VP, Procurement & Vendor Management

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assess current state of procurement, vendor management, and third-party spend
• Define and execute a multi-year procurement strategy
• Establish category management, governance, and spend control frameworks
• Scale procurement from decentralized purchasing to structured model
• Own vendor strategy across key spend categories
• Lead major negotiations and contract renewals
• Drive measurable cost savings and value realization
• Establish vendor selection, negotiation, and performance frameworks
• Rationalize vendors and eliminate redundancy
• Design procurement processes including intake, approvals, and onboarding
• Partner with Finance Systems to evaluate tools (Zip, Coupa, Ramp, Brex, Airbase, Navan, Concur)
• Ensure systems form a cohesive procure-to-pay ecosystem
• Create company-wide spend visibility
• Track savings, vendor performance, and procurement efficiency
• Partner with FP&A on cost insights
• Establish procurement governance and controls
• Support audit and compliance requirements
• Manage vendor risk
• Build and lead procurement organization
• Define roles across sourcing, operations, and vendor management
• Drive culture of commercial rigor and accountability

Skills Required

• Experience in procurement, sourcing, or vendor management
• Track record driving cost savings and vendor strategy
• Experience building procurement functions
• Global vendor experience
• Technical & Systems Capabilities: Expertise in systems architecture and integrations, strong NetSuite capabilities, understanding of procure-to-pay, close, and expense workflows, familiarity with integration platforms
• Commercial & Operational Capabilities, Systems & Process Orientation: Strong negotiation and contract expertise, vendor consolidation experience, deep procurement and supplier ecosystem knowledge, familiarity with modern procurement and T&E tools, experience partnering on tool selection and implementation, strong understanding of system-enabled workflows, ability to translate business needs into scalable processes
• Leadership & Ways of Working: Commercially driven and outcome-focused builder mindset, pragmatic operator, strong cross-functional influencer, clear communicator

Pay

Min USD $200,000.00/Yr.

Max USD $225,000.00/Yr.