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Salary: USD 124,000 - 155,000 / annual
Xaira Therapeutics is an innovative biotech startup leveraging AI to transform drug discovery and development. The company develops generative AI models to design protein and antibody therapeutics and foundation models for biology and disease. Xaira is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, and London.
You will own end-to-end procurement operations as a builder who treats procurement as a commercial engine and proving ground for AI-enabled operations. Your stakeholders—scientists, engineers, and business partners—are your customers, and their success is your scoreboard.
Operations Leadership: Own P2P process, sourcing, and technology enablement across all goods and services. Drive adoption of a contract-first CLM framework while reducing cycle times. Run procurement as a service business with stakeholder experience as a core focus. Support Accounting with PO hygiene, invoice-match resolution, accruals, vendor master data, and close activities.
AI Enablement: Pilot and scale AI across the procurement lifecycle—contract analysis, spend classification, supplier intelligence, negotiation prep, and 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 through competitive tension, cancellation frameworks, and leading engagement terms. Build supplier relationships that scale through 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 emphasis on 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 emerging solutions
- Practical AI fluency applied to real workflows—ability to point to processes you've automated
- Strong analytics capabilities: spend analysis, dashboarding, supplier ecosystems, advanced metrics
- Stakeholder obsession—building trust through accountability and delivery to make Procurement an invaluable business partnership
- Concise, executive-ready communication
- Entrepreneurial mindset: identify gaps, propose fixes, and ship solutions
