Senior Procurement Analyst
Datadog is hiring a Senior Procurement Analyst in New York, United States. It pays $89k-$118k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Level.
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Senior Procurement Analyst to manage vendor onboarding, improve purchasing workflows, and support system automations.
About the Role
We are seeking a Senior Analyst, Procurement Operations to manage vendor onboarding and improve the systems and workflows that support the purchasing lifecycle.
You will guide vendors and internal stakeholders through onboarding requirements, coordinate reviews and approvals, maintain accurate data, and resolve issues that delay requests. You will also help improve Zip and related systems by identifying process gaps, documenting requirements, testing changes, and supporting automation and reporting.
This role is ideal for someone with strong operational judgment, a systems mindset, and the ability to manage a high volume of requests in an evolving environment.
What You’ll Do
- Manage vendor onboarding requests from submission through completion.
- Review submissions for completeness, accuracy, and required documentation.
- Coordinate reviews, approvals, and follow-ups with Privacy, GRC, IT, Internal Audit, Legal, Finance, and other teams.
- Help vendors and employees understand requirements, complete outstanding tasks, and resolve system issues.
- Maintain accurate vendor records, approvals, contracts, documents, and audit trails across Zip and connected systems.
- Monitor request volumes, aging, and cycle times, prioritizing urgent requests and escalating blockers.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for Zip and related procurement systems.
- Translate policies and business needs into clear requirements for workflows, routing, approvals, notifications, reporting, and exceptions.
- Test system changes, document results, report defects, and support releases through training and communications.
- Identify opportunities to improve P2P processes through data, AI, and automation.
What You’ll Bring
- 3+ years of experience in procure-to-pay, vendor management, finance, or purchasing operations.
- Experience managing vendor onboarding or vendor lifecycle processes.
- Hands-on experience with platforms such as Zip, Coupa, Oracle, NetSuite, DocuSign, Brex, Ramp, or similar tools.
- Understanding of how vendor data, purchasing requests, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, approvals, and payments connect.
- Experience maintaining accurate system data and resolving incomplete, inconsistent, or duplicate records.
- Ability to document business requirements, test system changes, and work with technical teams to resolve issues.
- Sound judgment when applying policies, managing exceptions, and escalating risks.
- An analytical mindset and interest in using data, AI, and automation to improve processes.
- Strong communication, organization, and prioritization skills.
- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience is preferred.
#LI-Hybrid
Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is:$89,000—$118,000 USDAbout Datadog:
Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
Equal Opportunity at Datadog:
Datadog is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and other characteristics protected by law. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Here are our Candidate Legal Notices for your reference.
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How we rate this
Senior Procurement Analyst at Datadog rates 25 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.
Little AI. AI is not part of the work.
- ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
- ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
- ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
- ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39
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- Tell me about a project where procurement was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where vendor management was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where process optimization was part of your work. What did you do?
- Tell me about a project where automation was part of your work. What did you do?
- Walk me through how you've used Zip in your day-to-day work.
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- List these exact terms on your resume: Procurement, Vendor Management, Process Optimization, Automation, and Zip. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
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