Procurement & Vendor Management Leader

Socket.dev; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Smarsh is seeking a Procurement Manager to lead the procurement team, manage vendor relationships, and shape strategic sourcing initiatives. The role includes owning PO/workflow execution in Jira and NetSuite, and collaborating with InfoSec and Legal on vendor reviews.

You will drive process improvements, governance, and documentation while reporting on metrics to leadership. A strong background in IT-related procurement and cross-functional collaboration is preferred.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in procurement, sourcing, or vendor management.
• 2+ years in a people management role.
• Experience building or maturing a vendor review/risk process, ideally with InfoSec and Legal.
• Experience driving process improvement and documentation in a procurement/ops function.
• Strong ability to translate high-level strategy into team execution.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across Finance, IT, InfoSec, Legal, and vendor-facing functions.
• Experience leading or contributing to a procurement systems evaluation or migration (build vs. buy, tooling RFP).
• Background in IT/tech vendor procurement preferred.
• Experience designing risk-tiered or multi-lane vendor review frameworks preferred.
• Experience supporting compliance or audit needs tied to procurement (e.g. SOC 2) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Directly manage and develop the procurement team, including workload distribution, coaching, and performance management
• Translate the procurement strategy and direction set by leadership into concrete team priorities, processes, and daily execution
• Own current-state PO and procurement workflow execution across Jira and NetSuite
• Evaluate and help define the next direction for procurement tooling – including a potential Jira-to-NetSuite integration, a NetSuite upgrade to natively support procurement, or the adoption of third-party procurement tooling.
• Drive process documentation and continuous improvement across procurement workflows (e.g. PO fast-track procedures, vendor bill/PO best practices)
• Serve as an escalation point for day-to-day procurement issues, removing blockers for the team
• Report on team performance, procurement metrics, and process health to leadership
• Own vendor management as a distinct function from procurement process execution, with dedicated ownership of vendor relationships, risk, and lifecycle
• Build and formalize a vendor review process covering onboarding, ongoing risk assessment, and offboarding
• Build and define partnerships with InfoSec and Legal to establish multi-lane, requirements-based review paths depending on purchase type and vendor status
• Define escalation and review criteria that scale review rigor to risk rather than applying a single process to every vendor
• Support Smarsh's move toward enterprise-grade procurement process by ensuring vendor governance keeps pace with sourcing and tooling changes

Skills

Team leadership

Strategy translation

Procurement workflow (Jira/NetSuite)

Vendor management

Vendor review process

InfoSec/Legal partnership

Procurement tooling evaluation

Communication & stakeholder mgmt

Procurement systems migration

IT/tech vendor procurement

Tools

Jira

NetSuite

Job description

Smarsh is seeking a Procurement Manager to lead the procurement team, manage vendor relationships, and shape strategic sourcing initiatives. The role includes owning PO/workflow execution in Jira and NetSuite, and collaborating with InfoSec and Legal on vendor reviews.

You will drive process improvements, governance, and documentation while reporting on metrics to leadership. A strong background in IT-related procurement and cross-functional collaboration is preferred.