Procurement Manager

Decagon Decagon · Vertical AI · Remote · Finance

Decagon is seeking a Procurement Manager to build and optimize procurement systems, relationships, and processes for their conversational AI platform company. The role involves negotiating with vendors, partnering with internal stakeholders, using data to assess performance, and championing procurement tooling and automation, including AI-enabled workflows.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own and optimize the end-to-end procurement process, identifying bottlenecks and implementing improvements that scale alongside Decagon's rapid growth. You'll be the driving force behind smarter, faster, and more cost-effective purchasing.
  2. Negotiate with vendors to secure favorable terms and uncover cost savings that directly benefit the company's bottom line — and then track and communicate that impact clearly.
  3. Partner closely with internal stakeholders to onboard vendors smoothly and ensure suppliers are set up for success from day one, including getting paid accurately and on time.
  4. Use data to continuously assess procurement performance, surface insights, and make informed recommendations that keep our processes ahead of the curve.
  5. Champion procurement tooling and automation — building AI-enabled workflows and leveraging systems to eliminate manual work and drive efficiency.
  6. Act as a trusted partner across the organization, aligning procurement strategy with business priorities and removing barriers that teams down.

Skills

Required

  • 6+ years of experience in procurement or purchasing
  • Experience with procurement tools like Ramp, Zip, or comparable platforms
  • Strong relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers
  • Excellent communication (written and verbal)
  • Organizational skills
  • Interpersonal presence
  • Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • Ability to stay composed under pressure and maintain accuracy
  • High standard, initiative, team player

Nice to have

  • Experience building AI-enabled workflows within a procurement context
  • Restless attitude toward process improvement

What the JD emphasized

  • build the systems, relationships, and processes that keep our business moving
  • challenge inefficiencies
  • think strategically
  • drive real impact
  • seamless, scalable, and genuinely delightful to work with
  • fast-moving environments
  • turning chaos into structure
  • scale alongside Decagon's rapid growth
  • smarter, faster, and more cost-effective purchasing
  • cost savings
  • track and communicate that impact clearly
  • onboard vendors smoothly
  • set up for success from day one
  • continuously assess procurement performance
  • surface insights
  • make informed recommendations
  • keep our processes ahead of the curve
  • Champion procurement tooling and automation
  • building AI-enabled workflows
  • leveraging systems to eliminate manual work
  • drive efficiency
  • trusted partner
  • aligning procurement strategy with business priorities
  • removing barriers that slow teams down
  • ideally within a high-growth technology company where the pace is fast and the stakes are real
  • know how to get the most out of them
  • built strong relationships
  • procurement is as much about people as it is about process
  • excellent communicator
  • organizational skills
  • interpersonal presence
  • effective change agent
  • manage multiple projects simultaneously
  • without letting things slip
  • staying composed under pressure
  • maintaining accuracy
  • deadlines are tight
  • hold yourself to a high standard
  • take initiative without being asked
  • operate as a genuine team player
  • makes the people around you better
  • building AI-enabled workflows within a procurement context
  • automating approvals
  • surfacing spend insights
  • integrating tools in creative ways
  • reduce manual lift
  • restless attitude toward process improvement
  • never look at a workflow and think 'good enough.'
  • If something can be better, you're already thinking about how to make it so.