Director of Procurement
Chainalysis Inc.
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: New York City • New York • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $158,000 - $264,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
About the role
- Partner closely with Finance to manage vendor spend in line with budgets, forecasts, and company-wide financial objectives, driving cost savings and cost avoidance through disciplined renewals, pricing benchmarks, demand management, and structured sourcing strategies.
- Own the vendor portfolio with a mandate to rationalize and consolidate software and technology vendors, reducing redundancy, improving utilization, and lowering total cost of ownership.
- Lead high-impact negotiations across key spend categories, particularly software and technology, running competitive RFx processes and negotiating pricing, contract structures, and commercial terms that deliver measurable financial outcomes.
- Act as a strategic business partner by providing financial analysis, market intelligence, and pricing benchmarks to guide vendor selection and spending decisions early in the purchasing lifecycle.
- Own and automate the end-to-end procure-to-pay process, including intake, vendor onboarding, spend review, approvals, and purchasing, while enforcing procurement policy and a strict “no purchase order, no pay” standard.
- Identify and implement workflow automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency, spend visibility, compliance, and scalability of procurement operations.
- Ensure procurement processes support strong financial controls, audit readiness, and policy compliance while remaining efficient and user-friendly for stakeholders.
- Define and track procurement KPIs focused on savings, vendor concentration, utilization, and procurement ROI, delivering clear, data-driven reporting to Finance and executive leadership.
- Partner closely with Legal, Security, and Compliance to manage contract risk, third-party due diligence, and regulatory considerations across the vendor lifecycle.
- Drive change management and stakeholder enablement to ensure procurement policies, tools, and processes are well understood, adopted, and embedded across the organization.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, ideally in a high-growth technology or SaaS company
- Demonstrated success driving cost savings, vendor rationalization, and software consolidation initiatives
- Strong financial acumen, with the ability to tie procurement decisions directly to budgets, forecasts, and unit economics
- Deep negotiation experience across software and technology categories; comfort partnering with Legal and redlining contracts
- Experience operating as a strategic business partner, influencing cross-functional leaders without direct authority
- Familiarity with modern procurement and spend-management tools (e.g., Coupa, Zip, Omnea, Levelpath)
- Ability to thrive in lean environments with evolving processes and priorities
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Offers Bonus
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
procurementstrategic sourcingvendor managementfinancial analysiscost savingsvendor rationalizationnegotiationworkflow automationprocure-to-pay processKPI tracking
Soft skills
financial acumeninfluencingchange managementstakeholder enablementcross-functional collaboration