Senior Manager, Procurement

Rithum is the world’s most trusted commerce network, accelerating how brands, suppliers, and retailers work together to deliver seamless e-commerce experiences. We provide an unmatched platform for brands and retailers, enabling them to accelerate growth, optimize operations across channels, scale product offerings and enhance margins.

Today, more than 40,000 companies trust Rithum to grow their business across hundreds of channels, representing over $50 billion in annual GMV. Using our commerce, marketing, and delivery solutions, our customers create optimized consumer shopping journeys from beginning to end.

Overview

As the Senior Manager of Procurement, you are a critical resource in enabling our growth while ensuring we optimize our spending. In this role, you are responsible for leading an efficient procurement function through a combination of people, process, and systems to ensure we access the right tools in an effective manner to power our business. You will collaborate closely with team members across the organization and must be willing to work standard business hours Central Standard Time or Eastern Standard Time (Monday through Friday, 8am – 5pm).

Responsibilities

• Hire, build, lead and mentor a high performing team of Rithum Procurement professionals.
• Maintain Rithum's ZIP vendor purchasing management system, enabling visibility into upcoming contracts and renewals.
• Maintain policies, procedures, and objectives for the procurement of goods and services, with a focus on software.
• Support procurement for all spending categories, making the process easy and efficient for the team and compliant with customer contracts and regulatory expectations (e.g., SOC-2, Data Privacy, etc.).
• Develop and negotiate enterprise level contracts with key vendors, including AWS, Salesforce, Microsoft, etc.
• Lead the life cycle of vendor contracts with a focus on continuing service improvements and expense reduction.
• Pursue cost reduction opportunities through negotiation with vendors, consolidating spend, and the identification and elimination of redundancies in software and other spending.
• Create internal reference materials and deliver stakeholder training to encourage proper process adherence and understanding.
• Manage Rithum’s global corporate real estate and facilities portfolio, including negotiating and renewing real estate leases and co-working space arrangements.
• Develop and maintain close collaborative partnerships with other key internal Rithum teams, including Legal, People, Finance, and IT.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Travel Required

Up to 10%

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

What it’s like to work at Rithum

When you join Rithum, you can expect to work with smart risk-takers, courageous collaborators, and curious minds.

As part of the Rithum team, you are valued, supported, and included. Guided by a transparent culture and accessible, approachable leadership, we offer career opportunities aligned to your ambitions and talents. To ensure work and life balance works for you, we also offer an array of resources to support you and your families, including comprehensive benefits and wellness plans.

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Rithum is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other protected characteristic. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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Salary : $50 - $250