Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement

Nscale; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Hybrid Working

Medical benefits

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Nscale is seeking a Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement to lead strategic sourcing and supplier negotiations across IT, software, services, and other corporate spend. You will partner with Finance and functional leaders to develop category strategies, drive cost savings, and ensure strong supplier governance.

Core focus includes indirect categories outside AI infrastructure, with collaboration across procurement teams for core GPU/AI workloads.

Qualifications

• Significant procurement experience in technology, cloud, or high-growth environments.
• Strong analytical and financial skills to drive decision-making.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders while maintaining relationships.
• Experience with procurement/P2P platforms such as SAP Ariba is advantageous.
• Comfortable operating in a rapidly scaling international organisation.

Responsibilities

• Develop category strategies aligned with business requirements and growth plans.
• Lead competitive RFP/RFQ processes, supplier selection and negotiations.
• Negotiate pricing, terms, SLAs and renewals with suppliers.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings and supplier consolidation.
• Partner with Finance to improve spend visibility and budgeting.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Negotiations

Stakeholder management

Financial analysis

International collaboration

Tools

SAP Ariba

Job description

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

At Nscale, our Legal & Compliance team plays a critical role in driving business success by partnering with stakeholders to anticipate regulatory change, operationalize compliance requirements, and deliver solutions that protect the company while enabling commercial opportunities, to scale confidently, sustainably, and with integrity.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

The Senior Manager, Indirect Procurement will support strategic sourcing and procurement activities across Nscale’s indirect spend categories, helping the business scale efficiently while maintaining strong commercial discipline, supplier governance and cost control.

The role will partner closely with Finance and functional leaders across the organisation to develop category strategies, support or lead supplier negotiations, improve procurement processes and ensure Nscale receives strong commercial value from its third‑party spend.

The remit will focus primarily on indirect categories outside of core AI Infrastructure and Data Center equipment procurement.

What You'll Be Doing

Strategic Sourcing & Procurement

• Support procurement across IT & software, professional services, marketing, HR/recruitment, travel, facilities and other corporate services.
• Co-create and execute category strategies aligned with business requirements and growth plans.
• Lead competitive RFP/RFQ processes, supplier selection and commercial negotiations.
• Negotiate pricing, commercial terms, service levels and contract renewals.
• Identify opportunities for cost savings, supplier consolidation and demand optimisation.

Business Partnering

• Partner with functional leaders to understand requirements, planned expenditure and upcoming procurement needs.
• Provide commercial challenge to ensure purchasing decisions deliver appropriate value for money.
• Work closely with Finance to improve visibility of committed and forecast spend and support budget management.
• Support stakeholders in evaluating suppliers and commercial proposals.
• Manage supplier relationships and establish appropriate performance governance.
• Monitor supplier performance, pricing, contractual commitments and service levels.
• Partner with Legal and business owners on contract negotiations, renewals and commercial risk.
• Maintain visibility of key contract dates and proactively manage renewals.

Procurement Governance & Operations

• Drive adoption of appropriate purchase requisition, PO and approval processes.
• Support procurement policies, controls and delegated authority requirements.
• Improve spend visibility, procurement reporting and supplier data.
• Support development and optimisation of procurement systems and workflows.
• Maintain appropriate procurement audit trails and support the wider financial control environment.

Key Categories

• Technology: SaaS, software licensing, corporate IT and telecoms
• Professional Services: Consulting, legal, accounting and advisory
• People: Recruitment agencies, contractors, training and benefits
• Marketing: Agencies, events, sponsorship and communications
• Travel: TMC, airlines, hotels and related services
• Corporate Services: Facilities, workplace, insurance and other indirect spend

Core GPU/AI infrastructure and Data Center construction/equipment procurement would sit outside the role’s primary remit, with collaboration across those procurement teams as required.

About You

• Significant procurement experience, ideally within a technology, cloud, infrastructure or high-growth international business.
• Strong experience across multiple indirect procurement categories.
• Demonstrated success in strategic sourcing, competitive tenders and complex commercial negotiations.
• Strong understanding of supplier economics, contracts and total cost of ownership.
• Commercially minded with strong analytical and financial skills.
• Ability to challenge senior stakeholders while maintaining strong relationships.
• Experience with procurement/P2P platforms such as SAP Ariba or equivalent advantageous.
• Comfortable operating in a rapidly scaling international organisation.

Measures of Success

• Sustainable procurement savings and cost avoidance.
• Increased spend under Procurement management.
• Improved contract and supplier visibility.
• Greater use of competitive sourcing.
• Reduced supplier fragmentation and unnecessary spend.
• Improved PO and procurement-policy compliance.
• Strong commercial support to business leaders.

Overall focus: Build a commercially focused indirect procurement capability that enables Nscale to scale efficiently, strengthens control over third‑party spend and delivers measurable value across the organization.

What We Can Offer You

• A collaborative, supportive, and innovative environment where your contributions will make a real impact.
• A competitive compensation package (base + equity).
• A clear progression plan. We want you to keep growing. That means trying new things, leading others, challenging the status quo and owning your impact. Always with our complete support.
• Flexibility: We see you as individuals first, employees second. This approach includes all the expected perks but goes beyond that to offer true flexibility. We’re proud to be a workplace that trusts our Nscalers to excel in their roles while giving you the freedom to shape your day- whether that means fitting in a school drop-off or taking a midday break for a walk with your dog.
• Hybrid Working: Join our hybrid team, and enjoy the flexibility of self‑led remote work, allowing you to create a productive and balanced work‑life setup, while staying connected with your global team.

At Nscale, we are committed to fostering an inclusive, diverse, and equitable workplace. We believe that a variety of perspectives enriches our work environment, and we encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, experiences, and abilities. We strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The range below reflects the base salary for the position. Actual compensation may vary based on job‑related factors such as skill set, experience, education, and location. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for bonus, equity, and/or commission programs. Nscale may offer a competitive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement plan participation.

Salary Range

$130,000 - $220,000 USD

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