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The Procurement team partners with Finance, IT, Security, Legal, Privacy, and business teams to make purchasing decisions that are cost-effective, compliant, and aligned with business needs. We are establishing category strategies, improving spend visibility, and strengthening supplier and contract governance.\nIn this role, you’ll:\nBuild and maintain a complete view of SaaS and software applications, owners, contracts, renewal dates, spend, license counts, and utilization.\n\nIdentify software overlap, redundancy, and shadow IT; develop consolidation plans that reduce vendor count and cost while supporting business continuity.\n\nManage the renewal calendar and engage stakeholders 120-180 days ahead of renewals; right-size licenses and negotiate co-terms, multi-year pricing, price protections, and flexible true-down rights.\n\nPartner with IT, Security, and business owners to assess platform-versus-point-solution choices and develop plans to retire or replace tools.\n\nEstablish intake and approval workflows that review new software purchases for duplication, security, privacy, and cost before commitment.\n\nDevelop and execute category strategies across assigned indirect spend, which may include cloud and infrastructure, professional services, marketing, data providers, facilities, travel, telecom, and HR-related services.\n\nLead RFI, RFP, and RFQ processes from requirements gathering through vendor selection, negotiation, and award.\n\nNegotiate commercial terms and partner with Legal on contract provisions, including SLAs, liability, data protection, termination, and renewals.\n\nManage supplier performance and risk through business reviews, scorecards, due diligence, and ongoing coordination with Legal, Privacy, and Security.\n\nApply procurement policy and approval requirements, including ensuring an approved PO is in place before signature; maintain accurate supplier and contract records for audit readiness.\n\nReport spend, savings, sourcing pipeline, and supplier risk to Procurement leadership and Finance, using an agreed methodology for hard savings, cost avoidance, and avoided true-ups.\n\nWe’re looking for candidates who have:\n5+ years of experience in procurement, sourcing, or category management, including meaningful ownership of SaaS or software spend.\n\nA demonstrated track record of measurable savings through vendor consolidation, license optimization, and negotiation.\n\nExperience negotiating SaaS and software agreements, including subscription terms, usage metrics, renewals, true-ups, and price protections.\n\nWorking knowledge of commercial contract terms and the ability to partner effectively with Legal.\n\nStrong analytical skills, including experience with spend analysis, utilization analysis, and business cases in Excel or similar tools.\n\nThe ability to influence engineers, executives, and budget owners and to build alignment across functions without relying on formal authority.\n\nClear written and verbal communication skills.\n\nNice to have experience:\n Working at a high-growth technology company or a company preparing for, or recently through, an IPO.\n\nUsing SaaS management, spend-visibility, procurement, or ERP platforms.\n\nManaging cloud, data, or infrastructure categories.\n\nSupporting security, privacy, or third-party risk reviews.\n\nA CPSM, CIPS, or equivalent professional certification.\n\nAI at Chainalysis\nAI is not a feature at Chainalysis - it is a new way of working. One that turns instructions into work done, and helps us move faster than the threats we're built to counter, and we expect our employees to take ownership of the output and ensure quality. As the world's most trusted blockchain analytics platform, Chainalysis sits at a rare intersection of proprietary data, regulatory relationships and crypto expertise that makes it uniquely placed to shape and lead the next era of AI-driven intelligence - and we expect everyone here, regardless of role, to be an active part of it.\nAI fluency is tied directly to how we measure performance and how we plan to win. There is no substitute for your own curiosity. We provide the tools, workflows, and space to experiment - but the expectation is that you develop these capabilities yourself, bring ideas, and collaborate across teams to reinvent the way work gets done. We are not using AI to do less. We are using it to do what was never possible before.\nAbout Chainalysis\nChainalysis is the blockchain data platform, making it easy to connect the movement of digital assets to real-world services. Powered by deep blockchain data and AI, organizations can investigate illicit activity, manage risk exposure, and develop innovative market solutions built on the industry's most trusted blockchain intelligence. Our mission is to build trust in blockchains, blending safety and security with an unwavering commitment to growth and innovation.\nYou belong here.\nAt Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.\nWe encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. 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