Nexthink
501 - 1000 employees
Founded 2011
☁️ SaaS
🏢 Enterprise
💰 Series D on 2021-02
SaaS • Enterprise
Nexthink is a Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform that empowers IT teams to see, diagnose, and fix digital workplace issues. It leverages AI-powered solutions for real-time alerting, intelligent diagnostics, and automated remediation, ensuring optimization of workplace applications, collaboration tools like Teams and Zoom, and overall employee engagement. Nexthink helps organizations enhance IT efficiency, manage digital transformation, and maintain cost-effective digital work environments with measurable impact and operational excellence. The platform supports over 15 million endpoints globally, providing unparalleled visibility and automation for proactive IT management and service desk efficiency.
Director, Global Procurement
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Nexthink
501 - 1000 employees
Founded 2011
☁️ SaaS
🏢 Enterprise
💰 Series D on 2021-02
SaaS • Enterprise
Nexthink is a Digital Employee Experience (DEX) platform that empowers IT teams to see, diagnose, and fix digital workplace issues. It leverages AI-powered solutions for real-time alerting, intelligent diagnostics, and automated remediation, ensuring optimization of workplace applications, collaboration tools like Teams and Zoom, and overall employee engagement. Nexthink helps organizations enhance IT efficiency, manage digital transformation, and maintain cost-effective digital work environments with measurable impact and operational excellence. The platform supports over 15 million endpoints globally, providing unparalleled visibility and automation for proactive IT management and service desk efficiency.
📋 Description
• Define and execute Nexthink’s global procurement strategy, operating model and multi-year roadmap • Develop strategic category management across Software/SaaS, Cloud, Technology, Professional Services, Marketing, HR, Workplace and other indirect spend • Establish category strategies, sourcing priorities and a global pipeline aligned with business objectives • Use spend, market and supplier insights to identify cost optimization, demand management, supplier consolidation and innovation opportunities • Lead or oversee major global sourcing initiatives and strategic supplier negotiations • Drive measurable savings, cost avoidance and broader commercial value • Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of Category Managers • Establish category ownership, objectives and accountability across the team • Develop common category management methodologies, tools and best practices • Build succession, talent development and future leadership capability within Procurement • Advise senior and executive stakeholders across Nexthink on commercial matters • Ensure Procurement is engaged early in strategic purchasing and investment decisions • Develop strategic supplier relationships, performance frameworks and executive business reviews • Partner with Legal, Finance, Security, Privacy and other functions on commercial agreements and third-party risk • Drive supplier performance, innovation, resilience and sustainability • Develop scalable global procurement policies, governance and processes • Evolve the Procure-to-Pay framework and procurement capabilities within NetSuite and related systems • Improve spend visibility, purchasing compliance, supplier onboarding, contract management and renewal governance • Identify automation and procurement technology opportunities • Establish procurement KPIs and executive reporting covering savings, cost avoidance, spend under management, sourcing pipeline, supplier performance, risk and compliance • Conduct regular business reviews with Finance leadership and key executives • Use data and market intelligence to identify emerging commercial risks and opportunities
🎯 Requirements
• 12+ years of progressive Procurement, Strategic Sourcing or Category Management experience, ideally within SaaS, software or technology • Significant experience leading global indirect procurement categories and complex commercial negotiations • Proven experience leading and developing Category Managers and building high-performing procurement teams • Demonstrated ability to develop procurement capabilities, operating models and category management maturity • Strong executive presence with experience influencing C-suite and senior business leaders • Deep expertise in strategic sourcing, category management, supplier management and commercial negotiation • Strong analytical and financial acumen with a track record of delivering measurable business value • Experience with ERP and procurement systems • NetSuite experience is desirable • Experience working across international and multicultural organizations • Excellent communication, leadership and stakeholder-management skills • Professional procurement qualification such as CIPS, CPSM, CPM or equivalent is an advantage • Fluent English required • Additional European languages are an advantage
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