Procurement Manager

Procurement Manager LocationLondonEmployment TypeFull timeDepartmentOperationsAbout 9fin9fin is the AI platform powering global debt markets — the world’s largest asset class at over $145 trillion.Debt markets are vast, global, and mission-critical, yet still run on fragmented data, PDFs, and manual workflows. 9fin replaces this broken infrastructure with a single platform that centralises proprietary credit data, deep analysis, and high-value workflows across global markets.Today, 9fin powers teams at 300+ blue-chip institutions worldwide, including global banks, asset managers, private equity firms, law firms, and advisors. The business is scaling at exceptional speed, with rapid expansion in the US and best-in-class retention driven by deep workflow adoption.We’re at a defining inflection point. With proven product-market fit and strong, global market pull, 9fin is accelerating toward becoming the category-defining platform for debt markets worldwide.The opportunity9fin is scaling fast, and the way we buy needs to scale with us. Today, procurement is handled ad hoc across Finance, Legal, and IT. Requests route differently every time, subscriptions duplicate across teams, contracts auto-renew without review, and there is no central view of who we buy from, what we pay, or when contracts come up. The cost is real: missed negotiation leverage, overlapping tools, and senior time spent on work that should sit with a dedicated owner.The Procurement Manager is a new, standalone role within Operations at 9fin, based in London and reporting to the General Counsel. The role exists to do three things:Build scalable process. Design 9fin's procurement policy, intake, RFP, and renewals process from first principles, with the tooling to support it as we grow.Own the function. Take end-to-end ownership of the vendor lifecycle, the vendor register, the renewals calendar, and commercial negotiation across vendor categories.Partner across the business. Be the single point of contact for Finance, Legal, and IT/InfoSec on inbound procurement, and the partner team managers come to when they want to bring in a new tool.This is a build role. You will not inherit a team, a playbook, or a tooling stack. You will design them. We are looking for someone with 5 to 8 years of procurement experience at a technology or fintech business of comparable scale, who is excited to take ownership of a function rather than administer one.What you'll work onBuild scalable processDesign 9fin's procurement policy, intake process, and approval workflow from first principles, with scale in mind from day oneStand up a single front door for procurement requests, replacing the current ad hoc routing across Finance, Legal, and IT teamsDefine and document the RFP process: how we source, how we evaluate alternatives, and how we record the rationaleEvaluate and recommend procurement tooling (for example, Cledara) during your first 90 days, with a view to automating renewals tracking and intakeSet the cadence and content of procurement reporting to the businessOwn the functionOwn the full vendor lifecycle end to end: sourcing, evaluation, contracting, onboarding, renewals, offboardingOwn the central vendor register and spend dashboard as the single source of truth for who we buy from and what we payOwn the renewals calendar and drive renewal conversations early, with the relevant team manager, well ahead of auto-renewal datesLead commercial negotiations across vendor categories, from SaaS tooling to specialist services, and own the commercial outcomeIdentify and resolve duplicate subscriptions and overlapping tools across the businessPartner across the businessAct as the single point of contact for Finance, Legal, and IT/InfoSec on inbound procurement activity, sequencing approvals so each function is engaged at the right pointPartner with Finance to manage and maximise the value of every pound spent, not just allocate it. Own savings, cost avoidance, and value capture as...