Periodic Labs
Procurement & Finance Operations Manager
Menlo Park · Full-time
H1B sponsorship available$80k-$150kDetected 62 days ago
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About the role
- This role sits at the intersection of scientific operations and finance.
- This is not a traditional procurement role.
- We are looking for someone who can think deeply about operational systems, financial rigor, automation opportunities, and scalable workflows in a rapidly evolving technical environment.
Responsibilities
- Own purchasing operations across lab consumables, specialty materials, gases, chemicals, equipment, and operational supplies
- Develop inventory forecasting systems and consumption tracking processes to prevent stockouts and support rapidly scaling experimental throughput
- Build systems to analyze and track the true cost of scientific experiments across materials, compute, equipment utilization, and operational overhead
- Own purchase order generation, invoice reconciliation, and three-way matching workflows across procurement and accounting processes
- Track operational and capital expenditures against budgets and support forecasting, reporting, and cost optimization initiatives
- Design and implement scalable procurement, inventory, and operational finance systems as the organization grows
- Partner closely with scientists, engineers, lab operations, finance, and leadership teams to support evolving experimental needs
- Manage supplier and vendor relationships, including pricing negotiations, lead times, and purchasing agreements
- Experience building procurement or inventory systems from scratch
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in procurement, operational finance, lab operations, supply chain, or related operational roles
- Experience supporting technical, scientific, manufacturing, hardware, or R&D environments
- Strong understanding of budgeting, forecasting, spend tracking, and operational analytics
- Experience owning procurement workflows, purchasing operations, and vendor management
- Experience with PO, accounting, and spend management systems (e.g., Ramp, QuickBooks, NetSuite, SAP, Coupa, Quartzy, etc.)
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with demonstrated process improvement experience
- Strong cross-functional communication skills and ability to work closely with technical teams
- Identify operational bottlenecks and help build the infrastructure and processes required to scale high-throughput R&D environments
- Comfortable operating in ambiguous, fast-changing startup environments
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail
Compensation
- The annual compensation range for this role is $80-$150 an hour
Company info
- A key responsibility of this role will be developing systems and processes that enable the company to understand and optimize the true cost of experimentation across materials, compute, capital equipment, and operational overhead.
- This is not a traditional procurement role. We are looking for someone who can think deeply about operational systems, financial rigor, automation opportunities, and scalable workflows in a rapidly evolving technical environment.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Yes, we sponsor visas and will do everything we can to assist in this process with our legal support.
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