Procurement Manager

Bloomreach is building the world’s premier agentic platform for personalization .We’re revolutionizing how businesses connect with their customers, building and deploying AI agents to personalize the entire customer journey. We're taking autonomous search mainstream, making product discovery more intuitive and conversational for customers, and more profitable for businesses. We’re making conversational shopping a reality, connecting every shopper with tailored guidance and product expertise — available on demand, at every touchpoint in their journey. We're designing the future of autonomous marketing , taking the work out of workflows, and reclaiming the creative, strategic, and customer-first work marketers were always meant to do. And we're building all of that on the intelligence of a single AI engine — Loomi AI — so that personalization isn't only autonomous…it's also consistent.From retail to financial services, hospitality to gaming, businesses use Bloomreach to drive higher growth and lasting loyalty. We power personalization for more than 1,400 global brands, including American Eagle, Sonepar, and Pandora. Our Global Procurement team aims to provide a best-in-class experience that ensures Bloomreachers get exactly what they need, when they need it, under the best possible terms. If you have a passion for high-stakes negotiation and are in the business of using agentic AI and automation to "delete" manual work, join Bloomreach as a Strategic Sourcing Systems Manager. In this role, you will leverage a cutting-edge stack that includes ZIP, Zapier, and LLMs to turn procurement into a true business enabler. You will also help manage and maintain our suite of procurement tools, ensuring our global "follow-the-sun" operation runs flawlessly from Europe. What challenge awaits you? The Procurement team is looking for an innovation-first manager to help us transition from excellent turnaround times to "best-in-class." You will adopt the challenge of scaling our global intake and sourcing capabilities by automating away friction. You will build, manage, and optimize reporting and workflows that balance rapid automation with smart risk management. You will then use these tools to dig deep into spend data, ensuring we are always operating at the forefront of procurement technology. You can work in one of our Central Europe offices (Bratislava, Brno, Prague) or from home in Central and Eastern Europe on a full-time basis. Your job will be to: a. Deliver a Seamless Competitive Procurement Experience Support the global intake lifecycle, ensuring Bloomreachers enjoy a frictionless experience that gets them what they need, exactly when they need it. Drive operational velocity by maintaining best-in-class Turnaround Times (TAT), providing the organization with a competitive edge through rapid resource deployment. Act as the European anchor for our "follow-the-sun" support model, ensuring proactive partnership and seamless global coverage alongside our US-based team. Lead high-impact negotiations for global contracts, securing terms that mitigate risk while actively empowering our teams to move faster. b. Architect Sourcing Automation Workflows Manage and maintain our core suite of tools, including ZIP, Vendr, Spendhound, and DocuSign. Utilize Zapier, N8N, and Agentic AI solutions to automate manual steps in the procurement lifecycle. Experiment with and implement ambitious LLM (Claude, Gemini) use cases to improve document processing and stakeholder communication. c. Partner with the Business on Risk Strategic Insights Cultivate deep partnerships across the organization to gain a thorough understanding of what our teams do and the strategic "why" behind their requirements, enabling us to provide better-aligned and more impactful support. Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define and calibrate the company's risk appetite for various spend categories to match business velocity. Design and implement ... (truncated, view full listing at source)