Procurement Manager

What you’ll do

• Own the end-to-end vendor lifecycle: sourcing, evaluation, negotiation, contracting, and ongoing performance reviews
• Maintain a centralized vendor register and track contract renewal dates, SLAs, and spend obligations
• Partner with Legal and Finance to review and negotiate commercial terms, including NDAs, MSAs, and SOWs
• Analyse company-wide spend data to identify consolidation and optimization opportunities, pricing anomalies, and savings potential
• Lead contract negotiation for significant purchases across software, infrastructure, services, and facilities
• Along with the Engineering team, monitor the computing spend and evaluate optimization options to improve gross margin
• Design and implement scalable procurement processes, including purchase requisition workflows and approval matrices
• Evaluate and put into place procurement tooling to automate and streamline purchasing
• Support the finance team with accruals, budget vs. actuals analysis, and vendor invoice reconciliation
• Document procurement policies and maintain an up-to-date procurement handbook

The impact

• Nabla processes 10 billion tokens/month with LLMs — every vendor and infrastructure contract you manage directly underpins that scale
• Hundreds of thousands of clinical notes are generated and synced with EHRs each week; the tools and services you procure power that reliability
• As our first procurement hire, you’ll establish the policies and systems that the entire company runs on

Your DNA

• 5+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, ideally at a SaaS or technology company
• Proven track record of negotiating software and services contracts, with demonstrated cost savings outcomes
• Experience standing up or significantly improving a procurement function in a scaling environment
• Strong analytical skills — comfortable working in spreadsheets and interpreting spend data
• High degree of ownership, self-direction, and comfort with ambiguity
• Finance and accounting knowledge and experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in French and English; able to influence without authority across teams
• Bonus: knowledge of software licensing models, cloud infrastructure pricing, and professional services agreements
• Bonus: CPM, CPSM, or equivalent procurement certification

Equal Opportunity Employer

Diversity and inclusivity are fundamental values at Nabla. We embrace individuals from various backgrounds, including race, gender, educational history, sexual orientation, and beyond. As an equal opportunity employer, we actively seek out and welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds, believing that a wide range of perspectives enriches our team and enhances our ability to innovate and thrive.