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As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content-and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.\nWe develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.\nWe are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation-supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.\nWhat We Build\nOur products-Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA -are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.\nEureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.\n\nWit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.\n\nThese programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students.\nWhere We’re Headed\nGreat Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey-from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.\nOur long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact-not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.\n\nJob Purpose\nReporting to the Associate Director, Print Operations, the Senior Print Procurement Analyst owns strategic sourcing and procurement for Great Minds’ print manufacturing portfolio, one of the organization’s largest categories of annual spend. This role leads competitive sourcing events, builds the cost models that drive award decisions, negotiates pricing and terms with national commercial printers, and manages ongoing vendor performance to protect cost, quality, and delivery for curriculum products shipped to schools and districts nationwide.\nThe Senior Analyst works as a direct partner to Demand Planning, which sets title, quantity, and timing needs, and aligns with Finance, Product, and Sales to confirm annual print requirements. The role is expected to lead by example in applying AI-enabled tools to procurement: generating RFQs, normalizing and comparing supplier bids, building cost scenarios, automating purchase order workflows, and continuously improving how Great Minds buys print.\n\nResponsibilities\nStrategic Sourcing and Vendor Negotiation\nLead competitive sourcing events end to end: define requirements and specifications, issue RFQs/RFPs, evaluate supplier responses, and present award recommendations to Operations leadership.\n\nNegotiate pricing, payment terms, capacity commitments, service levels, and multi-year agreements with national printers such as Quad/Graphics, Command Web Offset, and other commercial and specialty print manufacturers.\n\nDevelop and execute a category sourcing strategy for print, including vendor consolidation, capacity allocation across vendors, and qualification of new suppliers to reduce risk and cost.\n\nOwn measurable savings and cost-avoidance targets for print spend; track and report results to the supply chain leadership team.\n\nConduct cost analyses that account for unit price, paper, freight and landed cost, make-ready and run-length economics, inventory carrying cost, and risk.\n\nMonitor paper and commodity market trends and advise leadership on timing, pricing exposure, and procurement strategy.\n\nAnalytics, Modeling, and Reporting\nBuild and maintain print cost models that interpolate vendor quotes by page count, quantity, and specification to support budgeting, reprint decisions, and what-if scenarios.\n\nDevelop vendor scorecards and performance analytics covering price, on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and capacity, and lead periodic vendor business reviews.\n\nPlan, track, and report print spend, savings, and procurement metrics to the supply chain team; identify trends and recommend corrective action.\n\nSupport annual print budgeting and forecasting with Finance and Demand Planning, including variance analysis against plan.\n\nAI-Enabled Procurement and Process Improvement\nApply AI tools (such as Claude) to generate RFQ documentation, analyze and compare supplier proposals, draft vendor communications, and streamline purchase order issuance, tracking, and reconciliation.\n\nIdentify, design, and implement automation and AI-driven improvements across print procurement; partner with Operations and Technology teams on tooling and workflow design.\n\nActively test, refine, train others on, and document AI-powered sourcing and procurement workflows so they become repeatable team practices.\n\nMaintain key documentation, including SOPs, detailed ISBN print specifications, and vendor print status tracking.\n\nPrint Production and Vendor Management\nApply deep knowledge of print production (paper stock, binding, color, file formats, press requirements) to validate specifications and evaluate vendor capabilities and proposed alternatives.\n\nCoordinate print schedules and vendor timelines with Demand Planning and production partners; proactively identify and escalate risks from capacity constraints, paper availability, or specification changes.\n\nManage purchase order creation, approval, and reconciliation in NetSuite in coordination with Finance, resolving invoice and pricing discrepancies with vendors.\n\nVisit key vendors periodically to deepen relationships and knowledge of print manufacturing, and conduct vendor qualification and onboarding activities.\n\nCollaborate with Operations leadership to align procurement strategy, supplier relationships, and policies across categories.\n\nRequirements\nRequirements\n5+ years of experience in print procurement, print sourcing, print manufacturing, or print operations, including direct vendor negotiation with commercial printers.\n\nDemonstrated experience leading large, competitive RFQ/RFP processes and making data-driven award recommendations.\n\nStrong analytical skills: advanced Excel (pivot tables, lookups, modeling) and the ability to build cost comparisons, and what-if scenarios from supplier proposals.\n\nWorking knowledge of print production specifications and processes (offset, digital, binding and finishing, paper) sufficient to verify vendor assumptions.\n\nHands-on experience with, or demonstrated aptitude and enthusiasm for, applying AI tools to sourcing, procurement, or operational workflows.\n\nExperience managing purchase orders and procurement transactions in an ERP system (NetSuite or similar).\n\nStrong negotiation, vendor management, communication, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.\n\nHighly results-oriented, with personal accountability, urgency, and persistence in completing high-quality work.\n\nAbility to manage multiple sourcing events and projects simultaneously without missing critical deadlines, and to anticipate roadblocks with proactive solutions.\n\nProficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Smartsheet or similar project management software, and SharePoint or similar collaboration platforms.\n\nPreferred Qualifications\nExperience in educational publishing, curriculum development, or K-12 education.\n\nKnowledge of instructional materials manufacturing, warehousing, and distribution, including landed cost and freight considerations.\n\nExperience with AI-assisted sourcing, procurement analytics, or workflow automation platforms.\n\nExperience with paper purchasing.\n\nWorking knowledge of NetSuite and Salesforce.\n\nRequired Education\nBachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, operations, information systems, or a related field.\nStatus\nFull-time\nLocation\nRemote\n\nThe expected base salary range for this position is $85,000-$93,000, however the offered salary may be higher or lower than the above range dependent on numerous factors including, but not limited to location, work experience, skills and internal equity considerations. The base salary is not inclusive of benefits or other incentives.\nA cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position.\nNew employees will be required to successfully complete a background check.\nAny communication to applicants relating to the Great Minds hiring process will only come from email addresses with the domains greatminds.org or greatminds.recruitee.com. If in the course of the application or hiring process with Great Minds you are contacted through another domain, are requested to provide banking or other sensitive information, or you note any other suspicious activity, please contact \nGreat Minds is an equal opportunity employer. We will extend equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, religion, color, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity), national origin, disability, age, genetic information, or any other status protected under applicable federal, state, or local laws. 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