Director of Procurement
Chainalysis is seeking a finance-minded procurement leader to drive disciplined spend management, vendor rationalization, and strategic buying across the company. This role owns the end-to-end procurement strategy, with a strong mandate to optimize costs, consolidate software and vendors, and ensure purchasing decisions align with financial plans and business priorities.
This is a highly visible role suited for someone who thrives in a high-growth environment and is motivated by delivering measurable savings, improving unit economics, and supporting sustainable scale.
What You’ll Do
- Partner closely with Finance to manage vendor spend in line with budgets, forecasts, and company-wide financial objectives, driving cost savings and cost avoidance through disciplined renewals, pricing benchmarks, demand management, and structured sourcing strategies.
- Own the vendor portfolio with a mandate to rationalize and consolidate software and technology vendors, reducing redundancy, improving utilization, and lowering total cost of ownership.
- Lead high-impact negotiations across key spend categories, particularly software and technology, running competitive RFx processes and negotiating pricing, contract structures, and commercial terms that deliver measurable financial outcomes.
- Act as a strategic business partner by providing financial analysis, market intelligence, and pricing benchmarks to guide vendor selection and spending decisions early in the purchasing lifecycle.
- Own and automate the end-to-end procure-to-pay process, including intake, vendor onboarding, spend review, approvals, and purchasing, while enforcing procurement policy and a strict “no purchase order, no pay” standard.
- Identify and implement workflow automation and AI-enabled solutions to improve efficiency, spend visibility, compliance, and scalability of procurement operations.
- Ensure procurement processes support strong financial controls, audit readiness, and policy complia...