Senior Procurement Analyst

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Job Summary: As a Procurement Analyst, you will support the procurement function by leading negotiations, ensuring compliance with procurement processes, and optimizing costs and category performance. Key Highlights: 1. Lead procurement negotiations for services, software, and hardware. 2. Experience in software category management. 3. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with internal customers. São Paulo, SP Senior About the Role: The Procurement Analyst will provide direct support to the procurement leadership team, contributing to both strategic and operational workflows. Responsibilities include leading negotiations, ensuring execution of procurement processes, maintaining continuous alignment with the global team, and guaranteeing that software, service, and occasional hardware procurements are conducted efficiently, compliantly, and with direct impact on cost optimization and category performance. Responsibilities: ✔ Align with the corporate team on category strategy definition and reporting of business unit activities. ✔ Deliver weekly software negotiation reports to the global team using verbal and written English communication. ✔ Receive approved scopes and negotiate commercial terms, pricing, and delivery timelines with suppliers. ✔ Issue and manage purchase orders in Oracle within established deadlines. ✔ Record and monitor savings metrics in Ariba. ✔ Collaborate with the Legal Department to validate service contracts and product procurement agreements. ✔ Lead procurement negotiations for services—with primary focus on software—and conduct ad-hoc hardware purchases. ✔ Utilize ERP tools (Oracle) and procurement management systems (Ariba), ensuring adherence to internal policies. Requirements: ✔ Experience in software category management. ✔ Ability to analyze spend data and propose strategic solutions for the category. ✔ Experience negotiating long-term contracts with suppliers. ✔ Excellent communication and relationship-building skills with internal customers. ✔ Strong organizational skills to manage high-volume workloads and prioritize effectively. ✔ Experience with ERPs (Oracle experience preferred) and procurement management systems (Ariba experience preferred). ✔ Advanced English proficiency for verbal and written communication. ✔ Experience negotiating contracts and collaborating with Legal teams. Preferred Qualifications: ➕ Experience with M&A processes. ➕ In-depth knowledge of corporate software acquisition and management. Work Model: Specify the preferred model (remote, hybrid, or on-site) and location. What You’ll Find at Maitha: Individual development experience focused on soft skills, with guidance throughout your journey; Well-being management supported by metrics and indicators tracking satisfaction progress; Training sessions, workshops, and meetups to enhance both soft and hard skills; Rewards program featuring a points-based system and incentives; TotalPass offering multiple plan options and over 250 modalities—including weight training, cross-training, yoga, dance, and much more; And much more!