Procurement Operations Manager

United States Digital Space LLC; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Search AI Company in Bengaluru seeks a Procurement Operations Manager to architect and manage systems, processes, and analytics for global sourcing and procurement. You will report to the Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing in North America and drive operational excellence across technical and non-technical spend categories.

The role requires coordinating with IT, Accounts Payable, and other departments to ensure alignment, automate workflows, and maintain system integrity across tools like

Responsibilities

• Act as project manager for the Sourcing team, keeping key projects on track and supporting weekly key deals reviews.
• Improve procurement and contract management policies, processes, and procedures while ensuring compliance.
• Develop and track key metrics including contract review cycle time, savings, supplier consolidation and relationship management, risk reduction and management, and improved visibility and control of expenditures.
• Strengthen reporting and analytics across procurement and contract activities to highlight trends, risks, challenges, and opportunities.
• Support implementation of systems and tools that drive productivity gains across procurement, sourcing, and contract management.
• Serve as subject matter expert for procurement tools such as Workday, Lucid, BigQuery, Tableau, Netsuite, and Omnea, ensuring system integrity.
• Support new procurement tool implementation through cross-functional collaboration and representation of sourcing interests.
• Build and maintain advanced analytics dashboards for real-time visibility into global spend, contract cycle times, and supplier performance.
• Architect and automate intake-to-pay workflows to remove manual bottlenecks and improve stakeholder experience.

Job description

the company, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The the company Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — the company’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.

What is The Role

As Procurement Operations Manager, your primary focus will be to architect and manage the systems, processes, and analytical frameworks that empower the global sourcing and procurement organization. You will be reporting to the Senior Manager, Strategic Sourcing in North America, to transform procurement operations into a data-driven engine of efficiency. You will work closely with global sourcing leads to drive value through operational excellence, automation, and high-quality organizational metrics across all technical and non-technical spend categories. This role is highly cross-functional and requires consistent liaison with IT, Accounts Payable, and other key departments across the company to ensure operational alignment.

What You Will Be DoingOperations, Systems, & Analytics

You will work with the Sourcing Leader to:

• Act as project manager for the Sourcing team, keeping key projects on track and supporting weekly key deals reviews.
• Improve procurement and contract management policies, processes, and procedures while ensuring compliance.
• Develop and track key metrics including contract review cycle time, savings, supplier consolidation and relationship management, risk reduction and management, and improved visibility and control of expenditures.
• Strengthen reporting and analytics across procurement and contract activities to highlight trends, risks, challenges, and opportunities.
• Support implementation of systems and tools that drive productivity gains across procurement, sourcing, and contract management.
• Serve as subject matter expert for procurement tools such as Workday, Lucid, BigQuery, Tableau, Netsuite, and Omnea, ensuring system integrity.
• Support new procurement tool implementation through cross-functional collaboration and representation of sourcing interests.
• Build and maintain advanced analytics dashboards for real-time visibility into global spend, contract cycle times, and supplier performance.
• Architect and automate intake-to-pay workflows to remove manual bottlenecks and improve stakeholder experience.

Operational Support & Procurement Enablement

You and your team will be: