Procurement Lead - FinOps & Vendor Management (Remote - Worldwide)

Candidates can apply from any country. A fast-growing developer infrastructure software company with a globally distributed team of about 400 people is hiring a Procurement Lead to own its commercial and vendor-management function. The role covers the company's major cloud and SaaS vendor relationships, from negotiations and renewals through to governance and spend reporting. It is positioned as a FinOps-first role, so the successful hire will combine financial analysis, technical understanding of cloud billing, and procurement discipline. The company is looking for someone to build this function from the ground up.

What you'll do

• Own the primary cloud and SaaS vendor relationships end-to-end, leading renewals and negotiations with Finance and Legal.
• Run procurement governance, including a competitive-bid process for incoming requests and oversight of larger procurements handled through a managed-procurement partner.
• Build vendor and SaaS cost dashboards and reporting by hand, partner with data teams to scale them, and own the spend policies, thresholds and accountability framework.
• Track spend visibility and unit economics, surface licensing and usage inefficiencies early, and drive right-sizing and tool consolidation to realized savings.
• Coordinate the cloud efficiency program from commitment through to realized savings, working alongside Engineering without taking over their delivery.
• Manage the team's roadmap, milestones and weekly stakeholder updates, and lead direct reports through one-to-ones, performance and career development.

What you need

• 8+ years in vendor or commercial management, procurement, FinOps, or technical/financial analysis, at a senior level where you owned the function or its outcomes.
• Track record of running contract negotiations and renewals and using them to improve unit economics.
• Experience with competitive-bid processes, benchmarking, approval thresholds, or managed-procurement partners.
• Hands-on ability to build cost reporting with SQL and BI tools, and comfort with cloud and SaaS billing data and licensing/usage analysis.
• Clear written and verbal communication with both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working in async, globally distributed teams.

Open to applicants anywhere in the world.

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