Senior Director, Procurement

🕒 June 17

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GitLab

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2014

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 Secondary Market on 2020-11

Consulting • Marketing • Artificial Intelligence

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps platform, offering tools for automated software delivery, security, and compliance throughout the software development lifecycle. It provides solutions across areas such as AI-assisted development, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), source code management, and vulnerability management. GitLab aims to simplify and accelerate software delivery by uniting development, security, and operations on a unified platform. It is particularly recognized for its AI code assistants and has been named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant™ for DevOps Platforms, making it a preferred choice for many enterprises.

📋 Description

• Lead hyperscaler and strategic vendor relationships with a 360-degree view across commercial terms, GTM incentives, product co-development opportunities, and partner program value. • Have an ownership mindset - drive the function forward with speed whilst not sacrificing quality to deliver impact for internal stakeholders. • Create, communicate, and execute a procurement strategy that supports GitLab's business objectives and improves operational efficiency, risk management, and scalable decision-making. • Own procurement policies, practices, and systems that help the business scale while managing risk and improving efficiency. Challenge the status quo and be a change agent. • Develop procurement processes, systems, and purchase controls to support compliance, increase policy adoption, and improve operational efficiency across teams. • Partner with internal stakeholders, external auditors, and advisors to improve procurement, negotiation, audit, and accounting processes. • Build strong cross-functional relationships to understand business needs, improve the team member experience, and ensure procurement programs deliver value. • Lead vendor negotiation strategy and support negotiations to achieve stronger pricing, favorable terms, and measurable business value. • Build an AI-first procurement function — actively identifying where automation, AI tooling, and modern workflows can replace manual work, reduce cycle times, and free the team to focus on higher-value decisions. • Define team KPIs, identify root causes behind performance gaps, and lead improvement plans that increase procurement efficiency and team performance. • Lead and develop the procurement team to improve accountability, strengthen performance, and support professional growth in alignment with GitLab's values.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in procurement within a technology company, including experience leading procurement teams. • A strong track record of building procurement strategies, operating models, and controls that support growth and consistency. • Good judgment grounded in industry knowledge, practical experience, and an awareness of business tradeoffs. • The ability to assess broad stakeholder needs and adapt to current and emerging policies, practices, trends, and business requirements. • Strong operational skills with experience improving procure-to-pay processes for speed, consistency, and quality. • Experience developing vendor negotiation strategies and managing supplier relationships with a focus on business value. • An outcomes-focused leadership style with experience setting goals, improving team performance, and helping others grow. • The ability to create solutions that meet current business needs while building a foundation for future scale in an asynchronous, cross-functional environment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being • Flexible Paid Time Off • Team Member Resource Groups • Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan • Growth and Development Fund • Parental Leave