Leads marketing procurement sourcing and category activities, including strategy development, negotiations, contract drafting, and supplier performance, while delivering savings and supporting cross-functional collaboration.
Procurement Director
📜 Description
- Design procurement policy, approval thresholds, supplier onboarding, and competitive tendering standards.
- Develop category strategies for network and infrastructure, marketing, IT and SaaS, and professional services spend.
- Improve spend visibility, vendor classification, credit terms, savings tracking, and audit controls.
- Lead competitive sourcing and complex negotiations, delivering savings and improving working capital.
- Manage supplier agreements, renewals, performance, risk, and due diligence.
- Embed purchase requisitions, purchase orders, and three-way matching into the ERP and support clean accruals.
🛠️ Requirements
- 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or commercial / category management, including building or materially scaling a procurement function in a fast-growth company.
- Deep category expertise across indirect spend (marketing, IT/SaaS, professional services); exposure to network, telecom, or infrastructure spend like capacity, routing, wholesale in a must have.
- Track record of running competitive tenders and complex negotiations with measurable, validated savings.
- Hands-on experience designing PO/PR and purchase-to-pay processes, potentially within an ERP (SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft) environment.
- Strong command of procurement policy, delegation of authority, supplier risk, and controls.
- Influence without authority: credible with senior leaders across Networks, Marketing, and Technology, able to change buying behaviour with evidence.
- Experience in a high-growth company, including controls and audit-readiness maturity.
- Direct involvement in an ERP / P2P implementation.
- Comfort operating in a globally distributed, multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction business.
Full job description
Help Us Build The Future of Travel
At Airalo, we're making it easier for people to stay connected wherever they travel. As the world's first eSIM store, we help millions of travelers access affordable mobile data in 200+ countries and regions around the world.
Today, we're a team of 400+ people across 60+ countries, building a product used by travelers every day. We've grown quickly, but we've worked hard to keep what matters: trust, ownership, and the freedom for people to do great work without unnecessary layers or bureaucracy.
We're fully remote by design, genuinely global, and united by a shared mission to make travel simpler for everyone.
Your Next Destination
- Location: Remote, anywhere in Spain, the UK, or the UAE.
- Contract:
- Spain: Full-time, permanent contrato indefinido via Deel (our employer of record in Spain)
- UK: Full-time, permanent (local contract)
- UAE: Full-time, permanent via Deel (our employer of record in the UAE)
- Benefits: Learn more about our benefits here in this link - https://airalo-public.notion.site/Benefits-25396a97ffca81fb9bc1f0be479f1be3?pvs=74
- Languages: English is our main working language day to day, so you'll need to be comfortable communicating in it both in meetings and async.
Curious what it's actually like to work at Airalo? We've put together a guide for each of the hubs we hire from most, covering our benefits, remote culture, employment setup, and what our team values most:
- Life at Airalo · España: https://airalo-public.notion.site/life-at-airalo-espana
- Life at Airalo · United Kingdom: https://airalo-public.notion.site/life-at-airalo-united-kingdom
- Life at Airalo · United Arab Emirates: https://airalo-public.notion.site/life-at-airalo-united-arab-emirates
We are hiring the Procurement Lead to build the procurement function and policy from the ground up and drive standardization and savings across our largest spend categories: Networks, Sales & Marketing, and IT/Software.
You will design how Airalo buys, embed a disciplined purchase-to-pay process into our new ERP, and turn fragmented, function-by-function spending into a governed, competitive, and auditable process, and drive savings to every dollar we spend with third parties.
This is a senior role for a builder who will set the policy, run the high-value negotiations, and deliver hard savings that fund growth and protect EBITDA. You will report to the CFO and partner across every spending function in the company.
What you'll do:
Procurement policy & governance
Category management
Strategic sourcing & negotiation
Supplier & contract management
Purchase-to-pay process & systems
What you'll bring:
Preferred Experience
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