Procurement Manager at Xaira Therapeutics in South San Francisco, California, United States

Job description

• Xaira is seeking a Procurement Manager at the leading edge of the function — a builder who treats procurement as a commercial engine and a proving ground for AI-enabled operations. You're obsessed with stakeholders: scientists, engineers, and business partners are your customers, and their success is your scoreboard. You'll inherit a strong foundation but you have an obsession to drive the function beyond the empirical high-bar.
• Every dollar and every week Procurement saves is capacity redirected toward discovering new medicines. If you want to build the most advanced Procurement function in biotech, this is the seat.

Responsibilities

• Operations Leadership
• Own end-to-end procurement operations: P2P process, sourcing, and technology enablement across all goods and services
• Drive adoption of our contract-first CLM framework while reducing cycle times
• Run procurement as a service business, with stakeholder experience as a core focus
• Support Accounting: PO hygiene, invoice-match resolution, accruals, vendor master data and close activities
• AI Enablement
• Pilot and scale AI across the lifecycle: contract analysis, spend classification, supplier intelligence, negotiation prep, workflow automation
• Make Xaira's procurement a showcase for AI-augmented operations — measured in cycle time, coverage, and cost
• Translate the emerging procure-tech landscape into practical and adopted tooling
• Supplier Engagement & Negotiations
• Lead sourcing events and negotiations across core life-sciences suppliers
• Structure agreements that protect Xaira's flexibility: competitive tension, cancellation frameworks and leading engagement terms
• Build supplier relationships that scale: performance management, risk monitoring and strategic partnerships
• Procure-Tech, Data & Analytics
• Drive build-vs-buy decisions across the stack (P2P, CLM, sourcing, cost savings/avoidance) with an emphasis toward lean, high-leverage solutions
• Build spend analytics that turn data into decisions: category insights, supplier concentration, budget-to-actual
• Own data integrity across procurement and P2P systems

Requirements

• 5+ years in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply chain; biotech, pharma, or high-growth tech preferred
• Proven negotiation results on complex service agreements (CRO, services, and technology)
• Hands-on with modern procurement tools (Ironclad, Coupa, NetSuite, Ramp) and curiosity about what replaces them
• Practical AI fluency applied to real workflows — you can point to processes you've automated
• Strong analytics: spend analysis, dashboarding, supplier ecosystems, advanced metrics and analytics giving Xaira leverage as a competitive advantage among Xaira’s peer group
• Stakeholder obsession - Building trust through accountability and delivery making Procurement an invaluable business partnership
• Concise, executive-ready communication
• Entrepreneurial: you find the gap, propose the fix, and ship it

Skills

Required

• Procurement
• Strategic sourcing
• Supply chain
• Negotiation
• Contract analysis
• Spend classification
• Supplier intelligence
• Workflow automation
• Spend analysis
• Dashboarding
• Supplier ecosystems
• Advanced metrics and analytics

Benefits

• We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, seeking to provide an open, flexible, and friendly work environment to empower employees and provide them with a platform to develop their long-term careers. A Summary of Benefits is available for all applicants. We offer a competitive package that includes base salary, bonus, and equity. The base pay range for this position is expected to be $124,000 - $155,000 annually; however, the base pay offered may vary depending on the market, job-related knowledge, skills and capabilities, and experience.