Procurement Operations Manager

What you'll do

Own and elevate day-to-day procurement operations

• Run vendor onboarding, intake triage, PO creation, and urgent approval coordination across business, finance, legal, security, and IT with minimal oversight
• Take active responsibility across the procure-to-pay cycle, partnering with Accounts Payable on vendor master data quality, PO accuracy, and dispute resolution
• Design and scale fast-buy processes (P-card programs, catalogs, self-service paths) that take repetitive purchases out of the queue

Lead contract redlining

• Own redline of SOWs and Order Forms for commercial terms, partnering with Legal on non-commercial terms

Re-architect procurement with AI

• Identify where AI agents, automation, and Airtable-native tooling can replace manual work, then build, deploy, iterate, and set the standard for how the team adopts agentic systems
• Design multi-step workflows that delegate routine tasks to AI rather than just speeding up the human version of them
• Verify AI output with rigor: anticipate failure modes, build in checks, and define how the team distinguishes trustworthy output from slop
• Build reusable tools, templates, and playbooks that raise the quality bar across the company, not just your own output

Flex into broader operations work

• Take on cross-functional Finance Operations projects as priorities shift, scoped to grow beyond procurement for someone with the instincts to wear whatever hat the business needs

Who you are

• 6+ years across procurement, sourcing, finance operations, business operations, program management, or an equivalent function. Procurement experience is a plus; a strong cross-functional operator who picks up complex domains quickly is equally compelling
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity, biased toward taking the first swing over over-planning, with genuine curiosity for unfamiliar problems
• Meets stakeholders where they are and earns structure by delivering, scanning for friction and bridging gaps no one else owns
• Strong written and verbal communicator who can adjust register for the audience, whether that is the CFO, vendor counsel, or a teammate in Slack
• Directs AI tools rather than just using them, producing higher-quality work because of how AI is used, and can point to specific examples of work that couldn't have been done a year ago
• Has built reusable tools, templates, or workflows that others adopted, raising someone else's quality bar through what was built
• Experience with procurement, financial, and legal systems (Zip, Coupa, Workday, Ironclad CLM) or a clear track record of picking up new tooling quickly
• Excited that this role can grow into broader Finance or Business Operations work
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience