Procurement Specialist
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Procurement Specialist managing sourcing, negotiations, contracts, and vendor spend for Rithum’s global e-commerce commerce network. Driving savings, efficient workflows, and AI-enabled procurement operations.
Responsibilities:
- Own the procurement lifecycle end to end, from intake triage and sourcing through purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and invoice matching
- Keep procurement requests moving so business teams are not blocked
- Improve procurement processes in Zip and adjacent systems by removing delays and building controls for clean data
- Report on procurement pipeline, cycle time, and realized savings
- Run sourcing events from scoping through award, including vendor evaluations, RFx execution, and renewals
- Build business cases for award and renewal decisions using total cost of ownership, license and tier rightsizing, vendor consolidation, and market benchmarking
- Quantify delivered savings
- Lead commercial negotiations on assigned agreements
- Partner with Legal, Security, and Privacy to secure protective terms without slowing the business
- Use AI for contract summarization, first-pass redlines, spend and proposal analysis, market research, and stakeholder communications
- Verify AI outputs against source materials before using or sharing them
- Share effective AI approaches with teammates
- Enable the business through training, playbooks, and guidance on engaging procurement
- Tailor procurement requirements, cost analysis, and trade-offs for engineers, vendors, and finance leaders
- Ramp on Zip, the intake process, and active vendor portfolio during the first 90 days
- Begin running sourcing events and renewals during the first 90 days
- Own a defined spend category by six months
- Deliver measurable savings and cycle-time improvements
Requirements:
- 2 or more years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or contract operations, ideally supporting SaaS and software spend
- Hands-on experience with an intake-to-procure or procurement workflow platform such as Zip, Coupa, Ariba, or similar
- Experience reviewing and redlining commercial agreements and working alongside Legal to close open terms
- Experience running sourcing events or renewals through to an award or signature decision
- Experience presenting sourcing recommendations, cost analysis, and commercial trade-offs to finance, technical, and vendor audiences
- Experience managing a concurrent pipeline of procurement requests at varying stages, with documented tracking in a procurement or workflow system
- Experience using AI tools such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, or Claude for research, communication, analysis, documentation, automation, workflow optimization, and decision-making
- Demonstrated practice of verifying AI output against the source document or system of record before it informs a decision or is shared
- Preferred: 3 or more years of procurement experience, including running sourcing events end to end
- Preferred: Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, finance, or a related field
- Preferred: CPSM, CIPS, or similar certification
- Preferred: Experience with SaaS licensing models, usage-based pricing, and renewal timing leverage
- Preferred: Familiarity with vendor risk, security, and privacy review processes
- Preferred: Experience building or automating procurement workflows, including with AI
- Preferred: Proficiency with Notion, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365
- Preferred: Prior experience in a remote-first, fast-moving technology company
- Up to 10% travel required
Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus of 10% of annual base salary
- Medical, dental and vision benefits with company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1
- 6% 401(k) match
- 20 days of Paid Time Off
- 9 Company-Paid holidays
- 2 paid floating holidays
- 7 paid sick days
- 2 Wellness days
- 1 Paid Volunteer Day
- PTO increases to 22 days after 3 years and 25 days after 5 years
- 12 weeks primary caregiver leave
- 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave
- Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance
- Pet insurance
- Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans
- Life insurance at 2x salary
- Calm app access
- Employee Assistance Program
- $65/month remote work stipend for internet
- Culture and team-building activities
- Tuition assistance
- Career development opportunities
- Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year
- Remote-first working conditions
- Comprehensive benefits and wellness plans
- Industry-competitive compensation and total rewards benefits
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