Procurement Director

We are hiring the Procurement Lead to build the procurement function and policy from the ground up and drive standardization and savings across our largest spend categories: Networks, Sales & Marketing, and IT/Software.

You will design how Airalo buys, embed a disciplined purchase-to-pay process into our new ERP, and turn fragmented, function-by-function spending into a governed, competitive, and auditable process, and drive savings to every dollar we spend with third parties.

This is a senior role for a builder who will set the policy, run the high-value negotiations, and deliver hard savings that fund growth and protect EBITDA. You will report to the CFO and partner across every spending function in the company.

What you'll do:

Procurement policy & governance

• Design and roll out Airalo's procurement policy, delegation-of-authority thresholds, supplier onboarding, and competitive-tendering standards.
• Establish clear, proportionate approval workflows that bring control without slowing the business.

Category management

• Own the category strategies across the major spend areas: network and infrastructure spends, S&M (agencies, media, martech), IT and SaaS, and professional services.
• Build single source of truth with spends visibility and a vendor taxonomy so we know what we buy, from whom, and on what terms; build standardization and a framework to adhere to credit terms.
• Maintain a validated savings pipeline reported with Finance, and ensure segregation of duties, audit trail, and anti-fraud controls aligned to the SOX-lite framework.

Strategic sourcing & negotiation

• Lead competitive sourcing and high-value negotiations on a total-cost-of-ownership basis; set and deliver savings targets and improve working capital.
• Partner with Finance's zero-based budgeting and the process to convert sourcing wins into budgeted savings;

Supplier & contract management

• Own master agreements, a renewals calendar, supplier performance, and third-party risk and due diligence.

Purchase-to-pay process & systems

• Follow through the PO/PR process and three-way match, support clean accruals, and embed procurement into the ERP as a core stakeholder.

What you'll bring:

• 10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or commercial / category management, including building or materially scaling a procurement function in a fast-growth company.
• Deep category expertise across indirect spend (marketing, IT/SaaS, professional services); exposure to network, telecom, or infrastructure spend like capacity, routing, wholesale in a must have.
• Track record of running competitive tenders and complex negotiations with measurable, validated savings.
• Hands-on experience designing PO/PR and purchase-to-pay processes, potentially within an ERP (SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft) environment.
• Strong command of procurement policy, delegation of authority, supplier risk, and controls.
• Influence without authority: credible with senior leaders across Networks, Marketing, and Technology, able to change buying behaviour with evidence.

Preferred Experience

• Experience in a high-growth company, including controls and audit-readiness maturity.
• Direct involvement in an ERP / P2P implementation.
• Comfort operating in a globally distributed, multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction business.