Procurement Manager

The role

You will run procurement for an AI-driven biotech company, covering purchasing processes, sourcing, and supplier negotiations. You will also pilot and scale AI tools across the procurement lifecycle and build spend analytics.

What you will do

• Own end-to-end procurement operations: P2P process, sourcing and technology across all goods and services
• Drive adoption of a contract-first CLM framework and reduce cycle times
• Run procurement as a service business with stakeholder experience as a core focus
• Support Accounting with PO hygiene, invoice-match resolution, accruals, vendor master data and close activities
• Pilot and scale AI for contract analysis, spend classification, supplier intelligence, negotiation prep and workflow automation
• Lead sourcing events and negotiations across core life-sciences suppliers
• Structure agreements that protect flexibility, including cancellation frameworks and engagement terms
• Build supplier relationships through performance management, risk monitoring and strategic partnerships
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions across the procurement technology stack
• Build spend analytics and own data integrity across procurement and P2P systems

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing or supply chain
• Proven negotiation results on complex service agreements (CRO, services and technology)
• Hands-on experience with modern procurement tools (Ironclad, Coupa, NetSuite, Ramp)
• Practical AI fluency applied to real workflows, with processes you have automated
• Strong analytics: spend analysis, dashboarding, supplier ecosystems and advanced metrics
• Stakeholder focus, building trust through accountability and delivery
• Concise, executive-ready communication
• Entrepreneurial: find the gap, propose the fix and ship it

Nice to have

• Biotech, pharma or high-growth tech experience

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Base salary, bonus and equity
• Open, flexible and friendly work environment
• Platform to develop long-term career
• Summary of Benefits available to all applicants

Before you apply

• Xaira Therapeutics does not accept agency resumes

About the company

Xaira Therapeutics is an AI-focused biotech startup developing generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics and foundation models for biology and disease. It is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle and London.