Procurement and Spend Manager

Your main goal will be to build and own n8n's procurement and spend-management function, ensuring every vendor relationship delivers strong value, every commitment is well governed, and our processes scale through AI and automation.

What you'll do

• Own the vendor-request intake and selection process from structured business need through evaluation and signed agreement.
• Lead commercial negotiations for our largest and most strategic spend, including consumption-based cloud and AI commitments.
• Create category strategies, leadership briefing materials, and negotiation playbooks that help teams secure strong outcomes across cloud, AI, SaaS, services, and contractors.
• Own the vendor portfolio across onboarding, performance management, renewal, consolidation, and offboarding.
• Reduce SaaS sprawl by tracking adoption, identifying overlapping or underused tools, and taking deliberate action on renewals.
• Manage the contract lifecycle from intake and drafting support through commercial negotiation, execution, central storage, and obligation tracking.
• Govern outbound spend across vendors, travel, expenses, corporate cards, and contractors through clear policies and approval thresholds.
• Partner with FP&A to manage vendor spend against OpEx budgets and feed accurate actuals into financial planning.

What you'll need

• You've meaningfully built or rebuilt a procurement or spend-management function rather than only operating an established one.
• Deep experience across sourcing, vendor management, category strategy, and contracts, ideally within a fast-scaling technology or SaaS company.
• You independently review and negotiate commercial agreements and have secured strong terms on significant commitments, ideally including consumption-based cloud or AI spend.
• You treat company money with care and bring discipline to how spend is approved, committed, monitored, and reported.
• You turn ambiguous, manual workflows into clear, scalable processes and take ownership from initial problem through measurable outcome.
• You instinctively use AI and automation to remove repetitive work and are excited to build your own processes using n8n.

Nice to have

• You've built workflows with n8n and can use the platform to scale your impact without relying on additional headcount.
• You've supported audit, SOX, or GoBD readiness and understand the controls and documentation required to remain audit-ready.
• You've managed vendor security assessments, DPAs, privacy reviews, or other onboarding risk checks.
• You've worked with procurement or SaaS-management platforms and can judge when a dedicated tool will add value—or unnecessary complexity.

What they offer

• Competitive compensation
• Ownership and equity
• 30 days vacation (Europe)
• Remote-first work culture
• Visa sponsorship available for Germany