Senior Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Manager

About GeoComply
We’re GeoComply! We are at the forefront of geolocation, cybersecurity, and anti-fraud innovation, developing and delivering cutting-edge technologies to help ensure regulatory compliance, combat bad online actors, alleviate user friction, and protect businesses from fraud.
Achieving significant business and revenue growth over the past three years and dubbed a tech “Unicorn,” GeoComply has been trusted by leading global brands and regulators for over ten years. Our compliance-grade geolocation technology solutions are installed on over 400 million devices and analyze over 12 billion transactions a year.
At the heart of it all is the people, united by a deep commitment to problem-solving and revolutionizing how people and businesses use the internet to instill confidence in every online interaction. With teams across five countries, three continents, and a global customer base, we have no plans to slow down.
The Role
GeoComply is looking for a Senior Strategic Sourcing and Procurement Manager, to support G’ians across all business functions in selecting, developing, and managing business relationships with critical technology and service suppliers globally. This role will be responsible for creating and building GeoComply’s Strategic Sourcing program, including developing and executing strategy, designing processes and creating structure, and acting as the program manager for ad hoc projects. The ideal candidate will have a successful track record negotiating master agreements and statements of work, improving commercial terms, tracking supplier performance, and managing key contract milestones such as renewal and termination dates. To be successful in this role, the candidate will need to be comfortable working in new and ambiguous environments while solving complex problems with a broad range of cross-functional stakeholders. This is an exciting opportunity for someone to join the rapidly growing team at GeoComply! 

Key Responsibilities

• Establish a Strategic Sourcing program at GeoComply, including supporting teams in vendor selection, contract negotiation, pricing and terms, contract milestone management, and ESG strategy.
• Negotiate with vendors on behalf of the business teams, including on pricing and terms to maximize cost savings.
• Design a vendor management program and provide overall strategy and management of our network of third-party vendors and their associated service contracts, including oversight of supplier performance.
• Provide project management of sourcing and procurement activities from start to end, including giving regular status updates to stakeholders and leadership, and managing projects against plans and objectives to meet commitments and goals.
• Lead the design and implementation of procurement system workflows, partnering across regional Financial Operations teams, Legal, IT, InfoSec, and other key Procurement stakeholders.
• Effective relationship management serving as point of contact for third parties and as the escalation point for vendor issues.
• Develop processes to gather functional and nonfunctional requirements upfront, and assess if vendors / purchases meet stated needs.
• Design, lead, and collaborate on Request for Proposal processes.
• Ability to act as project manager for ad hoc Financial Operations team initiatives to improve GeoComply’s overall operational efficiency.
• Effectively lead cross-functional meetings with clear document writing, agenda creation, note capture, and follow-up activity coordination.

Who You Are

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, engineering, finance or related field, or equivalent experience (Supply Management designation (CPSM, CSCP, CPIM, SCMP) a plus).
• 7+ years of direct experience in procurement, supplier or commodity management, contract negotiations, category sourcing, or related experience.
• Strong negotiating and project management skills.
• Problem-solving and strategic thinking skills to make sound business decisions impacting savings, efficiencies, and internal operations.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and lead complex stakeholder groups.
• Sound analytical and organizational skills.
• Experience with Procurement and/or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems.
• Demonstrate exemplary work ethic, verbal / written communication, and proactive decision-making.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment to support a rapidly growing technology company with lots of moving parts.

Why GeoComply?
Joining the GeoComply team means you’ll be part of an award-winning company to work, learn and grow. We are fast-paced, high-impact, and have a can-do team culture.
To be successful in our organization, you need an eager attitude, professionalism, and the confidence to willingly work to prove yourself and your ideas,