Procurement Lead

Your mission

As Procurement Lead within the Finance community, your mission is to elevate Alan’s procurement setup into a high-impact, business-enabling capability.

You will bring more structure, visibility and commercial rigor to how we manage suppliers, while keeping our approach pragmatic and adapted to a fast-moving environment. Your role will be to focus procurement effort where it creates the most value, strengthen our supplier relationships, and help teams across Alan make better purchasing decisions.

More specifically, you will:

• Strengthen and scale Alan’s procurement setup, by improving the processes, governance, and templates that support better supplier management and purchasing decisions across the company
• Own the commercial management of a defined portfolio of strategic suppliers, especially key IT equipment providers
• Lead high-impact negotiations, on the suppliers you own directly and on selected high-value topics where procurement expertise can materially improve outcomes
• Enable Alaners to make better vendor decisions, by providing coaching, support, and clear documentation on negotiation approach and purchasing best practices
• Build visibility on spend and vendor benchmarks, to help teams better understand pricing and make more informed decisions
• Proactively engage teams on critical renewals, to ensure important supplier decisions are anticipated early and managed before they become urgent
• Dive deep when needed into contracts, pricing structures, supplier economics, consumption patterns and category dynamics to unlock better outcomes

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building maturity in an evolving environment, knows how to combine influence with execution, and can distinguish between where procurement needs stronger structure and where simplicity should win.

Qualifications

Must have:

• 5+ years procurement experience, including in scale-up/fast-growth environments
• Proven track record structuring and scaling procurement in evolving setups
• Strong negotiation skills with complex commercial agreements, especially SaaS/IT contracts
• Ability to balance strategic frameworks with hands‑on execution
• Excellent stakeholder management across Finance, Legal, Workplace, IT, and business teams
• Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to go deep into spend, pricing models, contracts and usage patterns
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and French
• High autonomy and comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have:

• Experience with procurement tools/platforms
• Exposure to AI/ML provider contracts & familiarity with enterprise software licensing models
• Exposure to legal, compliance or risk considerations linked to supplier selection and management
• Experience in tech, SaaS, insurance or other operationally complex environments

How we work

• Location: You must be legally eligible to work from France.
• Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in‑person collaboration.

Important note: we hire people, not roles.

If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success.

If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements?

Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. We'll be thrilled to receive your application!