# Senior Manager, Procurement

**Company**: Airtable
**Location**: San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Austin, TX
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23016614

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## Description

Airtable is seeking a Senior Manager, Procurement to lead and mature its strategic sourcing and vendor negotiation operations.

The successful candidate will inherit an established procurement function with a capable team and working operation. Key responsibilities include:

- Leading complex commercial negotiations for significant software, SaaS, infrastructure, cloud, AI, and professional services contracts

- Managing and maturing the vendor portfolio, rationalizing the supplier base, and building relationships for commercial leverage

- Partnering with Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) to build and maintain a forward-looking procurement pipeline

- Serving as the primary procurement partner to Engineering, IT, Finance, and Legal

- Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on strategic and large spend deals, procurement pipeline, and key metrics

- Coaching and developing a small team of procurement and sourcing specialists

- Driving process improvements, controls, and systems to increase team capacity and reduce manual overhead

- Leveraging AI tools to accelerate contract analysis, negotiation prep, and spend pipeline reporting

The ideal candidate will have:

- 8+ years of procurement experience with demonstrated depth in software, SaaS, cloud, and infrastructure deals

- A track record of leading high-stakes commercial negotiations independently

- Experience managing or developing procurement or sourcing professionals

- The ability to operate as a finance and business partner, understanding how procurement decisions affect budgets and planning cycles

- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to distill complex situations into concise recommendations for a CFO-level audience

- Fluency with modern procurement tools and AI

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- strategic sourcing
- vendor negotiation
- commercial negotiations
- AI tools
- contract management
- spend visibility

### Nice to have
- Airtable
- Claude
- modern procurement tools

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