Cresta - Senior Procurement Operations Manager
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Requirements
• Hands-on experience administering procurement or intake workflows (e.g., Zip, Vendr, Coupa, Ariba, Ivalua, ServiceNow, Jira, or similar tools) • Strong contract operations experience (workflow coordination, repository hygiene, renewals and notice tracking) • Comfortable negotiating smaller agreements and driving stakeholders to decisions • Strong analytical skills (Excel/Google Sheets; BI tools a plus) • Excellent written communication and ability to operate asynchronously across time zones • We have noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where scammers attempt to access candidates' personal and financial information through fake interviews and offers. All Cresta recruiting email communications will always come from the @cresta.ai domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Cresta via other sources should be ignored. If you are uncertain whether you have been contacted by an official Cresta employee, reach out to [email protected]
Responsibilities
• Procurement systems and workflow ownership • Act as the product owner for Zip, including intake forms, routing rules, approval logic, required fields, SLAs, notifications, and catalog basics • Manage and optimize Vendr workflows from intake through signature to improve cycle time, transparency, and stakeholder experience • Enforce a single, standardized intake path for procurement requests and ensure requests move through the system efficiently • Contract operations • Contract operations • Own contract workflow coordination: intake, version control, signature routing, countersignature, and final distribution • Maintain a clean, accurate contract repository with complete metadata (term, renewal dates, notice periods, pricing models, key clauses, attachments) • Ensure contracts and data are centralized, audit-ready, and easy for Finance, Legal, and stakeholders to reference • Renewals and vendor lifecycle management • Build and run a structured renewal calendar with clear checkpoints (e.g., 120 / 90 / 60 / 30 days) • Prevent auto-renew surprises by tracking notice deadlines and driving timely renewals, downsizing, or cancellations • Support vendor rationalization and supplier consolidation by identifying duplicates, low-utilization tools, and opportunities to standardize • Negotiation support • Negotiation support • Independently negotiate smaller, low-risk renewals and net-new agreements under defined thresholds using approved playbooks • Prepare negotiation and renewal packets for larger or more complex deals and escalate appropriately • Data and analytics • Data and analytics • Maintain high-quality vendor master and spend data that leadership can trust • Produce reporting on renewal pipeline, cycle times, bottlenecks, agreement coverage, vendor count trends, and savings evidence support • Provide analysis to inform sourcing decisions, vendor consolidation efforts, and procurement governance
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