Procurement Manager

Smart Bear delivers application integrity for modern tech stacks, ensuring continuous, measurable assurance that software just works as intended with governance to operate at AI speed and scale. Smart Bear offers deep test automation, API lifecycle management, and observability capabilities. With integrations across the SDLC, it sets a new quality standard for application delivery teams.

Smart Bear is trusted by developers, testers, and software engineers across 32,000 organizations, including 75% of the largest financial institutions and industry leaders such as Adobe, Jet Blue, and Microsoft. Smart Bear’s open source tools are downloaded more than 100 million times a month and have earned over 30,000 Git Hub stars from the developer community.

With its best-loved brands, including Swagger, Test Complete, Reflect, QMetry, Zephyr, and more, Smart Bear meets customers where they are to make our technology-driven world a better place.

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At Smart Bear, you will be part of a dynamic team solving one of the most critical challenges facing modern businesses: ensuring the integrity of software in an AI-driven world. Whether you are working directly with customers, driving go to market strategies, supporting operations, building products, or enabling teams, your contributions help shape the future of software quality for organizations worldwide.

Join us in our mission.

• Own Smart Bear’s centralized procurement function as an individual contributor, partnering across the business to create a streamlined, compliant purchasing experience.
• Maximize the value of vendor relationships through strategic sourcing, negotiation, contract management, spend analysis, and usage optimization.
• Partner with Finance, Legal, Information Security, and business stakeholders to manage third-party spend, strengthen controls, and mitigate supplier risk.

• A Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree; professional procurement training or certification such as CPM or CPSM is preferred.
• 5–7 years of progressively responsible procurement experience with a track record of accomplishments, preferably including significant technology and SaaS procurement experience.
• Strong commercial and negotiation skills, including experience negotiating pricing, payment terms, SLAs, renewal provisions, and other contractual terms.
• Experience developing and improving procurement processes, policies, controls, and supporting technology in a growing organization.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to partner effectively across functional areas and with external suppliers.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills, with demonstrated success in a collaborative, fast-growing environment and a high degree of motivation, responsibility, and flexibility.

• You can grow your career at every level.
• We invest in your success as well as the spaces where our teams come together to work, collaborate, and have fun.
• We love celebrating our Smart Bears; we even encourage our crew to take their birthdays off.
• We are guided by a People and Culture organization - an important distinction for us. We think about our team holistically – the whole person.
• We celebrate our differences in experiences, viewpoints, and identities because we know it leads to better outcomes.

• Our main goal at Smart Bear is to make our technology-driven world a better place.
• Smart Bear is committed to ethical corporate practices and social responsibility, promoting good in all the communities we serve.
• Smart Bear is headquartered in Somerville, MA with offices across the world…