# Procurement Operations Specialist

**Company**: Carta
**Location**: Sandy, UT
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

## Job Overview

As a Procurement Operations Specialist at Carta, you'll play a crucial role in transforming how private capital operates. You'll work closely with the procurement team to keep purchase requests, approvals, and contract signatures moving, and follow up on anything that stalls.

## Responsibilities

- Keep purchase requests, approvals, and contract signatures moving, and follow up on anything that stalls

- Keep contracts, purchase orders (POs), and system records in sync when scope, term, or value changes

- Find the cause of supplier issues across contracts, POs, invoices, and payments, and secure the fix

- Run straightforward purchases (software, consulting, marketing, events, hotels, office) from quote to signed agreement

- Build, test, and maintain AI-enabled workflows that cut cycle time and manual work

- Own process and system projects, including improvements to our procurement platform, Zip

- Track cycle time, rework, and time saved, and use the results to choose the next improvement

- Support procurement managers across the team

## Requirements

- At least 3 years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or vendor management (technology/software or marketing sourcing is a plus)

- Working knowledge of procure-to-pay: how agreements, approvals, POs, invoices, and payments connect

- Experience investigating a discrepancy and getting it resolved with Accounts Payable

- Hands-on experience improving a workflow with AI tools or automation, with an example of what you built and what improved

- Working knowledge of contract negotiation and sourcing, enough to handle lower-risk purchases

- Strong project management skills and the ability to keep many tasks moving at once

- A service mindset: responsive, clear communication, and good judgment with incomplete information or urgent requests

- Comfort working with data, spreadsheets, and procurement or finance systems

## Preferred Qualifications

- A bachelor's degree in Operations, Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, or Industrial Engineering

- Experience in financial services (fintech, banking, broker-dealer, etc.)

- Experience administering a procurement platform such as Zip

- Experience with no-code or low-code automation tools

- Experience training employees on procurement systems and processes

- Exposure to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity

## Skills

### Required
- procurement
- sourcing
- vendor management
- AI tools
- automation
- project management
- contract negotiation

### Nice to have
- financial services
- procurement platform
- no-code automation tools
- employee training
- M&A activity

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