We believe everyone should be able to participate and thrive in the economy. So we’re building tools that make commerce easier and more accessible to all. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. Our new reader helps our sellers accept chip cards and NFC payments, and our Cash app lets people pay each other back instantly. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. Let’s shorten the distance between having an idea and making a living from it. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

The individual must demonstrate highly effective collaboration internally and externally, have a passionate focus on success, commitment to continuous improvement and a relentless drive to succeed. The role will proactively develop, maintain and execute category and vendor strategies for our supplier portfolio and in collaboration with our business partners be primarily responsible for managing the ‘cradle to grave’ vendor management lifecycle. The successful candidate must have strong analytical and communication skills and a proven ability to build relationships with business stakeholders across the organization to ensure alignment of objectives and priorities. The position will report to the Global Procurement Lead.

You will:

• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with key stakeholders aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements
• Proactively collaborate with business partners and stakeholders to lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify key benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements
• Develop and maintain category strategies to meet business objectives (e.g. best cost, quality, service, resilience.) Ensure category strategy aligns with existing and future needs
• Initiate and execute vendor rationalization plan(s) to optimize existing vendors to deliver cost reduction, supply assurance, quality improvement, innovation and increased vendor utility
• Review existing contracts and understand business requirements; formulate guidelines and design standard vendor contract protocols
• Assist to establish vendor life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new vendors, manage data for vendor performance and manage vendor off-boarding and transition
• Assist in development financial analytics to support commercial term negotiations with performance dashboards and ROI based evaluation tools
• Identify and realization of cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality
• Continually explore new technologies to optimize performance, efficiency, and transparency to stakeholders
• Support internal and external audit, SOX compliance and due diligence requests as necessary
• Support other ad hoc projects as needed

You have:

• 5-8 years of strategic sourcing, procurement or vendor management experience; in a high growth technology environment preferred
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Exceptional negotiating skills, along with a strong presence and ability to influence others, including senior leadership
• Strong communication and project management to demonstrate project status, key actions, risks and opportunities
• Self-directed, able to work independently, as well as work in a team-orientated and fast paced environment; Ability to navigate in unstructured environments whilst garnering trust with internal customers.
• Superior interpersonal and presentation skills with proven track record of success in prior roles
• Demonstrated quantitative and analytical skills to problem solving with a focus on managing within a team environment with strong attention to detail and sense of urgency
• Proactively work to resolve performance issues with assigned suppliers to ensure effective and timely resolution
• Ability to successfully leverage technology and financial systems to extract and analyze data
• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited top tier university preferably in Procurement, Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, Commerce, Economics or related field. MBA/advanced technical degree preferred

At Square, we value diversity and always treat all employees and job applicants based on merit, qualifications, competence, and talent. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.