Founding Procurement Lead, Customer Outcomes

The role

You will own customer implementations and procurement work to make the AI product indispensable. You will sit between customers and engineering to turn procurement outcomes into product requirements.

What you will do

• Own customer implementations and ongoing success
• Understand customer spend, suppliers, categories, and priorities
• Identify high-value work for Aron to take on
• Drive opportunities from raw data through sourcing and commercial decision
• Build credibility with CPOs, category managers, and finance leaders
• Track value from identified opportunity through realized savings
• Perform procurement tasks including RFQs, supplier finding, and negotiations
• Normalize quotes and evaluate commercial and supply-risk tradeoffs
• Work with engineers to identify where Aron requires human intervention
• Translate recurring customer problems into product requirements

Required qualifications

• 5-10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement transformation
• Personally owned meaningful spend
• Run competitive sourcing events
• Negotiated with suppliers
• Defended a sourcing recommendation to senior leadership
• Dealt with terrible ERP data, incomplete specifications, difficult stakeholders, incumbent suppliers, and savings targets

Nice to have

• Experience in manufacturing or industrial environments

About the company

Aron is building an AI chief of staff for procurement. The company is backed by Menlo Ventures and Storm Ventures.