JumpCloud

Senior Procurement Operations Manager

JumpCloud

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇮🇳 India

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AndroidERPLinuxRPA

About the role

  • Reports to VP of Finance and partners with Finance, Legal, Security and functional leadership to drive procurement operational excellence.
  • Manage day-to-day sourcing and vendor management processes; establish, track and drive KPIs; create roadmap for procurement operations.
  • Build strategic sourcing discipline and procurement operations.
  • Negotiate cost-effective contracts with key suppliers and support business partners evaluating procurement options.
  • Evaluate sourcing procedures and present improvement strategies to senior management.
  • Establish and implement processes for monitoring SaaS renewals timely.
  • Analyze procurement costs and develop cost reduction strategies.
  • Evaluate contract terms with Legal to mitigate contract risk.
  • Manage SLAs between business partners, Finance, Legal and Security for vendor and contract reviews.
  • Develop processes to support overall vendor management including security reviews.
  • Maintain key strategic sourcing relationships and develop strong partnerships.

Requirements

  • Sound knowledge of vendor management, negotiation strategies and experience in a similar role.
  • Proven experience securing favorable pricing and terms with major SaaS vendor categories (e.g. CRM, HRIS, ERP, etc.).
  • Experience building and maturing a procurement operations function.
  • Excellent organizational and time management skills.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent preferred; progressive experience accepted in lieu of degree.
  • 8-10 years of experience in business operations, finance or procurement; 4+ years in procurement related activities.
  • Specialized certification in supply chain - CPSM / CIPS a differentiator.
  • Experience with SaaS procurement and managing SaaS license renewals required.
  • Skills in RPA and automation leveraging internal and 3rd party applications.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Highly adaptable team player.
  • Extremely organized, Strong attention to details, Problem solving abilities.
  • Experience in G-suite and/or MS Office; experience in Jira, Asana, procurement tools preferred.
  • Ability to work with minimal supervision.
  • Previous experience building procurement operations functions and supervising teams.