Procurement Lead
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About the Role
Airalo is hiring a Procurement Lead to build the procurement function from the ground up, driving standardization and savings across major spend categories. This senior role involves designing procurement policy, leading high-value negotiations, and partnering with the CFO.
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Responsibilities
- Design and roll out Airalo's procurement policy, delegation of authority thresholds, supplier onboarding, and competitive tendering standards
- Own category strategies across major spend areas: network and infrastructure, S&M, IT and SaaS, and professional services
- Build single source of truth with spend visibility and vendor taxonomy
- Lead competitive sourcing and high value negotiations on a total cost of ownership basis
- Own master agreements, renewals calendar, supplier performance, and third party risk and due diligence
- Follow through the PO/PR process and three way match, support clean accruals, and embed procurement into the ERP
Requirements
- 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or commercial / category management
- Deep category expertise across indirect spend (marketing, IT/SaaS, professional services)
- Exposure to network, telecom, or infrastructure spend
- Track record of running competitive tenders and complex negotiations with measurable savings
- Hands on experience designing PO/PR and purchase to pay processes within an ERP environment
- Strong command of procurement policy, delegation of authority, supplier risk, and controls
- Influence without authority: credible with senior leaders across Networks, Marketing, and Technology
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About the Role
- We are hiring the Procurement Lead to build the procurement function and policy from the ground up and drive standardization and savings across our largest spend categories: Networks, Sales & Marketing, and IT/Software.
- You will design how Airalo buys, embed a disciplined purchase to pay process into our new ERP, and turn fragmented, function by function spending into a governed, competitive, and auditable process.
- This is a senior role for a builder who will set the policy, run the high value negotiations, and deliver hard savings that fund growth and protect EBITDA.
- You will report to the CFO and partner across every spending function in the company.
What You'll Do
- Design and roll out Airalo's procurement policy, delegation of authority thresholds, supplier onboarding, and competitive tendering standards.
- Establish clear, proportionate approval workflows that bring control without slowing the business.
- Own the category strategies across the major spend areas: network and infrastructure spends, S&M (agencies, media, martech), IT and SaaS, and professional services.
- Build single source of truth with spends visibility and a vendor taxonomy so we know what we buy, from whom, and on what terms; build standardization and a framework to adhere to credit terms.
- Maintain a validated savings pipeline reported with Finance, and ensure segregation of duties, audit trail, and anti fraud controls aligned to the SOX lite framework.
- Lead competitive sourcing and high value negotiations on a total cost of ownership basis; set and deliver savings targets and improve working capital.
- Partner with Finance's zero based budgeting and the process to convert sourcing wins into budgeted savings.
- Own master agreements, a renewals calendar, supplier performance, and third party risk and due diligence.
- Follow through the PO/PR process and three way match, support clean accruals, and embed procurement into the ERP as a core stakeholder.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or commercial / category management, including building or materially scaling a procurement function in a fast growth company.
- Deep category expertise across indirect spend (marketing, IT/SaaS, professional services); exposure to network, telecom, or infrastructure spend like capacity, routing, wholesale in a must have.
- Track record of running competitive tenders and complex negotiations with measurable, validated savings.
- Hands on experience designing PO/PR and purchase to pay processes, potentially within an ERP (SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft) environment.
- Strong command of procurement policy, delegation of authority, supplier risk, and controls.
- Influence without authority: credible with senior leaders across Networks, Marketing, and Technology, able to change buying behaviour with evidence.
Benefits
- Health Insurance, work from anywhere stipend, annual wellness & learning credits, annual all expenses paid company retreat in a gorgeous destination & other benefits
Salary
- UK: £65,000 £88,500 a year
- Spain: €61,000 €83,000 a year
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