Procurement Manager
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Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end vendor lifecycle: sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and ongoing performance reviews
- Maintain a centralized vendor register and track contract renewal dates, SLAs, and spend obligations
- Partner with Legal and Finance to review and negotiate commercial terms, including NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs
- Analyse company-wide spend data to identify consolidation and optimization opportunities, pricing anomalies, and savings potential
- Lead contract negotiation for significant purchases across software, infrastructure, services, and facilities
- Along with the Engineering team, monitor the computing spend and evaluate optimization options to improve gross margin
- Design and implement scalable procurement processes, including purchase requisition workflows and approval matrices
- Evaluate and put into place procurement tooling to automate and streamline purchasing
- Support the finance team with accruals, budget vs. actuals analysis, and vendor invoice reconciliation
- Document procurement policies and maintain an up-to-date procurement handbook
- The impact
- Nabla processes 10 billion tokens/month with LLMs - every vendor and infrastructure contract you manage directly underpins that scale
- Hundreds of thousands of clinical notes are generated and synced with EHRs each week; the tools and services you procure power that reliability
- As our first procurement hire, you'll establish the policies and systems that the entire company runs on
- Your DNA
- 5+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, ideally at a SaaS or technology company
- Proven track record of negotiating software and services contracts, with demonstrated cost savings outcomes
- Experience standing up or significantly improving a procurement function in a scaling environment
- Strong analytical skills - comfortable working in spreadsheets and interpreting spend data
- High degree of ownership, self-direction, and comfort with ambiguity
- Finance and accounting knowledge and experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in French and English; able to influence without authority across teams
- Bonus: knowledge of software licensing models, cloud infrastructure pricing, and professional services agreements
- Bonus: CPM, CPSM, or equivalent procurement certification
- Life at Nabla
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About Nabla We are a team of entrepreneurs, clinicians and engineers committed to bringing back joy to the practice of medicine. Together with a community of clinician innovators, we've harnessed the best of machine learning science to develop Nabla: the leading AI assistant that's restoring the human connection at the heart of healthcare. By streamlining clinical documentation, Nabla is helping clinicians focus on what matters most - patient care. Today, over 100,000+ clinicians across 130+ healthcare organizations trust Nabla to support how they deliver care every day. We're at the start of an ambitious journey: Ambient listening, dictation, coding, and command capabilities are all converging into a proactive assistant that intuitively streamlines clinical and financial workflows. Backed by a recent $70M Series C, we're hiring to build the next generation of clinical AI and improve the lives of clinicians and patients everywhere. This is a great time to join us! Finance At Nabla Finance at Nabla is a foundational, high-impact function built to support a company growing fast. As our first dedicated procurement hire, you'll work across finance, legal, engineering, and operations to build a world-class vendor management, procurement cycle and cost-control practice from the ground up. Your Team At Nabla, cross-functional collaboration is how we get things done. You'll report directly to the CFO and act as the primary procurement partner to every team in the company - Engineering, Product, Marketing, HR, and Operations. You'll work closely with Legal on commercial contracts and with Finance on spend analysis and budget management. You'll have a high level of ownership from day one, with the freedom to shape the function in a way that scales with us.
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