Procurement Specialist

About us

At Udemy, we’re on a mission to transform lives through learning. Through our intelligent skills platform and a global community of instructors, we’ve helped nearly 80 million learners and more than 17,000 organizations achieve their goals. Come join us in ensuring everyone, everywhere has access to the skills they need to unlock their potential and create possibilities for themselves and others. Learn more about us on our company page.

Where we work

Udemy is a global company headquartered in San Francisco, with additional U.S. offices in Denver and Austin, and international hubs in Australia, India, Ireland, Mexico, and Türkiye. This is an in-office position, requiring three days a week in the office (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday) and flexibility on Mondays and Fridays.

About your skills 

• Prioritization: You operate well in an environment where you receive little instruction on day-to-day work, and general instructions on new assignments. You prioritize well and identify work based on importance and urgency, and articulate a plan to achieve results.

• Interpersonal: You are able to achieve results in stressful situations and maintain good relationships with your customers and suppliers through your professionalism and high integrity  

• Decision Making: You use critical thinking to follow a defined decision making process and consider multiple perspectives. Upon making a decision, you are clear in your communication and ensure everyone is aligned in execution.

• Coaching: You have a strong desire to receive and provide coaching that allows you to actively listen and ask the kind of questions that will help you diagnose and effectively address issues, learn from mistakes and improve. 

About this role

The Procurement Specialist plays a key role in executing daily procurement activities, sourcing goods and services, and contributing to strategic procurement initiatives. You will collaborate closely with your manager, colleagues, and cross-functional stakeholders to meet Udemy objectives in the supply chain. You will manage day-to-day tasks with minimal supervision, demonstrate initiative in prioritizing activities based on importance and urgency, and effectively handle complex, sometimes ambiguous projects.

What you’ll be doing 

• Execute procurement processes effectively, making informed decisions with input from management and stakeholders.

• Independently manage day-to-day purchasing tasks with minimal supervision, applying intermediate procurement expertise.

• Tackle complex, diverse, and occasionally ambiguous projects, demonstrating strong analytical skills and sound judgment.

• Recommend and implement process improvements, providing thoughtful suggestions to enhance procurement efficiency and effectiveness.

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to clearly identify objectives and procurement requirements; work across functions to achieve desired outcomes.

• Prioritize tasks and responsibilities according to their importance, urgency, and overall organizational impact, clearly articulating your approach and action plan.

• Assume project leadership roles within your own team, beginning to set direction and coordinate activities effectively.

• Maintain strong internal relationships and expand your network externally, fostering collaboration and gaining insights beneficial to procurement goals.

What you’ll have 

• 5+ years of relevant procurement experience, showing a growing ability to manage responsibilities independently.

• Foundational and practiced knowledge of procurement principles, concepts, processes, and best practices.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Strong communication, negotiation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across internal teams and external networks.

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize effectively, manage multiple tasks simultaneously, and articulate clear and frequent updates cross functionally.

• Experience working in a Audited SOX environment is a plus

• A foundational knowledge of finance and budgets in an accrual based company is a plus

We understand that not everyone will match each of the above qualifications. However, we also realize that everyone has unique experiences that can add value to our company. Even if you think your background might not perfectly align, we'd love to hear from you!

Life at Udemy 

We aspire to be as vibrant and dynamic as the communities we serve, as inquisitive as those who use our platform, and as revolutionary as the future we strive to open for everyone. Here are some of the things we love about life at Udemy:

• We’re invested in creating an inclusive environment that welcomes a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. From creating employee resource groups, ensuring we’re a Fair Pay Workplace, and building a flexible work culture, our belonging, equity, diversity, and inclusion (BEDI) initiatives always put our people first. We want you to be able to bring your authentic self to work because when we all do, we’re better for it.

• Learning is what we do – inside and out. Our Learning & Development team is second to none, helping ensure your journey is one of continuous progression. You’ll also have unlimited access to Udemy courses, monthly UDays (meeting-free professional development days), and a generous annual professional development stipend.

• Our reason to exist is to revolutionize learning – that calls for taking risks and learning from failures. Whether it’s our hackathons (a company-wide effort to envision new possibilities for our product) or sharing our prototypes, we see experimentation as a crucial step on the path to success.

• We’re committed to creating world-class employee experiences and are proud of the recognition of this by Great Place to Work. 

Of course, the best thing about being part of Udemy is knowing your work makes a difference for people and organizations around the world. You’ve got the skills; why not use them to help others develop theirs?

At Udemy, we value diversity and inclusion and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital or family status, veteran status, medical condition, or disability. 

Our Benefits Start with U

Our benefits start with you and were built to provide you and your family with the protection and care you need, making it easy to access the right coverage when you need it most. Benefits vary by region, and we encourage applicants to review our US Benefits,  Ireland Benefits & Turkiye Benefits pages to get an understanding of some of the benefits we offer. For details on region-specific benefits, please refer to the information provided during the hiring process. 

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