Senior Manager, Procurement Operations - Hardware
$216,000–$240,000 year
Hybrid · San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Senior Manager of Procurement Operations (Hardware) will own procurement operations for assigned hardware business units and serve as the primary DRI. Responsible for end-to-end hardware procurement from intake through PO creation, supplier coordination, receiving readiness, and invoice-readiness, while redesigning workflows and operating rhythms for scale. Drive standardization, automation, AI-enabled process improvements, and data-driven controls to improve cycle time, PO quality, exception rates, and downstream financial outcomes. Collaborate with hardware teams, Strategic Sourcing, Finance, Legal, Security, Financial Risk Management, Accounting, and Accounts Payable to ensure policy alignment and reliable handoffs. Leverage ERP and procurement platforms (Zip, Oracle, Coupa, SAP, NetSuite, Jira, ServiceNow) and build scalable workflows, SOPs, dashboards, templates, and self-service guidance. Based in San Francisco, CA with a hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week) and relocation assistance for new employees.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of procurement operations, P2P, or related experience, ideally in hardware, goods, manufacturing, infrastructure, lab, data center, device, or similarly complex physical-goods environments
- Strong working understanding of fiscal controls, accounting-adjacent procurement practices, invoice matching, accrual support, commitment visibility, and audit-ready documentation
- Ability to navigate request-to-PO operations, supplier workflows, PO maintenance, receiving dependencies, change management, and downstream invoice-readiness requirements
- Understanding of how people, process, policy, systems, data, and accounting outcomes connect
- Experience using procurement platforms such as Zip, Oracle, Coupa, SAP, NetSuite, Jira, ServiceNow or similar
- Ability to balance speed with strong operational controls in urgent scenarios
- Comfort with evolving policies, priorities, and operating models
- Strong communication with business partners, Procurement peers, Finance, Legal, Security, Accounting, AP, and Systems teams
- Ability to use data and metrics to drive improvements in cycle time, PO quality, exception rates, receiving readiness, invoice matching, and accrual readiness
- Ability to build scalable workflows, automations, and SOPs that reduce manual follow-up and recurring exceptions
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building AI-enabled procurement workflows
- Strong background in hardware procurement and physical-goods environments
- Proven ability to design scalable, automated procurement processes
- Experience with ERP and procurement platforms (Zip, Oracle, Coupa, SAP, NetSuite, Jira, ServiceNow)
- Data-driven mindset with metrics to improve cycle time, PO quality, and invoice matching
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