Procurement Lead

You. Better. With Alan. Alan is building a vertically integrated health partner that unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one seamless system. Our vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all. Our mission: Help people live in good health to 100 while helping employers feel proud, turning health benefits from a cost centre into their most valuable investment. By connecting all aspects of care (private, public, and direct to consumer) we create the most member-centric healthcare experience, reducing claims costs while generating new monetization opportunities. We partner with tens of thousands of companies across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦, serving over a million members. How we work: our Leadership Principles Mission is the Boss — We think long-term and are methodical optimists who take risks, seeking our mission's success above all else. Distributed Ownership — Accountable enlightened despots: everyone owns their decisions and results. Radical Transparency — All information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously. Always Growing — Direct, positive, and caring feedback, combined with self-growth ownership. 📈 Finance community at Alan Finance & Strategy exists to enable better decisions, faster, at every level of the company, in a regulated, diverse and ever changing business. We succeed when ambitious goals become credible plans, when strategic bets are grounded in financial reality, and when the entire company (not just Finance!) speaks the language of performance. We set the right ambition, we monitor whether we're getting there, and we raise our hand when something needs to change. We are not record-keepers. We are builders, partners, and challengers. We are looking for people who want to build, support decision making processes and challenge the status quo. The core responsibilities of the Finance & Strategy community are: Strategy & Planning: steers Alan's financial performance through business planning, financial and operational monitoring, investor relations, financing and M&A Financial Reporting: is the steward of Alan's financial truth, ensuring that we produce accurate, timely financial data. It owns the reporting to all key stakeholders (board, leadership team, tax authorities, and regulators like the ACPR) and ensures that financial data is the single, uncontested source of truth for the company's performance. Finance Data and Operations: Build and own the core finance data and tooling infrastructure (models, pipelines, and concepts that connect business operations to financial reality). This is where Finance meets product thinking Functional poles with end-to-end ownership of their domain: Treasury, Procurement 🎯 Your mission As Procurement Lead within the Finance community, your mission is to elevate Alan’s procurement setup into a high-impact, business-enabling capability. You will bring more structure, visibility and commercial rigor to how we manage suppliers, while keeping our approach pragmatic and adapted to a fast-moving environment. Your role will be to focus procurement effort where it creates the most value, strengthen our supplier relationships, and support teams across Alan make better purchasing decisions. More specifically, you will: Strengthen and scale Alan’s procurement setup , by improving the processes, governance, and templates that support better supplier management and purchasing decisions across the company Work with business owners on the commercial management of a defined portfolio of strategic suppliers , especially key software providers Lead high-impact negotiations , on selected high-value topics where procurement expertise can materially improve outcomes Enable Alaners to make better vendor decisions , by providing coaching, support, and clear documentation on negotiation approach and purchasing best practices Build visibility on spend and vendor benchmarks , to help teams better understand pricing and make more informed decisions Proactively engage teams on critical renewals , to ensure important supplier decisions are anticipated early and managed before they become urgent Dive deep when needed into contracts, pricing structures, supplier economics, consumption patterns and category dynamics to unlock better outcomes This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building maturity in an evolving environment, knows how to combine influence with execution, and can distinguish between where procurement needs stronger structure and where simplicity should win. ⚙️ Qualifications ⚙️ Must have: 5+ years procurement experience, including in scale-up/fast-growth environments (tech, SaaS, insurance or another operationally complex environment) Excellent written and verbal communication in English and French Proven track record structuring and scaling procurement in evolving setups Strong negotiation skills with complex commercial agreements, especially SaaS/IT contracts Ability to ba