Procurement Lead

The role

You will own the design, build, operation, and strategic execution of the end-to-end procurement process. This includes vendor negotiations, planning renewals, benchmarking pricing, and partnering with budget owners.

What you will do

• Take full ownership of the procurement process including intake, request flow, and vendor onboardings
• Lead vendor management and own the renewal calendar
• Partner with budget owners to negotiate new and renewing contracts across SaaS, AI, infrastructure, and data products
• Benchmark pricing and structure multi-year and usage-based terms
• Create forecasts to drive accurate up-front deal structure
• Define when to involve Legal, Compliance, IT, Finance, and Executive teams
• Build spend visibility and maintain a vendor expense forecast
• Work with Finance and Accounting teams to categorize vendor spend and track savings
• Evaluate existing procurement tools and leverage AI to build a procurement stack
• Act as the main knowledge base on vendor relationships, usage, performance, and ROI

Required qualifications

• 4-7+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management
• Direct ownership in a high-growth tech or SaaS environment
• Track record leading complex commercial negotiations across SaaS and services contracts
• Experience building and optimizing procurement policies, processes, and tools, including automation
• Experience reading and interpreting commercial contracts and order forms
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience working with AI tools in a Finance or Operations function
• Familiarity with procurement and spend management platforms
• Strong analytical skills
• Expert in Excel, model-building and forecasting
• Ability to operate independently

About the company

Nooks is an applied AI lab building revenue agents that power some of the fastest growing companies in the world. Their mission is to 10x every seller by automating the busywork.