Procurement Manager

Summary

Join Airtable as a Procurement Manager and focus on Procurement Operations, handling day-to-day operations and collaborating on optimizations, automation, training, and compliance. You will also contribute to sourcing, influencing tail spend across corporate and technology categories. The goal is to minimize risk, maximize value, and drive speed in a fast-paced environment. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams (business, systems, legal, IT, and finance). This role reports to the Head of Procurement. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, 6+ years in Procurement Operations and Sourcing, and experience in high-growth enterprise SaaS or technology public companies. Excellent communication and organizational skills are essential.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience
• 6+ years of Procurement Operations and Sourcing experience. Experience in high-growth enterprise SaaS or technology public companies is highly desirable
• Demonstrated success in collaborating with legal, security, accounts payable, finance and IT teams to ensure smooth and effective operations
• Skilled in navigating ambiguity, especially in an early-stage procurement environment
• Excellent organizational abilities, attention to detail, and strong written and oral communication skills. Ability to prioritize tasks, solve problems and take initiative
• Expertise in negotiating commercial terms and redlining vendor contracts for both technology and corporate categories and influencing tail spend
• Experience using procurement intake and financial/ERP systems, e-signature and contract lifecycle management tools

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day operations: Creating and onboarding new vendors and coordinating with business, finance and cross-functional (legal, security, IT) teams on urgent request approvals
• Contract Redlining: Redline SOW and Order forms for commercial terms and collaborate with legal on non-commercial terms
• Process Optimization: Develop fast-buy processes - P-card program, catalogs for repetitive and small purchases
• Automation: Partner with financial systems and legal teams to optimize procurement and contracting process using AI and bots
• Tail Spend Sourcing: Responsible for Tail spend approvals (<$100K deals for Corporate and Technology deals)
• Training: Provide procurement best practices and systems training to vendors and requesters within the company and drive stakeholder adoption
• Reporting & Compliance: Drive reporting of after-the-fact metrics and ensure compliance with procurement guidelines
• Policy: Develop procurement policies, aligning processes with regulatory requirements and help drive compliance

Benefits

Our total compensation package also includes the opportunity to receive benefits, restricted stock units, and may include incentive compensation