Senior Procurement Specialist

<p>Armis, <strong>the cyber exposure management &amp; security company</strong>, protects the entire attack surface and manages an organization’s cyber risk exposure in real time. In a rapidly evolving, perimeter-less world, Armis ensures that organizations continuously <strong>see</strong>, <strong>protect</strong> and <strong>manage</strong> all critical assets - from the<strong> ground to the cloud</strong>. Armis secures Fortune 100, 200 and 500 companies as well as national governments, state and local entities to help keep critical infrastructure, economies and society stay safe and secure 24/7.</p> <p>Armis is a privately held company headquartered in California.</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>UK or Ireland - 100% Remote</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>The role:</strong></p> <p>Reporting to the Snr. Director of Global Procurement, the successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and ensuring the success of the new Procurement function and operation of the Procure2Pay platform in Armis. </p> <p> </p> <p>This is an opportunity for a competent team-player, to support and engage Business stakeholders who have a need to work with the procurement function and raise Purchase Requisitions. </p> <p> </p> <p>The successful candidate will be commercially oriented with extensive experience working with Procure2Pay platforms and ERP systems.  In addition, they will be experienced at working with multiple stakeholders in a business-facing role, and have the ability to negotiate and influence on supplier cost improvements.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>What you will do:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Responsible for daily procurement activities. A hands-on overachiever that understands and performs daily tactical and strategic procurement activities as necessary.</li> <li>Be the initial procurement interface with Armis stakeholders, working to assist teams on the correct raising of requests for the purchase of goods and services.</li> <li>Responsible for negotiating midsize value vendor contracts of varying complexity across multiple categories and meeting internal client objectives, while achieving maximum overall cost efficiencies for Armis. </li> <li>Identify cost reduction opportunities and conduct competitive bids with internal vendor service end users.</li> <li>Assist the Accounts Payable, Accounting and Finance teams in addressing invoice discrepancies.</li> <li>Schedule and lead vendor meetings for the review of sourcing activities/renewals as required and consistently take independent business decisions, except in unusually complex business instances.</li> <li>Leads vendor negotiations for goods and services including software license, professional services agreements, and hardware, drafting SOWs with the relevant stakeholder teams. </li> <li>Offer guidance and support to Armis internal stakeholders and vendors during the procurement process.</li> <li>Review and monitor purchase requisitions, ensuring the correct documentation and approvals are in place.</li> <li>Approve vendors set up requests and monitor the onboarding of new vendors.</li> <li>Provides frequent procurement reporting as needed to management.</li> <li>Has a visible presence across the Business and consistently builds credibility and strong relationships as a representative of Procurement with key stakeholders, including legal, security, and functional partners. </li> <li>Ensures a robust Procurement process is in place for all contracted goods and services, identifying and meeting all regulatory and quality standards. Ensuring compliance with all Procurement policies.</li> <li>Gives internal training and ongoing Procure2Pay system assistance to users.</li> <li>Able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks within assigned deadlines.</li> <li>Supports internal and external audits as needed, by providing requested contract information and other data.</li> </ul> <p><strong>What we expect:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Minimum of 6 years’ experience as a Procurement Specialist/Senior Buyer (indirect procurement) working daily with a variety of Procure2Pay systems, ideally within an IT company across technology and service related spend areas. </li> <li>Excellent technical knowledge of a variety of Procure2Pay systems.</li> <li>Excellent planning and vendor agreements/contract management experience.</li> <li>Microsoft Office Suite, notably Excel and PowerPoint, proficiency.</li> <li>Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communications skills.</li> <li>A strong work ethic and a can-do attitude.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to analyze, organize, report data and to prioritize and problem solve.</li> <li>Fluency in English is mandatory.</li> <li>Experience working with senior internal stakeholders and with Legal and Security teams in vendor selection, commercial and contract negotiation processes.</li> <li>Candidates should have demonstrable ability and experience in drafting, negotiating, and closing all types of procurement related contracts.</li> <li>Experi