Sr. Procurement Analyst

Company Overview

Docusign brings agreements to life. Over 1.5 million customers and more than a billion people in over 180 countries use Docusign solutions to accelerate the process of doing business and simplify people’s lives. With intelligent agreement management, Docusign unleashes business-critical data that is trapped inside of documents. Until now, these were disconnected from business systems of record, costing businesses time, money, and opportunity. Using Docusign’s Intelligent Agreement Management platform, companies can create, commit, and manage agreements with solutions created by the #1 company in e-signature and contract lifecycle management (CLM).

What you'll do

As a Sr. Procurement Analyst, your business engagement and operational excellence will be critical to Docusign’s growth and success. You will support the organization by delivering a wide array of procurement and buying activities. Your job responsibilities will require coordination with internal stakeholders and suppliers, keen decision making and prioritization skills, painstaking attention to detail, and consistent follow-up. This Procurement team member is responsible for negotiating and procuring goods and services on behalf of business areas and facilitating onboarding of new suppliers. Additionally, you may take a lead Procurement engagement role in support of one or more key business areas, orchestrating source-to-pay activities, providing spend analytics, and presenting procurement information to business leaders. You are a highly accountable self-starter and are eager to learn, determined to adapt quickly, and comfortable with ambiguity. 

 

This position is an individual contributor role reporting to the Procurement Operations Supervisor.

 

Responsibility 

• Partner with Sourcing and other key stakeholders to ensure that proposed supplier spending is proactively reviewed, sourced, negotiated, and transacted to support profitable Docusign growth

• Assist with developing and managing complex RFPs and RFQs; execute low to medium complexity sourcing events

• Negotiate contracts with suppliers to secure the best prices, terms, and services, and assist team members with supplier selection and negotiations

• Initiate and track onboarding and procurement-related request tickets, following up with necessary parties, including, but not limited to: business requestor, Legal, Procurement, Third Party Risk Management, Finance, Technology, and Accounts Payable, as appropriate, to ensure efficient movement of requests through entire end-to-end source to pay process (S2P)

• Track and manage complex purchase orders and invoices, to ensure an efficient process, timely delivery and receipt of product/service, prompt invoice appr on val and payment meeting Docusign’s terms, troubleshooting and resolving bottlenecks as needed

• Identify improvement opportunities within the purchasing process, making recommendations on better approaches and process streamlining

• Represent Procurement Operations across cross-functional projects, leading specific P2P initiatives

• Analyze and report on spend against budget and historical patterns; identify anomalies and advise leaders on opportunities for increased efficiencies and/or cost-savings 

• Collaborate with, and act as liaison to, other Docusign departments and with third party suppliers, agencies and organizations 

• Develop and document procurement operations standard operating procedures and procurement end-user training materials

• Take on Procurement engagement lead role for one or more business units, providing proactive engagement and analytics to guide strategic buying and procurement engagement

• Influence process owners for improvements to increase efficiency and improve internal and external parties’ experience in doing business with/for Docusign

Job Designation

Remote: Employee is not required to be in or near an office frequently and works from a designated remote work location for the majority of the time.

 

Positions at Docusign are assigned a job designation of either In Office, Hybrid or Remote and are specific to the role/job. Preferred job designations are not guaranteed when changing positions within Docusign. Docusign reserves the right to change a position's job designation depending on business needs and as permitted by local law.

What you bring

Basic 

• BS/BA degree or equivalent related experience

• 5+ years of procurement or related business experience

• 2+ years of experience with procurement workflow and intake tools for procurement requests, intake, and procurement process orchestration

• Expe