# Senior Manager, Global Procurement & Sourcing

**Company**: Faire
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $156,000 to $214,500
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

This role is a unique opportunity to architect and own procurement at Faire during a pivotal period of growth. You'll define what great looks like - balancing governance with speed, policy with autonomy, and cost control with business enablement. Your work will have an immediate financial impact and lay the foundation for the future.

**Strategy & Infrastructure:**

- Develop and execute the long-term vision for Procurement at Faire, including the definition of principles, policies, and KPIs.

- Lead the design of purchasing workflows and approval flows.

- Design and maintain Procurement policies that balance controls with Faire's culture of speed and autonomy.

**Strategic Sourcing:**

- Act as Faire's primary sourcing lead across priority categories.

- Identify savings opportunities, negotiate contracts / renewals, and eliminate duplicative vendor spend.

- Support business stakeholders in vendor evaluation, RFPs, term structuring, and escalation management.

**Systems & Operations:**

- Partner with Systems, Accounting and Legal teams to improve the procurement platform implementation including PO line item logic, invoice matching, user experience, and implementation of AI tools to increase efficiency.

- Represent the procurement team's interest in the financial systems technology stack.

**Leadership:**

- Serve as a trusted thought partner to leadership on procurement strategy and spend governance.

- Hire and lead future sourcing experts to achieve outcomes aligned with the procurement team vision.

- Partner with business leaders to implement sourcing priorities in the decision making process.

**Project Management & Execution:**

- Manage multiple, simultaneous initiatives from concept through execution, ensuring timely delivery, clear communication, and high quality results.

- Be proactive in managing timelines, cross-functional coordination, and resource allocation.

**Qualifications:**

- 7-10 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, and / or finance operations roles

- Ideally with experience at both startups and scaled companies

- Experience building or scaling a procurement and/or sourcing function from the ground up

- Deep expertise in sourcing strategies, vendor negotiations, cost control, and supplier performance management

- Hands on familiarity with procure-to-pay systems like Zip, Coupa, Netsuite, Workday Financials

- Strong process design skills and passion for workflow efficiency, data integrity, and automation

- Ability to influence and work cross-functionally with Legal, Finance, Systems, and business leaders

- Experience operating in fast-paced environments where autonomy, judgement, and clarity are essential

- Player / coach mindset: eager to do the work while building the systems and team around you

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- sourcing
- finance operations
- strategic sourcing
- vendor negotiations
- cost control
- supplier performance management
- procure-to-pay systems

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