Leads procurement and category management for Red Sea Coastal Trading Company, driving strategic sourcing and supplier relationship management across complex projects.
About the role
- Lead Procurement Business Partner managing critical spend in R&D and cloud infrastructure for Snyk. Oversee sourcing strategies, negotiate agreements, and drive commercial value in a fast-growing environment.
Responsibilities
- Lead sourcing strategies across Engineering and Product needs including, SaaS, Professional Services and cloud (AWS/GCP), owning the full supplier lifecycle from selection and contracting through performance management, renewals, and risk oversight.
- Negotiate major technology agreements and optimise commercial terms, pricing, and usage models.
- Work closely with CloudOps to shape cloud spend strategy, identify optimisation opportunities, improve forecasting, and develop commercial frameworks that scale.
- Drive measurable efficiencies across our cloud environments.
- Act as a strategic advisor to Engineering and Product — translating business needs into sourcing strategies that balance cost, performance, agility, and compliance.
- Influence senior stakeholders with clear commercial recommendations .
- Use spend analytics and supplier insights to uncover cost-saving, consolidation, and rationalisation opportunities across cloud and software.
- Support budget planning and deliver measurable commercial value through improved terms, reduced risk, and stronger supplier performance.
- Enhance procurement processes, tools, and frameworks to support a scalable, disciplined sourcing model.
- Ensure compliance with procurement policy, security standards, data protection requirements, and contract governance.
- Lead sourcing initiatives, cloud optimisation projects, contract negotiations, and supplier transformation workstreams.
- Partner with Legal, Finance, CloudOps, and Security to ensure smooth execution and alignment with business objectives.
- Track and report on procurement KPIs—including savings, supplier performance, cloud efficiency metrics, and lifecycle milestones—and provide leadership with actionable insights and recommendations
Requirements
- 8+ years of strategic sourcing experience, with 5+ years specialising in SaaS, and Cloud Infrastructure, including ownership of $XM+ negotiations and proven cost-saving outcomes.
- Experience in a high-growth tech or startup environment, with a track record of building processes from the ground up, thriving in ambiguity, and successfully wearing multiple hats.
- Strong commercial and analytical capability, with hands-on experience in deal structuring, TCO analysis, and negotiating complex MSAs, DPAs, SLAs, and software/cloud licensing agreements.
- FinOps Practitioner certification and/or cloud platform certifications (AWS, GCP, Azure) highly preferred.
- Deep technical and commercial understanding of AWS, GCP, and Azure, including cost drivers, pricing models, RIs/Savings Plans, storage/network economics, and architectural trade-offs.
- Ability to analyse cloud usage and billing data, collaborate with CloudOps on optimisation strategies, and translate technical consumption patterns into actionable commercial recommendations.
- Advanced proficiency in spend analytics, TCO modelling, benchmarking, scenario modelling, and identifying optimisation opportunities across cloud and software portfolios.
- Strong grasp of SaaS unit economics, the supplier landscape, CSP pricing models, and enterprise licensing structures.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence without authority, build trusted partnerships with Engineering, Product, Security, Finance, IT, and Legal, and balance commercial discipline with business agility.
- Demonstrated ability to drive a culture of disciplined sourcing, data-driven decision-making, Supplier accountability, risk mitigation, and continuous improvement.
- A customer-obsessed, service-oriented mindset, focused on enabling high-velocity teams while maintaining strong governance and commercial rigour.
Benefits
- Flexible working hours, work-from home allowances, in-office perks, and time off for learning and self development
- Generous vacation and wellness time off, country-specific holidays, and 100% paid parental leave for all caregivers
- Health benefits, employee assistance plans, and annual wellness allowance
- Country-specific life insurance, disability benefits, and retirement/pension programs, plus mobile phone and education allowances
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