About the Role
We are looking for a Procurement Manager to lead regional sourcing and procurement across indirect categories. You will operate at the intersection of procurement expertise and digital intelligence, using data, AI-powered platforms, and category insight to drive smarter sourcing decisions and measurable customer value. This is a hands-on, customer-facing role requiring some face-to-face interaction with customers and suppliers.
Responsibilities
- Support the development and execution of regional procurement strategy.
- Lead end-to-end sourcing across indirect categories, including IT hardware, software, licenses, and professional services.
- Run RFx processes (RFP/RFQ) on the Nomia platform.
- Evaluate suppliers on commercial competitiveness, capability, compliance, and service quality.
- Negotiate pricing, service level agreements, and contractual terms.
- Build and manage relationships with regional suppliers.
- Expand the supplier ecosystem to meet indirect procurement needs.
- Maintain and manage the regional preferred supplier list for indirect categories.
- Support category strategies for indirect spend, using AI-driven category intelligence and regional market data.
- Apply category management principles to regional spend where there is no global coverage.
- Analyze regional spend and supply markets to identify cost optimisation opportunities.
- Share regional supplier market trends and insights with Category Management and Global Buying teams.
- Manage supplier onboarding, including compliance checks, sanctions screening, and contractual documentation.
- Support supplier adoption of the Nomia platform and adherence to structured RFx processes.
- Support sourcing activities for new customer contracts.
- Partner with Business Development, Customer Success, Legal, Finance, and Product teams.
- Represent Nomia in supplier and customer meetings.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of sourcing processes and procurement playbooks.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in a sourcing and procurement role.
- Proven ability to support category strategies and SRM initiatives.
- Strong understanding of sourcing and procurement, S2P workflows and processes, and the underlying technologies.
- A high level of AI fluency, with experience in data analysis, sourcing, commercial and contract negotiation, and SRM.
- Experience working with enterprise SaaS is advantageous.
- Effective, empathetic verbal and written communication with stakeholders at all levels of seniority.
- Must be within a commutable distance of a Nomia office.
- Able to travel within your region when needed.
Skills
- Data analysis
- Sourcing
- Commercial negotiation
- Contract negotiation
- SRM (Supplier Relationship Management)
- AI fluency
Location
- Regional (with commutable distance to Nomia office)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Limited regional travel
Experience Level
- 5+ years
About the Company
- Nomia is on a mission to make tail spend simpler, more transparent, and more valuable.
- We act as an extension of our customers' procurement teams, aggregating and executing the end-to-end sourcing, supplier onboarding, and contracting process for indirect spend.
- We are a global team, with Procurement Hubs across Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia.
