Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Manager

Job description

Position: Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Manager Location: South San Francisco: Type: Full-time: Desired start date: ASAP: The Opportunity: Ohalo™ is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Strategic Sourcing & Procurement Manager to manage a wide range of vendor contracts, procurement processes, and expense controls. This role is crucial in ensuring that our procurement activities, including those for laboratory, greenhouse, automation, and production equipment, and various services, are efficient, cost-effective, and aligned with our operational and financial goals. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in negotiating diverse contracts, optimizing procurement strategies, technology tools and AI, and managing procure-to-pay & purchase order (PO) processes as well as contributing to accurate financial reporting and analysis. This role will require partnership with teams across the company, including research, engineering, finance, operations, and facilities, to understand their needs, develop project plans, and ensure that procurement supports business goals and operating plans. Ohalo has developed a proprietary plant breeding technology, Boosted Breeding™, which pr...