Senior Sourcing Associate at Twelve responsible for supplier sourcing and cost strategy across packaging and promotional items. Collaborating with teams to deliver high - quality products and managing supplier performance to ensure timely delivery.
About the role
- Director of Procurement overseeing Zip's global procurement operations and strategy. Leading negotiations and collaborating with teams to maximize ROI and efficiency.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement Zip’s end-to-end procurement strategy and operations
- Lead negotiations for our global software, hardware, and services spend. You’ll partner with stakeholders in Engineering, Customer, Marketing, and Sales to ensure we’re maximizing our ROI.
- Identify operational requirements, gaps, and inefficiencies across the source-to-pay (S2P) lifecycle and develop solutions that drive efficiency, consistency, and scalability.
- Partner with Legal, Security, and Finance to ensure every vendor meets our rigorous standards for data privacy and fiscal responsibility.
- Develop deep expertise in our primary spend categories (SaaS, Cloud Infrastructure, Professional Services) to proactively manage renewals and consolidation.
- Provide guidance, roadmap, and solutions for procurement and industry best practices.
- Act as a strategic advisor to our Product and Engineering teams, providing "practitioner-first" feedback to help shape the future of the Zip roadmap.
- Design and implement a corporate travel and expense program, balancing fiscal responsibility with traveler safety and "duty of care" requirements.
- Optimize our travel booking tool to drive program adoption, ensuring integrated approval workflows and visibility into "leakage" or out-of-policy spend.
Requirements
- 10+ years of procurement operations experience; preferably in a high-growth environment tech environment.
- Deep expertise in SaaS vendor strategy, contracting, and lifecycle management.
- Success driving measurable savings, efficiency, and risk reduction while supporting business velocity.
- Demonstrated success in architecting procurement organizations from the ground up, moving from solo execution to hiring and mentoring a high-performing team.
- Strategic, data-driven, and relationship-oriented leader who can influence at all levels of the organization.
- Exceptional communication and storytelling skills with the ability to translate procurement impact into business outcomes.
- A proactive, adaptable mindset—comfortable leading through ambiguity and driving clarity across multiple teams.
Benefits
- Start-up equity
- Full health, vision & dental coverage
- Catered lunches & dinners for SF employees
- Commuter benefit
- Team building events & happy hours
- Flexible PTO
- Apple equipment plus home office budget
- 401k plan
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