Senior Procurement Specialist

GrowthSpace supports Global customers like Intel, Applied Materials, MSD, Siemens, and Johnson & Johnson, and unicorns like GainSight, Check Point, and Taboola, as well as many other firms in over 40 countries & languages. GrowthSpace has created an innovative platform in the employee development space that's personalized, data-driven, and connected to business KPIs — with a variety of one-on-one and group development options tailored to each individual using data.

Position Summary:

GrowthSpace is looking for a Senior Procurement Specialist to join our fast-growing company.

In this role, you will be a key player in our procurement team, responsible for managing the day-to-day and long-term relationships with the company vendors and partners, Building, negotiating, and managing strategic agreements with high-potential freelancers, and much more.

We are seeking an individual with a proven track record of success in managing end-to-end procurement processes, negotiating contracts, and fostering strong vendor relationships.

• We are looking for a proactive, nologically fluent experienced developer with a can-do approach and strong interpersonal skills who thrives in a fast-paced work environment and is ambitious, persistent, and highly motivated to ship things to production and impact on engineering group growth.
• Managing the day-to-day and long-term relationships with the company vendors and partners.
• Devise and use fruitful sourcing strategies to discover and create a profitable supplier and initiate business and organization partnerships.
• Foresee alterations in the comparative negotiating ability of suppliers.
• Negotiate with external vendors to secure advantageous terms and with current and potential technology vendors and partners.
• Build, negotiate, and manage strategic agreements with high-potential freelancers.
• Finalize purchase details of orders and deliveries.
• Examine and test existing contracts.
• Track and report key functional metrics to reduce expenses and improve effectiveness.
• Collaborate with key persons to ensure clarity of the specifications and expectations of the company.
• Perform risk management for supply contracts and agreements.
• Control spending and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs.
• Source for solutions and analyze new market trends
• Work together with multiple functions in the organization (R&D, FP&A, legal, operations, security, IT, operations, HR, etc.) to understand the needs and the best way to achieve results.
• Renewals management- monitoring and executing renewals contracts according to the stakeholder's needs.
• Support our PR system and our workflow implementation
• Data analysis - of our spend coverage and agreements consumption
  
  

• 4+ years experience as a procurement specialist/senior buyer in enterprise / multinational companies with a full P2P process.
• Experience working with Freelancers - must
• Experience in the tech industry, preferably from a SaaS company.
• Outstanding negotiation and communication skills.
• Knowledge of sourcing and procurement techniques as well as a dexterity in “reading” the market.
• Track record of cost reduction, Scoring, and consolidation projects
• Experience with vendor management, sourcing processes, and tools. Ability to draft and manage the RFP process, perform spend analytics, and develop recommendations.
• English communications skills at Mother-tongue level.
• Availability to work US hours.
• Service-oriented approach, Independent.
• Aptitude in decision-making and working with numbers.
• Experience in collecting and analysing data.
• BSc degree in supply chain management, logistics or business administration
• Familiarity with the HR Tech or L&D industry – an advantage.