This role provides strategic direction, governance, and oversight to ensure cost optimization, risk mitigation, supplier performance excellence, and alignment with corporate objectives.

russian-American aerospace company with a focus on developing and manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Key responsibilities include:

• Strategic Sourcing & Category Leadership

• Own and lead the enterprise indirect procurement strategy, aligning category roadmaps with business priorities and long-term growth plans

• Provide executive oversight for complex, high-value sourcing initiatives across all indirect spend categories

• Establish and govern category strategies, including demand management, supplier consolidation, and innovation partnerships

• Sponsor and oversee RFx processes (RFI, RFP, RFQ) for mission-critical goods and services

• Lead or approve negotiations for major contracts, including pricing models, SLAs, risk allocation, and long-term agreements

• Supplier & Contract Governance

• Set the strategic framework for supplier relationship management, performance management, and risk mitigation

• Build and maintain executive-level relationships with key strategic suppliers

• Partner with Legal and Compliance to oversee contract standards, negotiation strategy, and approval authority

• Ensure governance over contract lifecycle management, renewals, and commercial obligations

• Resolve escalated supplier issues and lead remediation or exit strategies as needed

• Executive Stakeholder Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders and executives across the organization

• Translate business strategy into procurement-led solutions that balance cost, risk, speed, and innovation

• Influence stakeholders on sourcing decisions, demand planning, and total cost of ownership considerations

• Champion procurement best practices, governance, and policy adherence at the leadership level

• Procurement Operations & Organizational Leadership

• Provide leadership and direction to indirect procurement teams, including coaching, performance management, and capability development

• Establish scalable procurement operating models, policies, and approval frameworks

• Oversee procurement execution, including requisitions, purchase orders, vendor onboarding, and invoice resolution

• Ensure robust documentation, audit readiness, and process discipline across procurement operations

• Compliance, Risk & Ethics

• Ensure enterprise compliance with procurement policies, approval authorities, and internal controls

• Provide oversight for SOX, FAR/DFARS, cybersecurity, and regulatory compliance as applicable

• Lead supplier risk management efforts, including financial, operational, cybersecurity, and regulatory risk

• Promote ethical sourcing, sustainability, and supplier diversity initiatives aligned with corporate values

• Reporting, Analytics & Continuous Improvement

• Define and monitor KPIs for spend visibility, savings, supplier performance, and risk

• Present procurement performance and insights to executive leadership

• Sponsor enhancements to procurement systems and tools (ERP, P2P, contract lifecycle management)

• Lead continuous improvement, automation, and digital transformation initiatives across procurement

• Contribute to enterprise governance, policy development, and long-range procurement planning

Required qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field (MBA or advanced degree preferred)
• 10+ years of progressive experience in indirect procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain leadership
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-level indirect spend categories (IT, software, professional services, facilities, etc.)
• Proven track record of developing and executing procurement strategies at scale
• Executive-level negotiation and contract management expertise
• Strong understanding of procurement governance, compliance, and risk management frameworks
• Experience with ERP and P2P platforms (SAP, Oracle, Workday, Coupa, Ariba, or similar)
• Advanced financial acumen, data analysis, and spend analytics capabilities
• Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder influence skills
• Demonstrated people leadership and organizational change management experience

Salary: $160,000 - $240,000 a year

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Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.

Our Technical Recruiting team builds the teams that build Plaid. We partner with leaders across Engineering, Product, Design, Data, and Security to deliver thoughtful, candidate-first processes and continually raise the bar for how we scale.

Product is at the heart of how Plaid builds and scales. The Product recruiter ensures we bring in exceptional PM talent that drives the next generation of Plaid's products and platform experiences. This role is critical to our success.

In this role, you'll deepen your expertise in stakeholder influence, closing strategy, and programmatic recruiting for high-impact product roles. Over time, you'll have opportunities to shape how Plaid recruits product talent at scale, lead strategic hiring initiatives, and mentor other recruiters.

Responsibilities

• Own the full-cycle recruiting process for Product Management roles, from sourcing and outreach through final rounds and offer close
• Partner directly with senior Product and EPD leaders to deeply understand team goals, role requirements, and success profiles
• Build and manage pipelines of high-quality PM talent through creative sourcing, networking, and market mapping
• Serve as a trusted advisor to hiring managers, providing guidance on hiring strategy, interview design, and candidate experience
• Lead candidate evaluation and final debriefs, ensuring decisions align with Plaid’s hiring bar and values
• Negotiate and close offers thoughtfully, balancing candidate motivations and business needs
• Track and analyze funnel metrics to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement
• Collaborate cross-functionally with other EPD recruiters and recruiting operations to drive consistency, share insights, and refine recruiting playbooks

Qualifications

• 5+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience (in-house strongly preferred)
• Proven track record of full-cycle recruiting for Product Management roles
• Deep understanding of the product discipline, including strategy, execution, and technical fluency
• Strong sourcing skills; able to build targeted pipelines using creative approaches and market intelligence
• Experienced in influencing senior stakeholders and shaping hiring decisions through data, insights, and thoughtful partnership
• Skilled in offer negotiation, closing, and candidate engagement across competitive markets
• Comfortable managing multiple high-priority searches in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Candidate-first mindset with a focus on empathy, transparency, and long-term relationship-building
• Data-driven; uses funnel metrics and market insights to guide strategy and improve process

Additional Information

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description.

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What you'll do

• Partnering with an array of engineering and sales leaders in aligning People and business priorities.
• Advising on organizational design, talent planning, and leadership effectiveness.
• Guiding leaders through sensitive and complex people challenges.

What you need

• Extensive HRBP/People Partner experience in multinational engineering/technical environments.
• Strong business acumen, data-driven decision-making, and stakeholder influence.

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