Airtable is the no-code app platform that empowers people closest to the work to accelerate their most critical business processes. More than 500000 organizations including 80% of the Fortune 100 rely on Airtable to transform how work gets done.

Join Airtable as the Sr. Manager Procurement to own and mature Airtables strategic sourcing and vendor negotiation and operations function. The procurement function is established - this role inherits a capable team and a working operation and is responsible for maturing it: closing the gap in software deal expertise coaching and developing the team and operating as a trusted partner to Engineering IT Finance and Legal. You will report to the Head of Finance Operations.

What youll do

• Lead complex commercial negotiations across Airtables most significant software SaaS infrastructure cloud AI and professional services contracts owning outcomes end-to-end
• Manage and mature the vendor portfolio - rationalizing the supplier base maintaining negotiation continuity and building relationships that give Airtable durable commercial leverage
• Partner with FP&A to build and maintain a forward-looking procurement pipeline proactively flagging upcoming renewals pricing model changes and commitment risk ahead of the planning cycle
• Serve as the primary procurement partner to Engineering IT Finance and Legal - maintaining structured cross-functional cadences and providing deal-cycle visibility across all stakeholder teams
• Report to the CFO on a regular cadence on strategic and large spend deals procurement pipeline and key procurement metrics - translating activity into executive-level signal
• Coach and develop a small team of procurement and sourcing specialists with a focus on closing the software deal expertise gap and growing their ability to lead complex negotiations independently
• Drive continued improvement of procurement processes controls and systems (Workday Airtable and emerging AI tooling) to increase team capacity and reduce manual overhead
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate contract analysis negotiation prep and spend pipeline reporting - operating at a scaled level and modeling that standard for the team

Who you are

• 8 years of procurement experience with demonstrated depth in software SaaS cloud and infrastructure deals
• Track record of leading high-stakes commercial negotiations independently including structuring complex multi-year agreements with consumption-based or hybrid pricing models
• Experience managing or developing procurement or sourcing professionals; brings a coaching orientation and invests in others growth
• Operates as a finance and business partner not just a deal executor - understands how procurement decisions affect budgets accruals and FP&A planning cycles
• Communicates with precision and executive clarity; able to distill a complex commercial situation into a concise recommendation for a CFO-level audience
• Comfortable working in a leaner faster environment - impact comes from stakeholder trust deal outcomes and ensuring the team has the right tools and services at the right time not org size or title authority
• Fluent with modern procurement tools (intake contract management spend visibility) and actively uses AI to increase personal leverage and output quality (Airtable Claude or equivalent)
• Transparent accountable and collaborative - earns trust across legal finance security and engineering stakeholder

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