SaaS Procurement Specialist
Grammarly offers a remote-first hybrid working model. Team members can work primarily remotely. Teams will meet in person every quarter in one of Grammarly’s hubs, currently in San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Kyiv. To ensure that teams are able to overlap in their working hours and to meet face-to-face when needed, all team members need to live within three time zones of their direct team.
Grammarly team members who will be collaborating at our Kyiv hub must be based in Ukraine.
The opportunity
Grammarly empowers people to thrive and connect, whenever and wherever they communicate. Every day, 30 million people and 30,000 teams around the world use our AI-powered writing assistant. All of this begins with our team collaborating in a values-driven and learning-oriented environment.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we’re looking for a SaaS Procurement Specialist to own the cloud vendor management process at Grammarly. The ideal candidate will have the ability to proactively approach new services onboarding and renewals, identify savings opportunities and deliver them following the SLO (Service Level Objectives).
As a SaaS Procurement Specialist at Grammarly, you will have a monumental impact on the tremendous growth and success of the company as we scale, building transparent processes and relationships with internal stakeholders and suppliers.
Your impact
You will have access to a modern technology stack and gain the experience of work with top tier SaaS suppliers, such as Amazon, Sumo Logic, Zendesk, among hundreds of others.
Joining our team is a great chance to evolve with a Procurement function in a product organization. We operate globally, as we typically work closely with vendors’ US-based headquarters and have few relationships with local Ukrainian distributors or resellers.
- Within the first 30 days, you will get familiar with the existing vendor management process, establish meaningful relationships with key stakeholders across the organization, get up to speed on all systems and technologies, and start to coordinate new vendor review requests.By month three, you will follow the existing described vendor management process without external supervision and set a proactive approach to renewals.
- By month nine, you will own the SaaS/IaaS tracking system (G2Track), follow vendor review timing objectives and transparently communicate them to internal stakeholders.
- By year one and beyond, you will closely work with the Engineering function and the top-spend services’ business owners to build a category strategy for the upcoming years.
We’re looking for someone who
- Embodies our EAGER values—is ethical, adaptable, gritty, empathetic, and remarkable.
- Is thorough and goal-oriented and can work well independently in a team environment.
- Has creative thinking and looking for ways to achieve results when faced with less than clear choices.
- Demonstrated experience forging relationships with executives, stakeholders, and suppliers
- Has strong negotiation skills, with a past success of achieving meaningful improvement of terms through negotiations.
- Can further improve the procurement process, including assessing timing, usage, competitors, pricing, and risks.
- Has a minimum of 3 years of sourcing experience in technology or engineering sourcing experience
- Understand SaaS licensing model in-depthDemonstrated experience forging relationships with executives, stakeholders, and suppliers
- Has experience leading ongoing projects, with an ability to influence others without a mandate or formal policy.
Support for you, professionally and personally
- Professional growth: We hire people we trust, and we give team members autonomy to do their best work. We also support professional development with training, coaching, and regular feedback.
- A connected team: Grammarly builds a product that helps people connect, and we apply this mindset to our own team. We have a highly collaborative culture supported by our EAGER values. We also take time to celebrate our colleagues and accomplishments with global, local, and team-specific events and programs.
- Comprehensive benefits: Grammarly offers all team members competitive pay along with a benefits package that includes superior health care. We also offer support to set up a home office, ample and defined time off, gym and recreation stipends, admission discounts, and more.
- Relocation support: We can help you relocate to Kyiv and make the experience smooth and easy. Grammarly provides a relocation bonus, legal and visa support, temporary housing, moving support and travel expenses, assistance in finding schools for your kids—and all other information you might need.
We encourage you to apply
At Grammarly, we value our differences, and we encourage all—especially those whose identities are traditionally underrepresented in tech organizations—to apply. Grammarly is an equal opportunity company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, criminal prosecution, judgment in a criminal case, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Please note that Grammarly’s COVID-19 vaccination policy requires that all team members in North America be vaccinated against COVID-19 to meet in person for Grammarly business or to work from a North America hub location. It is expected that this will be a requirement for this role. Qualified candidates in North America who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons or because of a sincerely held religious belief may request a reasonable accommodation to this policy. For Ukraine, this policy requires team members to be vaccinated or produce a daily negative COVID-19 test administered at the Kyiv hub to work from the hub or attend in-person meetings.
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