Senior Procurement Specialist

Armis, the cyber exposure management & security company, 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 see, protect and manage all critical assets - from the ground to the cloud. 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.

Armis is a privately held company headquartered in California.

Location: 100% remote in US or Canada

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. 

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. 

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.

What you will do:

• Responsible for daily procurement activities. A hands-on overachiever that understands and performs daily tactical and strategic procurement activities as necessary.
• 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.
• 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. 
• Identify cost reduction opportunities and conduct competitive bids with internal vendor service end users.
• Assist the Accounts Payable, Accounting and Finance teams in addressing invoice discrepancies.
• 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.
• Leads vendor negotiations for goods and services including software license, professional services agreements, and hardware, drafting SOWs with the relevant stakeholder teams. 
• Offer guidance and support to Armis internal stakeholders and vendors during the procurement process.
• Review and monitor purchase requisitions, ensuring the correct documentation and approvals are in place.
• Approve vendors set up requests and monitor the onboarding of new vendors.
• Provides frequent procurement reporting as needed to management.
• 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. 
• 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.
• Gives internal training and ongoing Procure2Pay system assistance to users.
• Able to effectively prioritize and execute tasks within assigned deadlines.
• Supports internal and external audits as needed, by providing requested contract information and other data.

What we expect

• 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. 
• Excellent technical knowledge of a variety of Procure2Pay systems.
• Excellent planning and vendor agreements/contract management experience.
• Microsoft Office Suite, notably Excel and PowerPoint, proficiency.
• Excellent interpersonal, negotiation and communications skills.
• A strong work ethic and a can-do attitude.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze, organize, report data and to prioritize and problem solve.
• Fluency in English is mandatory.
• Experience working with senior internal stakeholders and with Legal and Security teams in vendor selection, commercial and contract negotiation processes.
• Candidates should have demonstrable ability and experience in drafting, negotiating, and closing all types of procurement related contracts.
• Experience in driving compliance to Procurement policy.