Procurement Manager

About Us

Sinch is a global leader in the growing market for Communication Platforms as a Service (CPaaS) and mobile customer engagement. We are specialists in allowing businesses to reach everyone on the planet, in seconds or less, through mobile messaging, email, voice, and video.

With presence in more than 50 countries, whether you know us or not, you’ve definitely used our tech. We reach every phone on earth, with over 147 billion conversations every year.

Role and Responsibilities:

As a Procurement Manager, you will play a crucial role in managing supplier relationships, negotiating contracts, and ensuring the procurement processes align with our strategic objectives. Your expertise will be instrumental in driving cost efficiencies and enhancing our procurement capabilities across the organization.

You will be responsible for:-

  • Leading communication and maintaining relationships with key suppliers 
    and bilateral partners for our Messaging Business Unit.
  • Researching, vetting and onboarding new suppliers 
    for Sinch’s Messaging Business Unit. 
  • Conducting market research to identify trends and new suppliers
  • Build and execute agreements with Messaging partners to drive 
    business growth. Introduce focus on bilateral and barter business 
    deals.
  • Evaluate supplier performance and implement improvements to enhance service and cost-effectiveness
  • Own Procurement annual targets and provide timely reports to 
    track OKRs.
  • Work closely with Sales & Pricing team in order to meet customers’
    requirements.
  • Source suppliers and pricing needed to win new business or retain 
    existing business.
  • Coordinate response for incoming procurement requests from 
    Sales / Routing Teams.
  • Maintain A2P SMS Knowledge base, top competitor analysis that 
    can be used by various internal teams.
  • Drive improved revenue for Strategic customers by identifying 
    opportunities where Sinch needs better Cost and/or Quality.

 Minimum Requirements / Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Engineering, Supply Chain Management or related field.
  • 3+ years experience in the messaging A2P / P2P industry.
  • Experience in the EMEA / Latam market will be a plus
  • Strong negotiation and communication skills.
  • Excellent analytical skills and ability to make data-driven decisions.
  • Proficiency in English is a must (Spanish and Portuguese is a plus).

 

Our Hiring Process:

We are committed to ensuring a recruitment process that is fair, objective, consistent, and inclusive. Our approach includes structured, competency-based interviews designed to evaluate your skills, experience, and qualifications relevant to the role. At times, we may include a data-driven assessment to enhance our hiring success and identify candidates likely to excel. 

We believe in a two-way process and encourage you to ask questions throughout the journey. If this role isn't what you're looking for, please explore the other opportunities listed on our career page: . No matter who you are, we hope you find an exciting path forward - hopefully with us! 

 

 

 

 

 

Sinch brings businesses and people together through tools enabling personal engagement. We partner with leading global enterprises and local startups, enriching their engagement with customers through our communications platform.If you get us talking about the old days we’ll tell you what it was like to be the early pioneers of cloud communications. But lately, what we’re buzzing about is the fact that we’re trusted to carry 25 billion API calls a year, and we get excited about the value that brings to so many people’s every day lives.

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