Procurement Analyst

About Us:

Datadog is the monitoring and security platform for cloud applications. Our SaaS product is used by organizations of all sizes across a wide range of industries to enable digital transformation, cloud migration, and infrastructure monitoring of our customers’ entire technology stack, allowing for seamless collaboration and problem-solving among Dev, Ops and Security teams globally. Given the resilience of cloud technologies and importance placed today in digital operations and agility, Datadog continues to innovate and is well positioned for the long term. 

The Opportunity: 

• Be part of a growing Procurement team at a high growth organization. 
• Act as one of the faces of Procurement by providing assistance to internal and external stakeholders
• Make an impact by ensuring our Procurement system processes are operating at optimal levels
• Datadog's Finance team collaborates with teams across the organization, providing commercial, operational and analytical support to ensure that Datadog's business continues to grow as rapidly and efficiently as possible.

You Will: 

• Oversee, manage expectations and provide support with various types of Procurement requests and activities such as vendor onboarding and due diligence, purchase requisitions and contract requests in our financial systems
• Review and analyze third party vendor onboarding packages to ensure completion and route through appropriate internal workflows
• Handle multiple aspects of the Procurement process such as routing contracts for signature, assisting third party vendors and entering in purchase orders
• Communicate deficiencies and results pertaining to the vendor due diligence process to third party vendors and internal customers.
• Oversee the administrative portions of Procurement process which include: 
• ensuring adherence to internal Service-level agreements (SLAs)
• communicating estimated turnaround times to requestors and vendors
• solving for bottlenecks in the process through communication
• Understand business objectives so as to generate project information, action items, schedule, and deliverables for the team.
• Assist team in ad-hoc procurement and sourcing projects as needed. 
• Consistently field inquiries from internal staff and vendors and subsequently train those employees on procurement policies and best practices.
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You Are: 

• 1-2 years experience in a similar role or capacity (i.e. project management, systems admin or support, business analyst, etc.)
• Must have excellent writing and communication skills
• Must have the ability to communicate effectively with all levels within the organization
• Attention to detail is a must

Bonus Points: 

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Fluent in French is a plus
• Experience with Procurement Systems recommended
• Experience with Coupa a plus
• Experience building and implementing processes preferred

Why You Should Apply: 

•  Generous and competitive global and US benefits
•  New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
•  Continuous career development and pathing opportunities 
•  Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
•  Best in breed onboarding
•  Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
•  Friendly and inclusive workplace culture

Equal Opportunity at Datadog:

Datadog is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and 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 more. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

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