Cloud Procurement Strategist

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Meraki is seeking a Cloud Procurement Strategist for the Cloud Procurement & Engineering Operations teams. You would be working within Meraki’s Datacenter & Public Cloud Operations team, reporting up to the Global Lead of Cloud Procurement & Operations. You would also work closely with the Engineering Operations Manager.

At Meraki, we are passionate about building real products that our customers love! We believe in encouraging a positive environment by hiring, mentoring, and empowering inquisitive, effective, low ego people and providing equal opportunities for all employees to thrive. With the support of management, we constantly look for ways to improve organizationally. We maintain a positive relationship with Cisco that gives us the stability and resources of a larger company without sacrificing our startup atmosphere. We are confident you will love it here!

You are an ideal candidate if you:

1. Have the ability to handle the agreements with Meraki’s existing 30+ SaaS licensing & Infrastructure vendors.
2. This role will be solely responsible in assisting Software Engineering Managers across Meraki’s Chief Technical Officer’s organization on the addition of new vendors and negotiating software licensing agreements.
3. The objective is to improve Meraki’s purchasing power and improve the speed of procurement once an Engineering Manager has a procurement requirement.
4. As a result you would need to work closely with the Engineering Managers, in a hybrid environment, both working from home and Meraki’s San Francisco office.
5. Have 0-2 years of Software licensing procurement and vendor management experience; however, we are accepting applications from candidates that meet the requirements without the years of experience.

Example of responsibilities:

1. Negotiate new agreements on behalf of Meraki Software Engineering Manager requests for both Meraki's Software Operating Expenses & Cost of Goods Sold.
2. Prepare the financial analysis reporting and accruals-based reporting to improve our financial visibility on cloud spend plus assist in our compliance based activity across Meraki procurement.
3. Maintain Meraki’s speed of procurement for software and infrastructure contracts.
4. Responsible in maintaining our Vendor, Legal and Financial compliance working closely with each respective team at Meraki.
5. Use software pricing review tooling provided by Meraki to negotiate fair prices in accord to precise scope of works. The goal is to achieve savings through competitive tenders to meet Meraki’s specific technical needs.
6. Seek opportunity to optimize costs where necessary and identify cost minimization while not impacting Meraki’s speed of technical development.

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