Founding Procurement Leader, Customer Outcomes

Aron; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Aron in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Procurement Lead to own key customer outcomes and procurement work alongside our engineering team.

You’ll partner with procurement leaders at industrial customers, run sourcing events, negotiate with suppliers, and push product improvements by turning learnings into requirements. This is a hands-on, product-driven role emphasizing ownership and value.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, category management, or procurement transformation.
• Proven track record owning meaningful spend and running competitive sourcing events.
• Experience negotiating with suppliers and defending sourcing recommendations.
• Experience in manufacturing or industrial environments is valued.
• Ability to turn data into actionable procurement work and product requirements.

Responsibilities

• Own customer implementations and ongoing success.
• Understand each customer’s spend, suppliers, categories, constraints, and priorities.
• Drive opportunities from raw data through sourcing and commercial decision.
• Build credibility with CPOs, category managers, finance leaders, and plant-level stakeholders.
• Track value rigorously from identified opportunity through realized savings.
• Identify opportunities to expand Aron’s role inside each customer.

Skills

procurement leadership

strategic sourcing

category management

procurement transformation

supplier negotiation

Job description

Aron in San Francisco is seeking a Founding Procurement Lead to own key customer outcomes and procurement work alongside our engineering team.

You’ll partner with procurement leaders at industrial customers, run sourcing events, negotiate with suppliers, and push product improvements by turning learnings into requirements. This is a hands-on, product-driven role emphasizing ownership and value.