Procurement Specialist Jobs

Do you like building relationships and getting the best deal possible? Discord is looking for a Procurement Specialist who will work with other teams across the company to lead long-term value of vendor relationships. You will work with teams such as legal, finance, and different risk teams to identify savings opportunities and guide compliance for procurement policies. You will report to our Procurement Manager.

What you'll be doing

• Support a high level of change management projects that require an understanding of external industry best practices and implementation of Discord policies.
• Deliver relevant procurement training content to team members to guarantee a standard approach for delivery of procurement best practices, policy, and tools.
• Project manage the contract review process with team members and coordinate with legal subject matter experts.
• Identify risks associated with important vendors and manage and help monitor supplier performance against negotiated Service level agreement and MSA terms.
• Develop strategic sourcing skills, practices, and knowledge.
• Perform spend and financial analytics to support commercial term negotiations.
• Understand our requirements; create guidelines and design standard vendor contract protocols.
• Support other ad hoc projects.
• Collaborate with team members in contract negotiations with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements.
• 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.
• Resolve performance issues with assigned suppliers to ensure resolution

What you should have

• Experience reviewing contracts
• Experience in Marketing/Human Resources procurement preferred, but not required
• 4+ years experience with procurement
• Developed documentation on purchasing and processing related policies
• Familiarity with softwares such as Asana and Oracle Fusion
• Experience with spreadsheet/reporting manipulation, including pivot tables, functions

Bonus Points

• Have any of the following procurement related certifications: CPSM, CSCP, CPP, CIPS, or CSCM

The US base salary range for this full-time position is $109,000 to $117,000 + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level. Within the range, individual pay is determined by additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Please note that the compensation details listed in US role postings reflect the base salary only, and do not include equity, or benefits.

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Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive medical insurance including Health, Dental and Vision (plus up to $20,000 for gender affirmation procedures)
• Paid parental leave (plus fertility, adoption and other family planning benefits)
• Flexible long-term work options (remote and hybrid)
• A diverse slate of Employee Resource Groups
• Volunteer time off
• 16+ paid holidays, 4 weeks of PTO + use-what-you-need sick days
• Mental health resources and quarterly wellness stipends
• Plus commuter contributions and other perks for office-based employees

About Us

Discord is a voice, video and text app that helps friends and communities come together to hang out and explore their interests — from artists and activists, to study groups, sneakerheads, plant parents, and more. With 150 million monthly users across 19 million active communities, called servers, Discord has grown to become one of the most popular communications services in the world. Discord was built without selling ads or user data and instead, offers a premium subscription called Nitro that gives users special perks like higher quality streams and fun customizations.

We’re working toward an inclusive world where no one feels like an outsider, where genuine human connection is a click, text chat, or voice call away. A place where everyone can find belonging. Challenging? Heck yes. Rewarding? Double heck yes. It’s a mission that gives us the chance to positively impact millions of people all over the world. So if this strikes a chord with you, come build belonging with us!