Procurement Manager

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🇨🇷 Costa Rica – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Smartsheet

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Smartsheet is a platform designed to manage projects, automate workflows, and build solutions at scale. It offers a wide range of features including automation, team collaboration, dashboards and reporting, and integrations, allowing businesses to streamline their operations. The platform caters to diverse use cases such as project management, IT portfolio management, marketing management, and more, serving various industries including government, finance, and healthcare. Smartsheet also emphasizes security and data protection, ensuring users' data privacy. Additionally, it offers professional services like consulting, training, and implementation support to maximize the platform's capabilities.

📋 Description

• Own the end-to-end contract lifecycle for software, SaaS, infrastructure, hardware, security, and professional services agreements supporting IT, Security, Product, and Engineering • Partner with technical leaders to understand requirements, develop sourcing strategies, and drive vendor selection • Lead RFI, RFP, and RFQ events from initiation through contract close • Negotiate commercial terms, pricing, and risk-related contract language with Legal • Develop category strategies and proactive sourcing plans • Manage a high volume of concurrent sourcing and contracting requests • Prioritize work according to business urgency and impact • Triage incoming demand and align procurement effort to high-value work • Own vendor relationships and portfolio health, including performance, renewals, and risk • Engage stakeholders from engineers to senior executives • Partner with Legal and Finance on governance, policy, and process maturity • Contribute to procurement transformation, intake/orchestration technology, and AI-enabled workflows • Serve as a senior knowledge resource and share category and commercial expertise

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of procurement manager experience, with a proven track record leading mid-to-large sourcing events and owning category management • Direct experience sourcing technical categories—IT, Security, Product, or Engineering spend—including software licensing models (SaaS, consumption-based, enterprise), cloud infrastructure agreements, API and data services, or developer and security tooling • Strong commercial acumen: ability to evaluate vendor capabilities, negotiate price and terms, and balance cost against quality and risk • Proven ability to manage high-volume workloads without losing rigor or responsiveness • Ability to engage credibly with engineers, product and security leaders, legal counsel, and senior executives, translating technical requirements into sourcing strategy • Project management discipline: track RFx timelines, manage multiple stakeholder inputs, and drive to close • Skilled negotiator with a track record of cost savings, risk avoidance, and improved commercial outcomes • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort working in data and spreadsheets • Ability to operate autonomously with manager-level ownership of outcomes in an individual contributor capacity • Strong written and verbal communication skills in English • Proficiency with Google Workspace or equivalent • Willingness to deliver other functional duties as required • Must reside in Costa Rica • Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, procurement, or related field preferred, or equivalent experience • Nice-to-have: AI tools, procurement AI use cases, Coupa or comparable procurement platforms, intake/orchestration platforms, Smartsheet