Procurement Manager
Overview
Lead critical procurement operations in a fast-paced, complex environment as a Procurement Manager supporting purchasing requests from intake through resolution. This fully remote contract role is ideal for a confident procurement professional who can manage competing priorities, troubleshoot purchasing system issues, guide business users, and collaborate effectively across Procurement, Finance, Legal, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.
You will help keep purchasing workflows moving by reviewing requests, resolving exceptions, coordinating supplier onboarding, monitoring operational queues, and identifying opportunities to improve processes and documentation. The contract is expected to last 6–8 months, with potential for extension .
Required Skills
- Demonstrated experience managing procurement or purchasing operations in a complex, fast-paced environment
- Required experience with Coupa
- Proven ability to manage and triage purchasing requests through a procure-to-pay process or help desk
- Experience supporting requisition and purchase order creation, updates, and issue resolution
- Ability to review requests for completeness, coding, approvals, documentation, and purchasing requirements
- Strong stakeholder management skills, including the confidence to communicate effectively and push back when necessary
- Experience troubleshooting workflow and transaction issues in Coupa
- Ability to partner with Procurement, Finance, Legal, business stakeholders, and suppliers to resolve exceptions
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to monitor open requests, aging, and operational queues
- Excellent communication and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to provide clear guidance to business users on purchasing processes and systems
- Comfort working independently in an environment that may be fast-paced, complex, and sometimes ambiguous
Nice to Have Skills
- SAP experience is highly preferred
- Experience working for a public company
- Background supporting procurement operations within a large, complex organization
- Experience coordinating supplier onboarding and master data requests
- Experience maintaining process documentation
- Exposure to continuous improvement initiatives within procurement or procure-to-pay operations
Preferred Education and Experience
Specific educational requirements and minimum years of experience were not provided. Candidates with relevant procurement operations experience, strong Coupa expertise, and experience supporting purchasing workflows in a large or complex organization are preferred.
Other Requirements
- Work arrangement: 100% remote
- Preferred availability during Central or Eastern Time Zone working hours to align with the majority of the team; Pacific Time Zone candidates may also be considered
- Contract duration is expected to be 6–8 months, with potential for extension
- SAP experience is highly preferred; Coupa experience is required
