Own the vendor-request intake and selection process from structured business need through evaluation and signed agreement.
Lead commercial negotiations for our largest and most strategic spend, including consumption-based cloud and AI commitments.
Create category strategies, leadership briefing materials, and negotiation playbooks that help teams secure strong outcomes across cloud, AI, SaaS, services, and contractors.

Own the vendor portfolio across onboarding, performance management, renewal, consolidation, and offboarding.
Reduce SaaS sprawl by tracking adoption, identifying overlapping or underused tools, and taking deliberate action on renewals.
Surface shadow IT and shadow AI while applying robust evaluation standards to AI vendors, APIs, data handling, access controls, and consumption-based spend.

Manage the contract lifecycle from intake and drafting support through commercial negotiation, execution, central storage, and obligation tracking.
Independently negotiate commercial terms while routing legal redlining, security, privacy, and specialist reviews to the appropriate owners.
Maintain proactive renewal calendars, consistent vendor-risk processes, and traceable records that remain audit-ready across all entities.

Govern outbound spend across vendors, travel, expenses, corporate cards, and contractors through clear policies and approval thresholds.
Partner with FP&A to manage vendor spend against OpEx budgets and feed accurate actuals into financial planning.
Build automated approvals, alerts, and always-on reporting, with particular visibility into consumption-based cloud and AI costs.

🚀 Function-building experience: You’ve meaningfully built or rebuilt a procurement or spend-management function rather than only operating an established one.
🛒 Procurement expertise: You have deep experience across sourcing, vendor management, category strategy, and contracts, ideally within a fast-scaling technology or SaaS company.
🤝 Commercial negotiation: You independently review and negotiate commercial agreements and have secured strong terms on significant commitments, ideally including consumption-based cloud or AI spend.
💸 Spend-ownership mindset: You treat company money with care and bring discipline to how spend is approved, committed, monitored, and reported.
🧩 Operator mindset: You turn ambiguous, manual workflows into clear, scalable processes and take ownership from initial problem through measurable outcome.
🤖 AI-native working style: You instinctively use AI and automation to remove repetitive work and are excited to build your own processes using n8n.

Procurement and Spend Manager