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About the role
The Procurement Lead develops and executes strategic sourcing and category management strategies that deliver value, optimize spend, and strengthen supplier performance across the organization. The role shapes high-impact outsourcing strategies and partners with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges, design effective sourcing and commercial approaches, and build supplier relationships that deliver measurable, sustainable value. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, category management, supply chain, supplier management, contracting, or a related field
- 3+ years experience leading end-to-end strategic sourcing initiatives, including RFIs, RFPs, RFQs, supplier evaluations, and negotiations
- Experience drafting, negotiating and executing complex contracts and amendments in partnership with Legal, Finance, Risk and business stakeholders
- Experience sourcing complex services and leading outsourcing or managed-services category strategies, experience with professional services, technology, or other enterprise-level categories is also valued
- Experience developing and executing multi-year category and sourcing strategies using spend analysis, market intelligence, supplier benchmarking, and financial analysis
- Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including experience using data to build business cases, scenario analyses, cost models, forecasts, total-cost-of-ownership assessments, and executive-level recommendations
More about this role
The Procurement Lead develops and executes strategic sourcing and category management strategies that deliver value, optimize spend, and strengthen supplier performance across the organization. The role shapes high-impact outsourcing strategies and partners with senior leaders to solve complex business challenges, design effective sourcing and commercial approaches, and build supplier relationships that deliver measurable, sustainable value.
Success in this fast-paced, evolving environment requires strategic thinking, commercial acumen, analytical rigor, and a strong executive presence. The Procurement Lead must confidently articulate complex business cases, influence senior leaders, and translate complex information into clear recommendations and decisions.
The Procurement Lead operates across business strategy, operations, finance, risk, technology, and the supplier marketplace, building trusted partnerships and influencing across the enterprise. The role requires curiosity, confidence, and collaboration to challenge assumptions, navigate ambiguity, bring diverse perspectives together, and drive alignment around the best path forward.
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