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