FairSquare
Director of Procurement
San Diego, CA · Director · Full-time
Sponsorship not specified$150k-$190kDetected 6 days ago
CybersecurityNegotiationProcurementContract ManagementCollaborationOrganizational Skills
About the role
- You will report directly to the CFO and operate with significant autonomy, with the opportunity to grow a team as the function matures.
Responsibilities
- Lead Contract Negotiation • Serve as the primary negotiator for new vendor contracts and renewals across all business units and spend categories. • Partner with business owners to understand commercial requirements and translate them into favorable contract terms. • Manage contract lifecycle from initial engagement through execution, including coordination of redlines and approval sign-offs.
- Drive Cross-Functional Collaboration • Own the intake and triage process for new procurement requests, ensuring appropriate stakeholder engagement from the outset. • Coordinate with Legal/Contracts, Compliance, Information Security, and Finance throughout the review and approval process. • Act as the connective tissue between business sponsors and functional reviewers to keep deals moving without sacrificing rigor.
- Manage Vendor Ecosystem • Maintain a centralized view of the company's vendor portfolio, contract terms, renewal dates, and spend. • Proactively identify renewal risks and opportunities, including cost optimization and renegotiation targets. • Establish vendor performance expectations and support relationship management where procurement is the primary interface.
- FairSquare is looking for a Director of Procurement to build and lead the company's procurement function from the ground up.
- You will design the strategy, define the workflows, and establish the partnerships that will govern how FairSquare sources, contracts with, and manages its vendor relationships across the enterprise.
- Design and implement an enterprise-wide procurement workflow covering business intake, cross-functional review, approval routing, vendor negotiation, and contract execution.
- Create scalable processes that can support growth across FairSquare's family of lending brands.
- Lead Contract Negotiation
- Partner with business owners to understand commercial requirements and translate them into favorable contract terms.
- Manage contract lifecycle from initial engagement through execution, including coordination of redlines and approval sign-offs.
Requirements
- You have conducted a full inventory of existing vendor contracts, renewal dates, and current process gaps.
- You have mapped a proposed procurement workflow and secured alignment from key stakeholders in Legal, Compliance, InfoSec, and Finance.
- You are actively managing at least one vendor negotiation.
- Bachelor's degree required; CPM, CPSM, or JD a plus.
Nice to have
- 8+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or contract management, with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end processes.
- Proven track record negotiating complex vendor agreements across technology, services, and operational spend categories.
- Strong understanding of contract structure, risk allocation, and the interplay between commercial and legal terms.
- Ability to navigate cross-functional review processes involving legal, compliance, and information security without losing momentum.
- Comfortable operating independently in a lean environment while managing multiple concurrent priorities.
- Financial services or similarly regulated industry experience is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree required
- CPM, CPSM, or JD a plus.
Compensation
- $150k-$190k
Equal opportunity
- FairSquare is a non-bank specialty lender operating a family of small business lending brands, including National Funding, National Funding XPRS, and SmallBusinessLoans.com.
- We provide working capital solutions to small businesses across the U.S. and are backed by a sophisticated capital structure spanning warehouse credit facilities, ABS, and institutional debt.
- Our finance and operations teams move fast, hold high standards, and value people who bring both subject matter expertise and a collaborative mindset.
- FairSquare is an equal opportunity employer.
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