talkiatry - Head of Procurement

• Build and own Talkiatry’s end-to-end procurement strategy, including vendor selection, contracting support, purchasing processes, and ongoing vendor management. • Partner with Finance to drive cost transparency, budget adherence, and savings initiatives across major spend categories. • Establish procurement policies, approval frameworks, and controls that scale with company growth while maintaining agility. • Lead vendor negotiations in partnership with Legal and key stakeholders to ensure favorable commercial terms, risk mitigation, and service quality. • Develop and manage strategic supplier relationships, including performance tracking, renewal planning, and issue resolution. • Collaborate cross-functionally to forecast procurement needs and align purchasing decisions with business priorities. • Partner with Finance and Accounting to ensure procurement processes, controls, and documentation support SOX compliance, audit readiness, and strong internal controls over spend and vendor management. • Lead procurement technology strategy — assess the current-state tooling landscape and build a roadmap to a modern, integrated procure-to-pay stack (e.g., intake management, contract lifecycle management, spend analytics, and AP automation). • Build a data-driven function — establish spend analytics, category management reporting, and savings tracking that give leadership real-time visibility into vendor spend, budget adherence, and risk. • Drive automation and process efficiency — reduce manual procurement touchpoints through smart intake workflows, approval automation, and AI-assisted contract review and spend classification. • Own vendor risk management — build a framework for assessing financial, security, compliance, and concentration risk across the vendor portfolio, including HIPAA/BAA compliance given Talkiatry’s healthcare context. • Strategic & Analytical Thinking: You are able to evaluate complex spend data, assess tradeoffs, and translate insights into clear procurement strategies and recommendations. • Systems & Automation Mindset: You default to building scalable, tech-enabled processes rather than manual ones, and you’re energized by finding the right tools to reduce friction, improve compliance, and give the business better visibility into spend. • Cross-Functional Partnership: You build strong relationships across teams and can influence without authority, balancing competing priorities with professionalism and trust. • Negotiation & Commercial Acumen: You bring confidence and sophistication to vendor negotiations and understand how contract terms, pricing models, and risk provisions impact the business. • High Integrity & Judgment: You handle sensitive vendor, pricing, and contractual information with discretion and sound judgment. • Builder Mentality: You are energized by building functions from the ground up and can seamlessly move between strategy and execution. • Data Fluency: You are comfortable in spend data, can build or commission dashboards, and use analytics to drive category strategy, surface savings opportunities, and tell a compelling story to executive stakeholders. • 10+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, supply chain, or related functions; experience in high-growth or complex organizations strongly preferred. • Proven experience building or scaling procurement processes, policies, and vendor management frameworks. • Strong negotiation skills with a track record of driving measurable cost savings and improved vendor performance. • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with Finance, Legal, Operations, and senior leadership. • Experience building and leading a procurement team; proven ability to hire, develop, and retain talent as the function scales. • Experience evaluating, selecting, or implementing procurement systems or a procure-to-pay stack strongly preferred (e.g., Coupa, Zip, Ironclad, Ramp, or similar). • Familiarity with vendor compliance in a HIPAA-regulated or healthcare environment a strong plus (BAA management, vendor security assessments, and data privacy considerations). • Excellent communication skills with the ability to present clearly to executive stakeholders.