Head of Procurement: Build from Zero & Deliver Savings

TRACTIAN; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

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Job summary

TRACTIAN is hiring its first Head of Procurement in Austin, TX. You will own indirect spend, SaaS, software, and services initially, then scale to direct procurement, electronics, contract manufacturing, and logistics.

Drive savings, design processes, and build a world-class procurement function from zero. You will partner with stakeholders across the company to understand needs, negotiate the best terms, and implement scalable procurement tooling and governance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, building or rebuilding a function hands-on.
• Track record of standing up procurement processes that delivered measurable savings and reduced risk.
• Demonstrated negotiation wins across multiple spend categories.
• Experience managing the full contract lifecycle across a large, diverse vendor base.
• Experience selecting and implementing procurement or vendor-management tooling.
• High-growth startup or scaleup experience strongly preferred; exposure to hardware/direct supply chains a big plus.
• Excellent cross-functional communication, you partner well with Engineering, Ops, Legal, and Finance.
• Strong network of professionals who gives you a sense of where market is.

Responsibilities

• Build the procurement function from scratch, process, policy, and tooling.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand what they truly need, then negotiate the most effective and efficient solution to meet it.
• Own end-to-end sourcing across direct and indirect spend, from intake to negotiation to contract.
• Negotiate hard and well, drive meaningful savings and better terms without slowing the business.
• Stand up a vendor due-diligence and risk program fit for a company handling customer data and real supply chains.
• Build a contracting process legal, finance, and stakeholders actually want to use.
• Consolidate the vendor base; renegotiate or cut low-value relationships.
• Choose and roll out procurement tooling that scales.
• Partner with Engineering and Hardware on component sourcing and supply continuity as we scale production.

Skills

Procurement leadership

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Vendor management

Strategic sourcing

Tools

Procurement tooling

Job description

TRACTIAN is hiring its first Head of Procurement in Austin, TX. You will own indirect spend, SaaS, software, and services initially, then scale to direct procurement, electronics, contract manufacturing, and logistics.

Drive savings, design processes, and build a world-class procurement function from zero. You will partner with stakeholders across the company to understand needs, negotiate the best terms, and implement scalable procurement tooling and governance.