Remote Procurement Lead | FinOps & Cloud Vendor Strategy

Jobgether; Austria; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully Remote

Equity Ownership (ESOP)

Technology Allowance

Health Benefits

Annual Off-Sites

Flexible Working Arrangements

Learning Allowance

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Procurement Lead based in Austria to own end-to-end cloud and SaaS vendor relationships, drive FinOps, and define the procurement operating model in a remote, globally distributed setup. You will establish governance, lead contract negotiations, and build dashboards to translate spending data into measurable savings, while working closely with Finance, Engineering, and Legal.

This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience in cost

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in procurement, vendor or commercial management, FinOps, or technical and financial analysis, including senior-level ownership of a function or strategic area.
• Proven experience managing strategic vendor relationships, negotiating commercial agreements, and overseeing contract renewals.
• Strong understanding of procurement governance, including competitive bidding, contract benchmarking, approval processes, and managed-procurement partnerships.
• Hands-on experience building cost dashboards and reporting solutions using SQL, business intelligence tools, or similar analytical technologies.
• Comfortable analyzing cloud infrastructure expenditure, particularly AWS and GCP costs, SaaS billing, licensing structures, and usage data.
• Strong financial and analytical capabilities, with the ability to translate complex spending information into actionable insights and measurable business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with both technical and non-technical teams.
• Strong judgment, strategic thinking, and the ability to influence decisions, build consensus, and drive alignment without relying on formal authority.
• Experience working in asynchronous, remote-first, or globally distributed organizations.
• Proven ability to build processes and functions from the ground up, take ownership, and navigate ambiguity in fast-moving environments.
• Demonstrated people-management skills, including team development, performance management, and fostering a high-trust working culture.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end relationships with key cloud and SaaS vendors, including AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, CloudQuery, ClickHouse, and other strategic partners, leading contract negotiations and renewals in collaboration with Finance and Legal.
• Establish and enforce procurement governance, including competitive bidding processes, approval thresholds, benchmarking, and coordination with managed-procurement partners.
• Lead the Procurement and FinOps function, defining its operating model, roadmap, processes, and standards while ensuring alignment with wider business objectives.
• Manage and develop direct reports by overseeing onboarding, performance management, career development, regular one-to-ones, and day-to-day team administration.
• Drive the team's delivery and accountability through roadmap management, project tracking, workflow prioritization, and stakeholder communication.
• Improve commercial visibility and unit economics by monitoring vendor expenditure, identifying licensing inefficiencies, analyzing usage patterns, and driving renewals, right-sizing, and tooling consolidation to achieve measurable savings.
• Build and maintain vendor and SaaS cost dashboards and reporting systems, working hands-on with data and partnering with internal teams to scale reporting capabilities.
• Define and maintain spending policies, governance frameworks, accountability standards, and cost-control thresholds.
• Coordinate cloud cost-efficiency initiatives, tracking optimization opportunities from initial commitment through to realized savings in partnership with Engineering teams.

Skills

Vendor management

FinOps

Cost optimization

Contract negotiations

Stakeholder management

Remote-first collaboration

Leadership

Asynchronous communication

Tools

SQL

BI tools

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Procurement Lead based in Austria to own end-to-end cloud and SaaS vendor relationships, drive FinOps, and define the procurement operating model in a remote, globally distributed setup. You will establish governance, lead contract negotiations, and build dashboards to translate spending data into measurable savings, while working closely with Finance, Engineering, and Legal.

This role requires strong leadership, strategic thinking, and hands-on experience in cost