Benchling

Benchling

Head of Procurement

San Francisco, CA · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specified$65k-$70kDetected 9 days ago
Cloud PlatformsAgentic AIProduct StrategyNegotiationAccountingSupply ChainVendor ManagementProcurementMentoringNetSuite

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About the role

  • Our procurement function has earned real trust across the business.
  • Teams don't just invite procurement into their deals for compliance, but because it makes their deals better.
  • You'll work closely with Engineering, IT, Security, Marketing, Legal, Strategic Finance, Corporate Development, and Accounting, running a regular rhythm that gets to decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Lead vendor negotiation and renewals for our largest and most strategic agreements, including our cloud infrastructure and enterprise SaaS providers.
  • Enhance our renewal management process, building a renewal strategy with business owners and Strategic Finance, so renewal pricing never comes as a surprise.
  • Develop category strategies for our major spend areas, and use them to consolidate vendors, inform renewal strategies and stop redundant software spend, working with business partners on usage monitoring and build-versus-buy decisions.
  • Design and implement an appropriately sized third-party vendor risk program that aligns and partners with security and other stakeholders. Improve vendor risk visibility and build mitigation plans with business partners.
  • Build leverage by giving business owners what they need to negotiate on their own.
  • Leverage your experience in leading edge, best-in-class process and set the direction. Partner with stakeholder teams to evolve existing processes.
  • Own our procurement and T&E policies, set clear rules for when procurement gets involved, and assess whether our tools are still the right ones.
  • Simplify and apply AI and automation from intake through reporting, including procurement metrics teams can use on their own, department-level tool budgets with Strategic Finance, and tracking of committed and usage-based contracts with Corporate Accounting.

Requirements

  • 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or vendor management, with most of that experience at technology or SaaS companies
  • You can make a clear case for value with data-driven analysis based on usage, benchmark, and total-cost data, and influence decisions without authority.
  • Familiarity with Zip, Navan, NetSuite, or similar platforms
  • Negotiation expertise that experienced deal owners can learn from, and a track record of delivering substantial, measurable savings by leading the most complex, high-stakes negotiations in the company, including large cloud infrastructure commitments and multi-year enterprise SaaS agreements, and by driving cross-functional vendor and tool consolidation. Direct spend and supply chain experience are not a priority.
  • A reputation as a trusted business partner who balances commercial results with stakeholder needs and long-term vendor relationships
  • Ability to understand why the business needs a solution and how it fits into the broader product vision
  • Leading-practice procurement process design: demonstrated results from process redesign and simplification, leveraging AI and automation, with good judgment about where they help and where they don't
  • Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills at an executive level. You can make a clear case for value with data-driven analysis based on usage, benchmark, and total-cost data, and influence decisions without authority.
  • Experience designing third-party risk processes with Security, Legal, and Compliance partners
  • Comfort working on your own, handling both strategy and execution
  • Differentiating: procurement certification (CPSM, CIPS, or similar)
  • Nice to have: experience in life sciences or biotech
  • We offer a flexible hybrid work arrangement that prioritizes in-office collaboration. Employees are expected to be on-site 3 days per week (Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday).

Nice to have

  • experience in life sciences or biotech
  • Benchling welcomes everyone.
  • We believe diversity enriches our team so we hire people with a wide range of identities, backgrounds, and experiences.
  • We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

Skills

  • When a breakthrough is delayed, the world waits.
  • Getting a molecule from discovery to patients, or a crop from lab to field, involves thousands of slow, manual, disconnected steps.
  • AI has the potential to change this, compressing decades of R&D work into years.
  • But that only happens when clean, structured scientific data and AI are built into how science gets done.
  • Benchling is the AI platform for biotech R&D.

Compensation

  • $65k-$70k

Benefits

  • Advise on categories outside procurement today, such as benefits, large events, real estate, and our contingent workforce vendors.

Company info

  • We are rebuilding biotech for the AI era.
  • someone who understands what each team is trying to achieve, looks objectively through a broader company-wide lens, finds the best overall value for Benchling, and makes buying easier while improving how it's controlled.
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