Procurement Manager leading strategic direct purchasing activities at ILC Dover, specializing in advanced flexible material solutions. Focusing on supplier relations and procurement strategies in pharmaceutical and medical sectors.
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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