Senior Director, Procurement

The Director, Procurement is a grade 11.

• Extends the Director, Procurement responsibilities
• Creates, communicates, and executes a procurement strategy in support of GitLab’s overall objectives
• Owns policies, practices, and systems to support a fast-growth environment while managing risk and improving operational efficiency
• Develops procurement processes, systems and purchase controls to ensure compliance and develop a communication strategy to bring awareness to the policies
• Works with external auditors and advisors on audit, accounting and other matters as needed; work cross functionally with business partners to continue to challenge efficiencies in the procurement and negotiation processes
• Builds and maintains relationships with internal stakeholders to ensure customer satisfaction and that programs meet business need
• Drives vendor negotiation strategy, including Leading negotiations with vendors to ensure best-in-class pricing and terms
• Analyzes spend data and category intelligence to inform strategic vendor management
• Define team KPIs. Root cause and develop plans to improve KPIs to drive efficiency in procurement operations.
• Leads and manage procurement team by fostering a culture of continuous iteration and professional development in alignment with our CREDIT values

• At least 10 years of experience in procurement at a technology company
• At least 5 years managing a procurement team
• Drive for results. Counted on to deliver goals, constantly pushes self and others to achieve OKR’s.
• Makes good decisions based upon wisdom, experience and judgment based on industry knowledge.
• Understands broad stakeholder needs, knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, and information affecting his/her business organization.
• Strong operational skills required to drive consistency and speed in the execution of our procure to pay processes
• Ability to craft solutions that meet current business needs while providing a framework for growth and scale