Sr. Procurement Manager

Recruiters: Marlana Milligan (marly.milligan@appfolio.com) Finance & Accounting Santa Barbara, California San Diego, California

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Description

Hi, We’re AppFolio. 

 

We’re innovators, changemakers, and collaborators. We’re more than just a software company - we’re a cloud-based powerhouse that creates products to make our customers’ lives easier. We’re revolutionizing the way people do business, and we want your ideas, your enthusiasm, and your passion to help us keep on innovating. 
 
The ideal candidate is an experienced Procurement Professional with Subject Matter Expertise with various 3rd party products, solutions, and services. You are a self-starter and a top performer who drives results and employs a formalized sourcing process. You are both curious and a problem solver with an entrepreneurial spirit that you use to identify and solve operational opportunities. You are comfortable with ambiguity and autonomy and will be highly collaborative in your efforts to realize value (TCO) for your stakeholders and AppFolio. 

 

Your impact
  • Sourcing Life Cycle Management: Your focus will be on the vision, ideation, design, product roadmap, and at times, commercial results, innovation, and improvement of a key product portfolio. You will manage the sourcing life cycle for assigned initiatives, partnering with SMEs and stakeholders, defining scope, identifying requirements, conducting the competitive bidding process, evaluating vendors, and negotiating pricing and contract terms. 
  • Category Strategy Development: In conjunction with your key stakeholders, develop 1st generation sourcing strategies for AppFolio’s category spend by conducting a complete assessment of AppFolio’s current and future requirements, analysis of market trends and potential suppliers, analysis of TCO and opportunities to leverage changes in processes, systems, and product/services. Your category strategies should be aligned with AppFolio’s overall values.  
  • Procurement Transformation: Build and maintain collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders, introducing ideas to drive operational improvements, best practices, and operational efficiencies while assisting with the support of all systems and tools required for procurement activities.  
 
Qualifications
  • Problem Solver: Able to ask the right questions, collect and analyze information, problem-solve, and make clear, consistent decisions. Manages through ambiguity. 
  • Priority Setting: Can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal. Zeros in on critical things and puts trivial items to the side. 
  • Organization and Project Management: Ability to effectively manage multiple projects and deliverables simultaneously. Leverages project team members and drives the team to meet milestones. 
  • Communicating Effectively: Able to effectively communicate what we are doing and why we are doing it / Excellent communication with an intuitive ability to adjust the message for the audience, bringing clarity from often ambiguous circumstances by providing clear communication regarding our strategy (what we are doing and why). 
 
Must-Haves 
  • 10+ years of experience in strategic sourcing in a large corporate environment 
  • 10+ years of experience in negotiating highly complex contract terms for 3rd party products and services to be bundled.
  • 10+ years of experience utilizing spend analytics to identify sourcing opportunities. 
  • Experience building and maintaining executive-level stakeholder relationships.
  • Experience in complex or technical indirect category strategy development and execution in a high-spend environment.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business Administration, or related field or equivalent experience. 

 

Compensation & Benefits
The base salary that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $125,600 to $157,000.
The actual base salary for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to: the candidate’s skills, education, experience, etc. 
Please note that base pay is one important aspect of a compelling Total Rewards package. The base pay range indicated here does not include any additional benefits or bonuses/commissions that you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.
Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits - see here.
 
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Why AppFolio

Grow | We enable a culture of high performance, where delivering results is recognized by opportunities for growth and compelling total rewards. Our challenging and meaningful work drive the growth of our business, and ourselves.

Learn | We partner with you to realize your potential by investing in you from the start. We're cultivating a team of big thinkers through coaching and mentorship with our best-in-class leaders, and giving you the time and tools to develop your skills.

Impact | We are creating a world where living in, investing in, managing, and supporting communities feels magical and effortless, freeing people to thrive. We do this by innovating with purpose while cultivating a culture of impact. We learn as much from each other as we do our customers and our communities.

Connect | We excel at hybrid work by fostering an environment that feels flexible, personal and connected, no matter where we are. We create space to fuel innovation and collaboration, and we come together to celebrate, connect, and succeed.

Paddle as One.

Learn more at appfolio.com/company/careers

Statement of Equal Opportunity

At AppFolio, we value diversity in backgrounds and perspectives and depend on it to drive our innovative culture. That’s why we’re a proud Equal Opportunity Employer, and we believe that our products, our teams, and our business are stronger because of it. This means that no matter what race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, age, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, or veteran status, you’re always welcome at AppFolio.

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