Procurement Specialist

rithumliboard; United States; On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Rithum, a leading commerce network, seeks a proactive Procurement professional to own the end-to-end lifecycle from intake to PO, onboarding, and invoice matching. You will run sourcing events, evaluate vendors, and justify awards with TCO, market benchmarks, and negotiated terms.

You will also drive AI-enabled delivery, contract redlines, spend analytics, and cross-functional collaboration with Legal, Security, and Finance. Join a fast-paced team delivering scalable procurement outcomes.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of procurement, sourcing, or contract operations experience in SaaS and software spend.
• Hands-on with intake-to-procure or procurement workflow platforms like Zip, Coupa, or Ariba.
• Experience reviewing and redlining commercial agreements with Legal to close terms.
• Experience running sourcing events or renewals through award or signature.
• Ability to present sourcing recommendations and cost analyses to finance, technical, and vendor audiences.
• Experience managing a concurrent pipeline with documented tracking in a system.
• Experience using AI tools (ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude) to improve productivity and decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Own the procurement lifecycle end to end from intake to purchase orders and onboarding.
• Improve procurement workflows by removing delays, improving data quality, and reporting on savings.
• Lead sourcing events, including vendor evaluations, RFx, renewals, and award decisions.
• Build business cases for awards using total cost of ownership and market benchmarking.
• Lead commercial negotiations with Legal, Security, and Privacy to protect requirements.
• Apply AI to recurring procurement tasks and verify outputs against source documents.
• Enable stakeholders through training, playbooks, and clear guidance on procurement interactions.

Skills

Procurement experience

Negotiation

Vendor management

AI tools usage

Data analysis

Communication

Education

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

Tools

Zip

Coupa

Ariba

Job description

Overview

Rithum™ is the world's most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Responsibilities

Procurement Operations

• Own the procurement lifecycle end to end, from intake triage and sourcing through purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and invoice matching, keeping requests moving so business teams are never blocked waiting on procurement.
• Improve how procurement runs in Zip and adjacent systems by removing steps that create delay, building in the controls that keep data clean as volume grows, and reporting on pipeline, cycle time, and realized savings.

Sourcing and Negotiation

• Run sourcing events from scoping through award, including vendor evaluations, RFx execution, and renewals, and own the recommendation you bring forward.
• Build the business case behind award and renewal decisions using total cost of ownership, license and tier rightsizing, vendor consolidation, and market benchmarking, and quantify the savings you deliver.
• Lead commercial negotiations on assigned agreements and partner with Legal, Security, and Privacy to land terms that protect Rithum without slowing the business down.

AI-Enabled Delivery

• Use AI as the starting point for recurring procurement work, including contract summarization, first-pass redlines, spend and proposal analysis, market research, and stakeholder communications, and verify every output against the source before it informs a decision or leaves your hands.
• Share the AI approaches that work with your teammates, so the whole function gets faster, not just you.

Stakeholder Enablement

• Enable the rest of the business through training, playbooks, and clear guidance on when and how to engage procurement.
• Tailor how you present procurement requirements, cost analysis, and trade-offs to different audiences, from engineers and vendors to finance leaders.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• 2 or more years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or contract operations, ideally supporting SaaS and software spend
• Hands‑on experience with an intake‑to‑procure or procurement workflow platform such as Zip, Coupa, Ariba, or similar
• Experience reviewing and redlining commercial agreements and working alongside Legal to close open terms
• Experience running sourcing events or renewals through to an award or signature decision
• Experience presenting sourcing recommendations, cost analysis, and commercial trade‑offs to finance, technical, and vendor audiences
• Experience managing a concurrent pipeline of procurement requests at varying stages, with documented tracking in a procurement or workflow system
• Experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Claude) to improve productivity through research, communication, analysis, documentation, automation, workflow optimization, and decision‑making.
• Demonstrated practice of verifying AI output against the source document or system of record before it informs a decision or is shared

Preferred Qualifications

• 3 or more years of procurement experience, including running sourcing events end to end
• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, finance, or a related field preferred
• CPSM, CIPS, or a simil