Senior Procurement Manager, Buyer

Company Description

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Our vision is a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

FLEXWORK is an employee-centric reimagining of how we work. We built FLEXWORK based on employee feedback – it is about flexibility, trust, and choice whenever possible. It’s been a journey of disruption that has yielded the best of our values. We offer as much flexibility as possible, and choices that enable you to be most productive, including benefits that meet your needs and learning opportunities that you feel passionate about.

Your Career

Palo Alto Networks is building a world-class Source to Pay Team and is looking for an exceptional Senior Procurement Manager to lead our buyer and analyst procurement team. This position requires a well-rounded leader who has demonstrated the ability to deliver results in a global, hyper-growth, dynamic, and fast-paced environment. The Procurement Manager will be passionate about all aspects of Purchasing with specific experience and focus on procurement operations, indirect procurement, and supplier diversity.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the company’s overall direction and performance of the Procurement function and will transform the process into the most effective and efficient solution for scalable, long-term growth. They will be able to streamline workflows between the business processes and systems impacted by indirect procurement and will develop key performance indicators (KPI’s) to measure and monitor success. These actions will result in the right business decisions for the company, as well as its internal and external stakeholders.

We expect office-based employees to be in the office four days per week, with one day working from where they choose. We believe being together facilitates casual conversations and those magic moments where we can work on issues and ideas informally. These moments build capability and deepen trusted relationships and allow our people to feel safe in taking risks and being disruptive. Like so many companies, we are working through the details and things could change …. but in general if a role is deemed office-based we want our teams to be together four days per week.

Your Impact

• Effectively communicate PTP values and responsibilities, consistently providing education to stakeholders on how to most effectively engage Procurement
• Manage global, PTP transactions to ensure purchase order (PO) issuance are executed in accordance with the company standards and policies
• Partner with internal stakeholders and suppliers to establish advantageous purchasing, commercial terms, and payment requirements
• Consistently draw from past experience and ongoing benchmarking to optimize processes
• Lead and manage all aspects of the Indirect PTP function including the development of global strategies, policies, and operations (e.g. supplier risk/onboarding/data master, procurement, compliance, etc)
• Ensure PTP policies are documented, monitored, and, applied globally and regionally as necessary
• Cultivate relationships with team and key stakeholders by listening, partnering, and educating teams on how PTP values and strategies will optimize the business
• Mentor team members - Ensure they are set up for success and can achieve and/or exceed required expectations and drive career development plans
• Streamline, transform and monitor the effectiveness of the overall operations. Drive PTP continuous improvement, automating processes, and implementing change management activities as applicable
• Collaborate with direct and indirect sourcing to manage Supplier Diversity efforts
• Develop and manage PTP key performance indicators and compliance reports - analyzing trends, monitoring various on policy vs. off-policy transactions, spend, preferred vs. non-preferred suppliers, internal customer feedback, etc.
• Evaluate supplier risk; manage supplier onboarding and ongoing data management
• Collaborate with the Strategic Sourcing function to insure policies, practices, tools, and strategies align for overall team goals achievement
• Review and improve PTP cycle time, working closely with internal stakeholders including Supply Chain Management, Finance, Tax, Treasury, Accounting, etc.

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Strong MS Office and presentation skills
• Advanced skills in quantitative applications such as Business Intelligence, Data Warehouse solutions, Microsoft Excel, etc.
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret information from various sources
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Team-player with a can-do attitude
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment
• Minimum of 8+ years within Indirect PTP function
• Bachelor's degree required in Finance, Supply Chain Management, or other business-related field or equivalent military experience required

Additional Information

The Team

Our Procurement Operations team is a team of professionals with extensive process and procedure commitment when it comes to supporting the business in purchasing for the organization. We are a team dedicated to driving automation in our systems and our business processes. This team has a proven track record of success in the organization for automating anything manual to make the lives of our business partners easier to get things done that matter most. We’re dedicated to meeting and exceeding our KPIs all the while enjoying every day. If you have a passion for procurement with the knowledge and experience, we want you!

Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at [email protected].

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be between $129,700/yr to $209,750/yr. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.