Director, Procurement

Director, Procurement

We're a high-tech home security company that's passionate about protecting the life you've built and our mission of keeping Every Home Secure. And we've created a culture here that cares just as deeply about the career you're building. Ours is a no ego culture of collaboration and innovation where those seeking their next challenge can find big opportunities and make a huge impact on the lives of all those who we protect. We don't just want you to work here. We want you to grow and thrive here.

We're embracing a hybrid work model that enables our teams to split their time between office and home. Hybrid for us means we expect our teams to come together in our state-of-the-art office on two core days, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday – working together in person and choosing where they work for the remainder of the week. We all benefit from flexibility and get to use the best of both worlds to get our work done.

The Director of Indirect Procurement is a highly visible enterprise-wide leadership role responsible for managing approximately $240 million dollars in SimpliSafe's spend. This high-impact position sits at the intersection of finance, operations, and strategy, with direct impact on the company's bottom line and most important objectives.

This leadership role reports to the CFO and owns end-to-end indirect procurement strategy, from demand intake and sourcing through contract execution and ongoing supplier management, while also leading corporate real estate planning and lease negotiations. Success in this role requires a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution, strong commercial judgment, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders across the organization.

At SimpliSafe, Procurement operates as a strategic enabler, not a transactional function – an agile team focused on high-impact, high-visibility initiatives. The team delivers value through operational excellence, trusted business partnerships, expert category management, and a "make-it-happen" mindset.

The ideal candidate brings a blend of procurement experience and leadership, a high degree of financial acumen, intellectual curiosity, exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills, and the ability to influence change within a dynamic, growth-oriented environment.

Key responsibilities include owning and executing the enterprise indirect procurement strategy across a diverse set of categories, developing strong relationships with internal stakeholders to align procurement strategy with business needs, leading sourcing, negotiations, and contract lifecycle management to drive measurable cost savings, long range planning, and risk reduction, maintaining and enforcing procurement policies, approval workflows, and spend governance, partnering with Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and savings tracking, building and managing preferred supplier programs and performance metrics, identifying opportunities to improve procurement processes, tools, and data visibility, owning corporate real estate strategy, including lease negotiations, renewals, and exits, managing ongoing real estate budgets, CapEx planning and lease obligations, partnering with People and leadership on workplace strategy, hybrid work considerations, and future space needs, managing CapEx buildouts and special projects, serving as a trusted advisor to senior leadership on spend strategy, vendor risk, and real estate decisions, leading, mentoring, and developing team members and influencing without authority across the organization, collaborating closely with Legal on contracts, compliance, and risk mitigation, and driving continuous improvement through data, benchmarking, and best practices.

Qualifications include 8 – 10 years of experience in indirect procurement and strategic sourcing, with at least 3 years in a leadership role leading a team of procurement professionals, a proven track record of delivering cost savings and operational improvements at scale, strong negotiation, contract management, and stakeholder management skills, experience managing complex vendor portfolios and enterprise-level spend, highly analytical with strong financial acumen, comfortable operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment, excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels, experience in SaaS, technology, or high-growth consumer companies, familiarity with procurement tools, CLM systems, and spend analytics platforms (Coupa, Netsuite), experience leading or building procurement functions, bonus: solid understanding of corporate real estate fundamentals (leasing, renewals, facilities, brokers) and insurance, and an MBA or relevant master's degree is a plus.

What values you'll share include customer obsessed – building deep empathy for our customers, putting them at the core of our work, and developing strong, long-term relationships with them, aim high – always challenging ourselves and others to raise the bar, no ego – maintaining a "no job too small" attitude, and an open, inclusive and humble style, one team – taking a highly collaborative approach to achieving success, lift as we climb – investing in developing others and helping others around us succeed, and lean & nimble – working with agility and efficiency to experiment in an often ambiguous environment.

What we offer includes a mission- and values-driven culture and a safe, inclusive environment where you can build, grow and thrive, a comprehensive total rewards package that supports your wellness and provides security for SimpliSafers and their families, free SimpliSafe system and professional monitoring for your home, employee resource groups (ERGs) that bring people together, give opportunities to network, mentor and develop, and advocate for change, and the target annual base pay range for this role is $165,200 to $220,300.