Director of Procurement overseeing Zip's global procurement operations and strategy. Leading negotiations and collaborating with teams to maximize ROI and efficiency.
Responsibilities
Design and implement Zip’s end-to-end procurement strategy and operations
Lead negotiations for our global software, hardware, and services spend. You’ll partner with stakeholders in Engineering, Customer, Marketing, and Sales to ensure we’re maximizing our ROI.
Identify operational requirements, gaps, and inefficiencies across the source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle and develop solutions that drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
Partner with Legal, Security, and Finance to ensure every vendor meets our rigorous standards for data privacy and fiscal responsibility.
Develop deep expertise in our primary spend categories (SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Professional Services) to proactively manage renewals and consolidation.
Provide guidance, roadmap, and solutions for procurement and industry best practices.
Act as a strategic advisor to our Product and Engineering teams, providing "practitioner-first" feedback to help shape the future of the Zip roadmap.
Design and implement a corporate travel and expense program, balancing fiscal responsibility with traveler safety and "duty of care" requirements.
Optimize our travel booking tool to drive program adoption, ensuring integrated approval workflows and visibility into "leakage" or out-of-policy spend.
Requirements
10+ years of procurement operations experience; preferably in a high-growth environment tech environment.
Deep expertise in SaaS vendor strategy, contracting, and lifecycle management.
Success driving measurable savings, efficiency, and risk reduction while supporting business velocity.
Demonstrated success in architecting procurement organizations from the ground up, moving from solo execution to hiring and mentoring a high-performing team.
Strategic, data-driven, and relationship-oriented leader who can influence at all levels of the organization.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with the ability to translate procurement impact into business outcomes.
A proactive, adaptable mindset—comfortable leading through ambiguity and driving clarity across multiple teams.
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