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Stack Overflow's Procurement team is growing! We are looking to expand the team to bring a Procurement Analyst onboard. In this role, you will partner with stakeholders from across the company globally, working together to add value for the company. The right candidate will be a strategic, solutions-oriented thinker who thrives in a fast-paced environment, has great communication skills and who has hands-on experience negotiating vendor contracts. This is an individual contributor role, with an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact as the company expands and procurement function scales to support the company's growing needs.

What You'll Do:

  • Partner with internal stakeholders to understand their business needs and provide procurement support to help meet goals in a cost-effective and timely manner
  • Develop and maintain existing and new vendor relationships
  • Negotiate vendor agreements for both new software and services, and renewals in order to maximize value for the company (Including pricing, commercials, T&Cs, etc)
  • Follow, maintain, and update procurement processes to ensure that all deals are in line with the Procurement Policy
  • Coordinate with Security, IT, Finance and Legal teams to ensure appropriate vendor due diligence

What You'll Need To Have:

  • Bachelor's Degree
  • 3+ years of procurement experience
  • Hands-on experience with deal negotiation (commercials, prices, T&Cs)
  • Hands-on experience with negotiating software license agreements (SaaS)
  • Demonstrated working knowledge in procurement best practices and vendor selection
  • Basic knowledge of IT systems and infrastructure
  • Working knowledge of Jira, Google Suite
  • Problem solving, record-keeping and critical thinking skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to multitask, set pace, prioritize, as well as work independently with tight deadlines
  • Ability to collaborate cross-functionally
  • Experience working remotely/from home as an employee of a company with personnel located throughout the US and abroad

What You'll Get In Return:

  • Competitive Base Salary
  • 20 days paid vacation
  • Generous parental leave (16 weeks at 100% pay), family care leave, and paid sick days
  • Stock options
  • Completely free health insurance (no copay, no premiums)
  • 401K match
  • Gym membership reimbursement
  • Employees will never be poked with a sharp stick
  • If your role is not located in one of our offices.... We'll reimburse you up to $2,000 to set up a great home office.

If you want to work in our office... You'll be in our headquarters in New York City, and enjoy additional benefits like free lunches, transportation reimbursement, and all the espresso you can drink.

Work Environment:

We're a remote-friendly team. Whether you work remotely or work out of our New York office (re-opening voluntarily Fall 2021), you'll be part of a remote work culture that emphasizes online communication (Slack, GitHub, Hangouts, Zoom, Stack Overflow for Teams).

  • Employment is conditioned upon successfully completing a background check and having the appropriate legal right to work.
  • Diverse teams build better products.

Legally, we need you to know this:

Stack Exchange, Inc. does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or any other protected class. We support workplace diversity.

But we want to add this:

We strongly believe that diversity of experience contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can and we actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of it.

Summary
Company name: Stack Overflow
Remote job title: Procurement Analyst
Job tags: advertising, business services, labour, media, recruitment

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