Principal Procurement Manager, Strategic

Responsibilities

• Strategic Account Ownership: Accountable for Vertice's service delivery into a portfolio of our most strategic accounts, including some of our highest-value private equity relationships.
• Executive Partnership: Work directly with C-suite and senior stakeholders to build a deep understanding of their requirements and technology strategy.
• Enterprise Sourcing Strategy: Implement enterprise sourcing strategies that balance innovation with best practice, and own vendor relationships across your customers’ largest spend areas.
• AI-Powered Negotiation: Use Vertice's proprietary agentic workflows and AI-driven vendor insights to sharpen your negotiation, benchmark pricing faster, and walk into every deal with a stronger hand.
• Pod Leadership: Mentor junior members of your team, shaping outcomes and setting the standard for how the team operates.

Requirements

• Procurement Expertise: Substantial experience in indirect procurement, strategic sourcing, or procurement consulting, and ability to manage stakeholder expectations while holding everyone to the timeline.
• Technology and SaaS Category Management Experience: Preferred, but not required.
• Strategic Partner: Provide strategic insight to customers on their procurement strategies, understanding their challenges and opportunities, and being a creative thinker who challenges customers and suppliers to reach the best outcome.
• Compelling Communicator: Clear, confident, and persuasive in writing, in conversation, and in front of C-suite stakeholders.
• AI-Curious: Actively experiment with the latest AI tools in your own workflow, and want to work at a company where AI is core to how procurement gets done, not just a slide in a pitch deck.

Qualifications

Founded by serial technology entrepreneurs Roy and Eldar Tuvey, who have successfully scaled and exited two category-defining platforms and created $600M+ in enterprise value, we are backed by over $100M in Series C funding from tier 1 global investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, 83North, Lakestar. We have also been recognized as the #2 fastest-growing company on the Sunday Times' Tech 100 and the fastest-growing startup in the UK and Ireland by the FT’s Sifted (#4 in Europe).

Skills

Procurement Expertise, Strategic Partner, Compelling Communicator, AI-Curious

Benefits

Fast-Growth Impact, Real Ownership, Culture Built To Last, Share In The Upside

Pay

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Schedule

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Benefits

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