{"id":284354,"url":"https://alion.io/job/airalo-procurement-director","title":"Procurement Director","company":{"id":6192,"name":"Airalo","domain":"airalo.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/airalo","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":100,"open_postings":10,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":52,"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"}},"role":"Operations","role_family":"Operations","seniority":"head","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"inferred","locations":["Dubai, United Arab Emirates","United Kingdom","Spain"],"countries":["AE","GB","ES"],"hiring_countries":["GB","ES"],"hiring_countries_total":2,"salary":{"min":76800,"max":115200,"currency":"GBP","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":154204},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-06-24T16:33:25Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-06-24","last_verified_at":"2026-11-06T08:45:18Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":134,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":[],"days_open":134},"description":"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.\nYou 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.\nThis 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.\n\nWhat you'll do:\nProcurement policy & governance\nDesign and roll out Airalo's procurement policy, delegation-of-authority thresholds, supplier onboarding, and competitive-tendering standards.\nEstablish clear, proportionate approval workflows that bring control without slowing the business.\nCategory management\nOwn the category strategies across the major spend areas: network and infrastructure spends, S&M (agencies, media, martech), IT and SaaS, and professional services.\nBuild 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.\nMaintain a validated savings pipeline reported with Finance, and ensure segregation of duties, audit trail, and anti-fraud controls aligned to the SOX-lite framework.\nStrategic sourcing & negotiation\nLead competitive sourcing and high-value negotiations on a total-cost-of-ownership basis; set and deliver savings targets and improve working capital.\nPartner with Finance's zero-based budgeting and the process to convert sourcing wins into budgeted savings;\nSupplier & contract management\nOwn master agreements, a renewals calendar, supplier performance, and third-party risk and due diligence.\nPurchase-to-pay process & systems\nFollow through the PO/PR process and three-way match, support clean accruals, and embed procurement into the ERP as a core stakeholder.\nWhat you'll bring:\n10+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or commercial / category management, including building or materially scaling a procurement function in a fast-growth company.\nDeep 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.\nTrack record of running competitive tenders and complex negotiations with measurable, validated savings.\nHands-on experience designing PO/PR and purchase-to-pay processes, potentially within an ERP (SAP, Oracle, or Microsoft) environment.\nStrong command of procurement policy, delegation of authority, supplier risk, and controls.\nInfluence without authority: credible with senior leaders across Networks, Marketing, and Technology, able to change buying behaviour with evidence.\nPreferred Experience\nExperience in a high-growth company, including controls and audit-readiness maturity.\nDirect involvement in an ERP / P2P implementation.\nComfort operating in a globally distributed, multi-currency, multi-jurisdiction business.","description_format":"text","description_chars":3273,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United Kingdom","iso":"GB","kind":"country"},{"name":"Spain","iso":"ES","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Supply Chain","MVNO","Travel Technology"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-05T13:49:14Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":24,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.86,"p_room":0.28,"age_days":134,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:1","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-11-06T05:58:05Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":154204,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/airalo-procurement-director","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/airalo-procurement-director.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-11-06T11:58:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":21834,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-11-07T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":6192},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=6192"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fairalo-procurement-director"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fairalo-procurement-director"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fairalo-procurement-director"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/airalo-procurement-director\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fairalo-procurement-director"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":284354}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"airalo.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":284354},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. Docs: https://alion.io/developers"}}