Lead the procurement process at Nooks, optimizing vendor management and contract negotiations in a fully remote role.
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Last verified on the company career page 20 hours ago
Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own the procurement process
- Lead vendor management
- Partner with budget owners for contract negotiations
- Build spend visibility and maintain vendor expense forecast
- Evaluate existing procurement tools
Must have
- 4-7+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management
- Strong track record leading complex commercial negotiations
- Experience building and optimizing procurement policies
- Experience reading and interpreting commercial contracts
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical skills and expert in Excel
Nice to have
- Experience working with AI tools in a Finance or Operations function
- Familiarity with procurement and spend management platforms
AI in the day-to-day
Experience working with AI tools in a Finance or Operations function.
Requirements
- Experience
- 4–7 years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Procurement Lead at Nooks is responsible for establishing and managing the entire procurement process, from vendor negotiations to budget collaboration. This role requires expertise in strategic sourcing and contract management, particularly within a high-growth tech or SaaS environment. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in building procurement processes and tools, along with excellent communication skills to influence stakeholders. Nooks offers a unique opportunity to shape procurement practices in a rapidly expanding AI-focused company.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze September 17, 2026. Last confirmed on Nooks's careers page September 17, 2026.
- AI appears in 2.6% of 1070 comparable lead other roles; Procurement appears in 0.5% of 1070 comparable lead other roles.
Quick facts
- Is the Procurement Lead role remote?
- Yes — Nooks lists this as a fully remote position.
- How much experience is required?
- 4–7 years of relevant experience for this Procurement Lead role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Procurement, SaaS, Strategic Sourcing, Vendor Management.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Nooks targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Procurement Lead role at Nooks.
From the original posting
Job Overview
Great opportunity to be the first full-time procurement hire, and put your stamp on the procurement process beginning to end.
Reporting into the VP Finance, you will own the design, build, operation, and strategic execution of Nooks’ end-to-end procurement process, including owning vendor negotiations, planning renewals, benchmarking pricing, and partnering with budget owners and other leaders across the org. This is a high-visibility, high-ownership role with a clear process optimization and savings mandate, with real influence over our vendor stack and company-wide spend portfolio.
Core Responsibilities
Take full ownership of the procurement process: intake and request flow, managing stakeholders and requests, setting approval thresholds, vendor onboardings, and leveraging Legal, IT, Compliance, and Finance teams to ensure appropriate flow
Lead vendor management, and own the renewal calendar. Surface renewals ahead of time, assess usage and alternatives, and look for opportunities for redundancy, bloat, savings, or optimization
Partner with budget owners to help negotiate new and renewing contracts and tools across SaaS, AI and infrastructure, and data products. Benchmark pricing, structure multi-year and usage-based terms, and create forecasts to drive accurate up-front deal structure
Make the procurement process clean, visible, and understandable to facilitate easy, streamlined reviews to relieve the process bottleneck. Define when to bring in Legal, Compliance, IT, Finance, and the Executive teams, and oversee the proper functioning of the whole flow
Build spend visibility and maintain a vendor expense forecast. Work with the Finance and Accounting teams to categorize vendor spend, track realized savings against plan, and report clearly to Finance, Company Leadership, and budget owners
Evaluate existing procurement tools, and leverage AI to build a procurement stack that serves Nooks’ needs
Be the main knowledge base on vendor relationships, usage, performance, and ROI
What You Bring to the Table
4-7+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, with direct ownership in a high-growth tech or SaaS environment
Strong track record leading complex commercial negotiations across SaaS and services contracts, examples upon request
You can build a process, not just run one. Experience building and optimizing procurement policies, processes, and tools, including automation
Experience reading and interpreting commercial contracts and order forms
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence budget owners and department leaders without direct authority
Experience working with AI tools in a Finance or Operations function
Familiarity with procurement and spend management platforms
Strong analytical skills and an expert in Excel, model-building and forecasting
As this is a Remote role, ability to operate independently
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