Manager - Procurement

About Responsive

About the Role

The Procurement Manager is responsible for overseeing a team of two Procurement Specialists, the entire procurement process, ensuring cost-effectiveness, and maintaining strong relationships with vendors. This role involves strategic planning, negotiation, and process improvement within the procurement department.

Essential Functions

• Develop and implement procurement strategies to optimize cost and efficiency.

• Manage vendor relationships and evaluate performance.

• Monitor and analyze market trends to identify potential cost savings.

• Ensure compliance with company policies and regulations.

• Lead and mentor the procurement team.

• Prepare and present procurement reports to senior management.

Strategic Sourcing & Vendor Selection

• Lead sourcing and negotiation for SaaS, professional services, and enterprise software solutions.

• Develop category strategies to optimize licensing models, reduce spend, and improve vendor performance.

• Conduct market research, pricing analysis, and benchmarking to ensure best-in-class solutions and cost efficiency.

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business needs and align sourcing with strategic objectives.

Legal Review & Contracting

• Partner with Security, and Compliance teams to review and negotiate commercial terms, data protection agreements, and SLAs.

• Coordinate and track contract review workflows, ensuring timely approvals and risk mitigation.

• Maintain centralized contract records and support audit readiness and policy compliance.

• Collaborate with Legal Operations on CLM (Contract Lifecycle Management) processes and tool enhancements.

Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Process Management

• Own the end-to-end P2P process from purchase request to payment.

• Ensure adherence to procurement policies, approval hierarchies, and budget controls.

• Partner with Finance and Accounting to manage purchase orders, invoice reconciliation, and accruals.

• Drive automation and system improvements to increase speed, visibility, and accuracy in procurement workflows.

Knowledge & Skills

• Strong leadership skills 

• Accomplished project lead on problem solving initiatives

• Strong negotiation and contract management skills.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficient in procurement software and tools.

• Excellent negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Familiarity with CLM and procurement tools such as Ironclad, Conga, Coupa, Zip, Ariba, or NetSuite.

• Strong analytical ability to interpret spend data, track savings, and optimize performance

Qualifications

• Minimum 4 years’ experience as a Procurement Manager or similar role, preferably in the SaaS industry 

• Strong track record in negotiating software and services agreements, including SaaS, cloud, and professional services contracts.

• Experience managing or improving procure-to-pay and vendor onboarding workflows.

• Strong project management  skills (Six Sigma, Agile Methodologies; etc.)

• Working knowledge of Salesforce ecosystem (Salesforce CPQ, CLM integrations, or Procurement tools).

• Exposure to AI-powered procurement solutions (e.g., spend analytics, automated contract review, vendor risk scoring).

• Demonstrated success implementing or enhancing P2P systems and processes.

Additional Information

Responsive uses a market-based compensation philosophy. A candidate’s starting base salary will be determined by the specific responsibilities of the role, as well as job-related skills, experience, qualifications, location, and current market trends. For this position, the base salary range is $115,000–$135,000. Our recruiting team will provide details on the applicable range based on your location during the hiring process. Please note that this range covers base salary only and does not include bonuses, equity, or benefits. 

Responsive embraces a global flexible workforce model with offices in Dallas, TX, Kansas City, MO, Coimbatore, India and Dublin, Ireland. For this role, candidates located in Dallas, TX will be given priority consideration.

In addition to a competitive compensation package, Responsive also offers the following benefits:

📈 401k with company matching

📚 Unlimited professional development and ongoing learning through LinkedIn Learning Solutions

🏝 4 weeks of paid vacation, paid sick days, dedicated paid COVID days, and paid bereavement

✈ 4 week sabbatical after 5 years of service

🍀 Mental Wellness Program (EAP) to support your well-being and self-care

🍹 Team events, such as happy hours, off-sites, and team building events

❤️ Best-in-class health benefits, company paid for employee and company contribution for family coverage

Our Values:

Delight customers

We’re lucky to partner with the world’s biggest brands and best customers. They all play an integral role in mapping our future. When it comes to listening and solving their biggest challenges, we’re Responsive.

Be agile & nimble

At Responsive, our people, products and processes are constantly evolving. Our simple formula is to be agile and nimble. We’re not afraid to try something new or pivot when we see a better solution.

Get it done

Whether it’s adding a new feature, onboarding a new customer, or crafting a solution that adds extra value — we’re all motivated to get it done. GID is one of our core tenets and impacts everything we do.

Give back time

Efficiency is central to our company spirit, because finding ways to focus on what’s most important is essential to our innovation. We also truly care about what really matters to our customers and teams.

S4

We have a simple saying, “If you see something, you say something (S4).” At Responsive, we celebrate people who are critical, thoughtful thinkers who just want to make things better. Here, your input matters.

At Responsive, our values are the foundation of who we are—and we’re equally committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects and respects the richness of our global community. We welcome individuals of all backgrounds, including different cultures, ethnicities, ages, races, national origins, genders, sexual orientations, religions, and abilities, to apply for our open roles. If you share our commitment to an inclusive workplace and believe you’d thrive on our team, we’d love to hear from you!