Principal, Procurement

Overview

Job Description

Responsibilities

• - Own and continuously improve Monarch’s company-wide procurement process, including system administration for Zip
• - Lead strategic sourcing and negotiations for material vendors, using market intelligence, usage data, and business context to improve pricing, terms, commitments, and overall value
• - Build a proactive vendor-management program that provides clear visibility into contracts, spend, ownership, renewals, utilization, performance, and consolidation opportunities
• - Partner with Finance, Engineering, and business leaders to improve the commercial economics of Monarch’s SaaS, cloud, data, AI, and other technology spend
• - Drive adoption through clear policies, self-service resources, and employee education developed with People, while using AI and automation to make procurement faster and more proactive

Required Skills

• - 7+ years of relevant experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, vendor management, or technology-spend management, including personal ownership of material negotiations
• - Demonstrated experience owning and meaningfully improving procurement processes in a high-growth technology company, ideally within B2C, subscription, SaaS, or fintech
• - Hands-on experience administering a procurement-orchestration or comparable workflow platform, including configuring intake, conditional logic, approval routing, permissions, and reporting
• - Experience sourcing and negotiating technology spend, including SaaS, cloud infrastructure, data, AI, or other consumption-based vendor models
• - Experience partnering with Finance and Engineering to manage cloud or other usage-based technology spend and translate cost and usage insights into commercial decisions
• - Strong commercial and analytical judgment, including the ability to connect spend and utilization data to business value and unit economics
• - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to influence leaders, challenge requests constructively, create clear employee guidance, and drive cross-functional decisions without formal authority
• - A proactive, hands-on operating style and the ability to manage multiple priorities, move between strategy and execution, and bring clear recommendations to ambiguous decisions
• - Demonstrated AI fluency: You use AI regularly in your work, have a clear point of view on where it helps and where it doesn’t, and continuously raise your own bar
• - You are excited to redesign procurement workflows around AI and automation—not just use AI to complete existing tasks faster

Benefits

• - Work wherever you want! As a fully remote company with no central office, we want you to work wherever you are happiest and most productive
• - Competitive cash and equity compensation in a hyper growth, early stage company 🚀
• - Stipend to set-up your ideal working environment
• - Competitive Benefit Plans for employees based on your location (e.g. in the US we offer: Medical, dental and vision benefits and the ability to contribute to a 401k plan)
• - Unlimited PTO
• - 3 day weekend every month! We take off the “First Friday” every month to focus on rest, recuperation, or just having fun!