usage, and licensing; drive renewals, right-sizing, consolidation, and measurable savings.
• Build vendor and SaaS cost dashboards and reporting systems; define spending policies and cost controls.
• Coordinate cloud cost optimization with Engineering and track opportunities through realized savings.

Requirements

• At least 8 years in procurement, vendor or commercial management, FinOps, or technical and financial analysis, including senior-level ownership.
• Experience with strategic vendor management, commercial negotiations, and renewals.
• Knowledge of procurement governance, bidding, benchmarking, approvals, and managed-procurement partnerships.
• Hands-on dashboard and reporting experience using SQL, BI tools, or similar technologies.
• Ability to analyze AWS and GCP cloud costs, SaaS billing, licensing, and usage data.
• Strong financial analysis, communication, stakeholder management, strategic judgment, and influence.
• Experience in remote-first or globally distributed organizations; able to build functions and processes from the ground up.
• Demonstrated people management, team development, and performance management.

Benefits

• Remote work with a WeWork membership or coworking allowance, technology allowance, and flexible asynchronous arrangements.
• Equity ownership, health coverage, annual company off-sites, and an annual professional development allowance.