Head of Procure-to-Pay Operations

Samsara; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 209,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Professional development stipend

Parental leave

Job summary

Samsara is seeking an experienced leader to own the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay function, spanning Procurement Operations, Accounts Payable, supplier onboarding, and payments. You will architect governance, SLAs, and audit readiness while building a high-performing, globally distributed team.

You’ll optimize requisitions, invoices, and accruals, design onboarding standards, manage payment integrity, and drive automation with cross-functional partners.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in procure-to-pay, AP, or procurement ops.
• 5+ years in people management & leadership.
• End-to-end P2P across multiple towers and dependencies.
• Experience with governance: SLAs, KPIs, internal controls, SOX.
• Experience budgeting, vendor mgmt, and remote teams.
• Executive-level QBRs and stakeholder satisfaction focus.
• Ability to train and calibrate teams to uniform standards.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end P2P performance from requisition to accrual.
• Set governance, SLAs, KPIs, approvals, audits (SOX).
• Ensure timely requisitions, POs, invoices; accuracy of accruals.
• Design supplier onboarding and master-data standards; risk focus.
• Own payment-run integrity, controls, and fraud prevention.
• Resolve escalated issues and drive root-cause analysis.
• Partner across departments to define automation roadmap.
• Report P2P performance and optimize working capital.
• Oversee supplier risk, contract and PO compliance.
• Lead change management with stakeholder communication.
• Drive CSAT/NPS and improve service experience.
• Deliver quarterly business reviews to executives.
• Hire and coach a high-performing, globally consistent team.

Skills

P2P expertise

Governance & controls

Executive stakeholder management

Budget & vendor management

Remote/跨-time-zone leadership

Process improvement

QBRs & performance reviews

Education

Bachelor's in accounting, finance, business, or supply chain

CPA / CPSM / APM (preferred)

APM / CPSM / CPA

Tools

NetSuite

Zip

Coupa

Ariba

Job description

Samsara is seeking an experienced leader to own the end-to-end Procure-to-Pay function, spanning Procurement Operations, Accounts Payable, supplier onboarding, and payments. You will architect governance, SLAs, and audit readiness while building a high-performing, globally distributed team.

You’ll optimize requisitions, invoices, and accruals, design onboarding standards, manage payment integrity, and drive automation with cross-functional partners.