The Procurement Advisor will play a strategic and operational role in managing sourcing, purchasing, contract negotiations, and supplier relationships across multiple corporate functions. With a primary focus on Information Technology, this position also supports Finance, Sales Operations, Marketing, and other indirect procurement categories. You will oversee the entire procurement lifecycle, from identifying business needs and evaluating suppliers to negotiating agreements, managing renewals, and coordinating supplier onboarding. Working closely with internal stakeholders and external partners, you will ensure purchasing decisions deliver strong commercial value while maintaining compliance and minimizing risk. This role offers the opportunity to influence procurement strategies, optimize supplier performance, and drive measurable cost efficiencies. It is ideal for an experienced procurement professional who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, and remote-first environment.
Strategic Sourcing and Procurement: Partner with internal stakeholders to define business requirements, budgets, timelines, evaluation criteria, and sourcing strategies based on business priorities, spending levels, complexity, and risk.
Competitive Sourcing Management: Lead Request for Information (RFI), Request for Quotation (RFQ), and Request for Proposal (RFP) processes. Research potential suppliers, evaluate proposals, compare commercial offers, and prepare recommendations. Document business justifications for sole-source purchasing when competitive sourcing is not feasible.
Commercial Negotiations: Negotiate pricing, discounts, payment conditions, renewal increases, service levels, and contractual terms using historical spending, market benchmarks, supplier alternatives, and commercial analysis.
IT Procurement: Manage sourcing activities across software, SaaS subscriptions, cloud services, hardware, IT infrastructure, technical support, data subscriptions, and professional technology services. Assess licensing structures, usage forecasts, cloud commitments, and implementation requirements to optimize costs and contractual arrangements.
Cross-Functional Procurement: Support purchasing activities across Finance, Sales Operations, and Marketing, including financial platforms, consulting services, CRM systems, sales enablement tools, marketing technology, digital services, research, and agency partnerships.
Contract Coordination: Coordinate supplier agreements and collaborate with Legal, Privacy, Security, Finance, technical teams, and business stakeholders to complete required reviews, negotiate commercial provisions, obtain approvals, and manage signatures.
Supplier and Contract Lifecycle Management: Oversee renewals, amendments, extensions, expansions, reductions, and contract terminations. Monitor supplier performance and value while maintaining accurate contract, pricing, and renewal documentation.
Purchase Orders and Supplier Onboarding: Review procurement requests for completeness, budget availability, approvals, and supporting documentation. Coordinate requisitions, purchase orders, and supplier onboarding activities.
Procure-to-Pay Support: Work with Finance and Accounts Payable to resolve purchase order, invoice, payment, and supplier-related issues. Track requests through completion and maintain accurate information in procurement, contract, and supplier management systems, including Oracle and ServiceNow.
Compliance and Risk Management: Ensure procurement activities comply with internal policies, approval procedures, and documentation requirements. Identify and escalate significant commercial, contractual, supplier, regulatory, and business continuity risks.
Stakeholder and Supplier Relationships: Build effective relationships with internal teams and external suppliers, providing clear visibility into sourcing activities, contract status, renewals, purchase orders, risks, and outstanding actions.
Cost Optimization and Process Improvement: Analyze procurement and financial data to identify savings opportunities, cost avoidance, supplier consolidation, and additional commercial value. Contribute to improving procurement processes, reporting, controls, automation, and standardization.