Senior Manager, Procurement

JAGGAER provides an intelligent Source-to-Pay and Supplier Collaboration Platform that empowers organizations to manage and automate complex processes while enabling a highly resilient, responsible, and integrated supplier base. With 30 years of expertise, we specialize in solving complex procurement and supply chain challenges across various industries.

Our 1,300+ global employees are obsessed with ensuring customers get full value from our products - ultimately enhancing and transforming their businesses.

For more information, visit www.jaggaer.com

JAGGAER is seeking a Senior Manager, Procurement to lead and elevate our global procurement function. This role reports to the VP, Finance, and combines hands-on execution with strategic direction - owning end-to-end procurement for a fast-growing SaaS company while leading a small, high-performing team.  The procurement function provides governance, vendor negotiations, policy oversight, and process excellence. The incumbent will connect teams across the organization - reducing friction, driving accountability, and building a scalable, high-performing procurement operation

Strategic Leadership and Planning

• Define and execute JAGGAER’s procurement strategy and roadmap, aligned with company objectives and positioned for scalable growth.
• Advise senior leadership on procurement policy, vendor strategy, risk, and cost optimization.
• Represent procurement in cross-functional forums, including Finance, Legal, IT, and business unit leadership.
• Build a procurement M&A integration playbook and lead procurement workstreams - vendor assessment, contract rationalization, and policy harmonization - to capture synergies following acquisitions.

Cost Savings and Value Delivery

• Deliver measurable, recurring cost savings through strategic sourcing, vendor consolidation, and demand management, supported by spend analytics that track savings against targets.
• Lead annual vendor renewals across key categories - software, professional services, and operational vendors.
• Optimize supplier payment terms to improve working capital and cash flow outcomes.

Process Improvement and Operational Excellence

• Diagnose and resolve procurement friction, prioritizing vendor onboarding and purchase requisition (PR) approval workflows.
• Maintain the Delegation of Authority (DOA) framework to keep approvals efficient while preserving financial and risk controls.
• Finalize and publish a comprehensive procurement policy that standardizes practices and serves as the reference for all employees.
• Build a procurement knowledge base structured for AI-assisted guidance and self-service.
• Develop deep functional knowledge of JAGGAER’s procurement platform and pursue self-service configuration improvements to support process goals, working with IT as needed.

Training and User Enablement

• Design and deliver a procurement training program - covering policy, system navigation, and approval workflows - with materials that are current, accessible, and easy to maintain.
• Drive system adoption across teams by making procurement tools and processes intuitive and low-friction.

Vendor and Supplier Management

• Own strategic supplier relationships across key spend categories, conducting regular business reviews and performance assessments.
• Monitor supplier risk, compliance, and performance, applying a consistent approach to flag and address issues.
• Ensure vendor contracts are current, well-structured, and aligned with business needs and risk tolerance.

Team Leadership

• Directly lead a small team, providing clear goals, regular feedback, and growth opportunities.
• Build a team culture anchored in JAGGAER values: collaboration, transparency, continuous improvement, and results orientation.

Required

• 10+ years of progressive procurement experience (3- 4+ in leadership), with a track record of delivering measurable cost savings and process improvements.
• Strong command of procurement fundamentals - sourcing, negotiations, contract management, spend analytics, and policy design.
• Excellent English communication skills, with proven ability to influence stakeholders - from working teams to the executive level - and present data-driven business cases.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration, particularly with Finance, Legal, IT, and Operations.
• Proven ability to lead high-performing teams.
• Alignment with JAGGAER’s core values and a collaborative, growth-oriented mindset.

Preferred

• Experience in a SaaS or technology company.
• Familiarity with procurement management platforms, ideally JAGGAER or comparable solutions.
• Experience building procurement policy, training, or governance frameworks, or supporting M&A integration workstreams.
• Experience with AI-enabled procurement tools or knowledge management systems.

What We Offer

• A positive and enjoyable working environment within a young, motivated, and collaborative team. 
• Competitive salary and clear career development opportunities. 
• Short communication channels and genuine room for creativity and initiative. 
• An international, professional environment with exciting challenges and growth opportunities. 
• An open-minded and dynamic corporate culture with access to training and development. 
• Private health insurance, FitPass, summer and winter parties, employee vouchers, New Year gifts, flexible working hours, and a wide range of work-life balance benefits.

Our Values

At JAGGAER, our business is about people. Our products are built on intellectual property, but the real differentiator is the teams behind them — the way we collaborate, innovate, solve problems, and deliver for customers. TEAM gives us a common set of expectations for how we work together across products, cultures, and geographies.

Transparency – Openness Builds Trust

Candor strengthens relationships, speeds decision-making, and ensures problems are solved together—with customers, teammates, and partners.

Entrepreneurial Spirit – Own It, Drive It, Make It

A customer-focused, problem-solving mindset is at the cornerstone of both organizational and personal growth.

Accountability – Thumbs In, Not Fingers Out

We take responsibility ourselves before pointing elsewhere.

Metrics-Driven Results – Outcomes Over Activities

Data and evidence guide our decisions, help us correct course quickly, and ensure we are delivering meaningful impact.

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