Senior Procurement Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary Procurement liaison for designated business areas and oversee procurement requests from initiation to completion.

• Execute low- to medium-complexity sourcing projects independently and assist with more complex sourcing initiatives.

• Create RFPs and RFQs, engage with suppliers, evaluate bids, perform assessments, and provide recommendations for awards.

• Conduct analyses on spending, pricing, utilization, market trends, benchmarking, total costs, and supplier performance.

• Oversee contract renewals and related activities with suppliers.

• Facilitate renewals, amendments, order forms, extensions, notifications, terminations, signatures, supplier onboarding, supplier records, requisitions, purchase orders, and follow-up actions.

• Maintain sourcing and contract workflows using Workday Strategic Sourcing, Ironclad, and associated systems.

• Keep contract repositories, metadata, trackers, dashboards, reporting, and workflow statuses updated.

• Identify opportunities for savings, cost avoidance, consolidation, and leakage recovery, and monitor savings in collaboration with Finance.

• Assist in supplier negotiations, contract management, supplier performance evaluations, risk assessments, escalations, and resolution efforts.

• Identify and facilitate process enhancements across procurement workflows, controls, templates, reporting, data quality, and automation.

• Collaborate with Finance, Legal, IT, Information Security, Privacy, HR, Marketing, Operations, and other stakeholders to complete procurement tasks and address issues.

• Utilize independent judgment within established guidelines and escalate more complex decisions to Procurement leadership.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Business Administration, Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

• A minimum of three years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, contract management, vendor management, or a related analytical role.

• Proven experience managing sourcing projects, conducting supplier negotiations, overseeing contract administration, and facilitating stakeholder communications.

• Strong analytical, financial, problem-solving, project management, and organizational abilities.

• Capability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines in a dynamic, matrixed environment.

• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation communication skills.

• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and procurement-related reporting tools.

• Experience supporting a centralized or evolving enterprise Procurement organization.

• Familiarity with sourcing technology, SaaS, cloud services, professional services, marketing, HR, or operational expenditures.

• Knowledge of procurement technologies such as Workday Strategic Sourcing, Ironclad, Coupa, Ariba, or similar platforms.

• Understanding of supplier risk, privacy, security, and compliance review procedures.

• Experience with spend analysis, commercial benchmarking, utilization assessments, and savings tracking.

• Familiarity with the healthcare industry or knowledge of healthcare contracting requirements.

• Background in process improvement, workflow automation, or procurement reporting.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage starting from the first day of employment.

• 401K plan with matching contributions.

• Tuition reimbursement program.

• Employee stock purchase plan.

• 12 company-paid holidays.

• Flexible time off (PTO for non-exempt employees).

• Annual performance bonus.