Rubrik - Procurement Operation Manager

Location: Bangalore

About the Team & Role:

Rubriks Global Procurement team as we transform and scale our organisation to meet the demands of a hyper-growth Silicon Valley tech unicorn. As a strategic and visionary leader, you thrive on fostering collaboration, inspiring your team, and challenging the status quo. You're self-motivated, proactive, and enthusiastic about leading change to deliver meaningful impact. You approach challenges with creativity, curiosity, and a willingness to dive deep into solving complex operational questions.

As Rubrik continues to evolve rapidly, you are excited to be part of the journeyto lead, innovate, and elevate those around you. You'll report directly to the Senior Manager of Procurement Operations. In this leadership role, you're not only responsible for day-to-day operations, but also serve as a strategic leader setting vision, empowering your team, and driving sustainable improvements in Procurement's Procure-to-Pay processes and peripheral areas. Your areas of focus include, but aren't limited to:

- Manage the day-to-day internal teams workload and processes for all purchases

- Drive innovative solutions to deliver measurable improvements within procurement tools and processes, proactively looking for areas of opportunity.

- Create meaningful insights and recommendations based on metrics and analytics.

- Youll also be responsible for growing our team knowledge and strengthening partnerships internally and across business units in Accounting, Finance, IT (among others) in the Rubrik Bangalore office. We are looking for someone who thrives in a dynamic environment, inspires others through their vision and passion, and is ready to help us scale our Procurement function to new heights

What you'll do:

- Influence and improve procurement and sourcing processes, ensuring process efficiency and policy compliance.

- Lead team to build internal business partner relationships.

- Proactively anticipate areas of opportunity and identify process gaps to provide thoughtful, well-crafted solutions and implement them

- Develop actionable insights and recommendations based on analytics and procurement metrics, leveraging data to elevate strategic decision-making.

- Lead and develop a team of procurement operations analysts.

- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including IT, accounts payable, finance and legal to provide a seamless procurement experience for Rubrikans.

Experience youll need:

- Bachelors degree (Masters degree preferred) from an accredited university in business, finance or supply chain management and 6+ years of in direct procurement experience.

- Mastery of procurement tools (Coupa experience is a plus), techniques and processes.

- History of strategically managing and developing an internal Procurement team

- Strong leadership, internal and external relationship building and communication skills.

- Excellent partnering, communication, and project management skills in leading sourcing initiatives.

- Comfortable working with large and sometimes ambiguous data sets from various procurement applications such as Coupa, Netsuite

- Deep knowledge of a range of spend categories and the ability to quickly master new areas.

- Transparent in dealings and a reputation for honesty and integrity.

- Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced, hyper-growth environment.

Location & Work Hours

- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka (Hybrid)

- Work Hours: 4:30 PM - 1:30 AM IST

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