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About the role
Benchling is looking for a Head of Procurement to lead how we buy. You'll be a senior individual contributor reporting to the Chief Accounting Officer with broad influence across and responsibility for our third-party spend in cloud infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, and professional services, and over our travel and expense program. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, with most of that experience at technology or SaaS companies
- A reputation as a trusted business partner who balances commercial results with stakeholder needs and long-term vendor relationships
- Ability to understand why the business needs a solution and how it fits into the broader product vision
- Leading-practice procurement process design: demonstrated results from process redesign and simplification, leveraging AI and automation, with good judgment about where they help and where they don't
- Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills at an executive level. You can make a clear case for value with data-driven analysis based on usage, benchmark, and total-cost data, and influence decisions without authority
- Experience designing third-party risk processes with Security, Legal, and Compliance partners
More about this role
We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits. Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps. AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years. But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D. Scientists use Benchling to design experiments, capture structured data, and run AI agents and models directly in their workflows. Over 200,000 scientists around the world trust Benchling to power their most important work, from academic labs to Sanofi, Moderna, and more than half of the world's top 50 biopharma.
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