Head of Procurement

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About Faire

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About this role

This role is a unique opportunity to architect and own procurement at Faire during a pivotal period of growth. You’ll define what great looks like - balancing governance with speed, policy with autonomy, and cost control with business enablement. Your work will have an immediate financial impact and lay the foundation for the future.

We are looking for a strategic and execution-oriented Procurement & Sourcing leader to build, scale, and lead our Procurement function. This critical role that will sit at the intersection of Finance, Legal, People, and every internal Business Unit will be responsible for transforming how Faire manages vendor engagement, purchasing workflows, sourcing operations, and internal controls.

We are seeking a player / coach who can both roll up their sleeves to run sourcing efforts directly and also design scalable systems, policies and governance for procurement operations. You’ll be the foundational hire in a growing function, with responsibility for hiring additional sourcing professionals and executing the long-term vision for Procurement at Faire.

What you’ll do

Strategy & Infrastructure: develop and execute the long-term vision for Procurement at Faire, including the definition of principles, policies, and KPIs. Lead the design of purchasing workflows and approval flows. Design and maintain Procurement policies that balances controls with Faire’s culture of speed and autonomy.

• Strategic Sourcing: Set category strategies for top spend areas and own the savings and cost-avoidance targets. Lead the most strategic negotiations and enable your team to run the rest.
• Systems & Operations: partner with Systems, IT, Accounting and Legal teams to improve the procurement platform implementation including PO line item logic, invoice matching, user experience, and implementation of AI tools to increase efficiency. Represent the procurement team’s interest in the financial systems technology stack.
• Leadership: serve as a trusted thought partner to leadership on procurement strategy and spend governance. Hire and lead future sourcing experts to achieve outcomes aligned with the procurement team

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ble paid time off, plus company-wide recharge days

• Paid parental leave up to 16 weeks
• Comprehensive health coverage, with options varying by location
• Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot, including a lifetime reimbursement allowance
• Mental health support and coaching through Modern Health
• Stipends to support your professional development, wellness, and work from home needs
• Employer-sponsored retirement plan, dependent on country of employment

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog .

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form ( https://bit.ly/faire-form)

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