Company Description

Block is one company built from many blocks, all united by the same purpose of economic empowerment. The blocks that form our foundational teams — People, Finance, Counsel, Hardware, Information Security, Platform Infrastructure Engineering, and more — provide support and guidance at the corporate level. They work across business groups and around the globe, spanning time zones and disciplines to develop inclusive People policies, forecast finances, give legal counsel, safeguard systems, nurture new initiatives, and more. Every challenge creates possibilities, and we need different perspectives to see them all. Bring yours to Block.

Job Description

The role will be responsible for proactively managing, developing, and executing category and vendor strategies for the EMEA region. In addition to global sourcing, you will be responsible for managing S2P logistics for the EMEA region. You should have strong communication and analytical skills and a proven ability to manage highly complex contracts and negotiations. You will model teamwork and have at least 7 years of global team collaboration skills. The ability to build relationships with business partners across the organisation to ensure understanding of goals and priorities is a core requirement in this role. You must demonstrate collaboration internally and externally, have a passionate focus on success, and commitment to continuous improvement. You will report to the Global Procurement Lead.

You Will:

• Support the Block EMEA region efforts through:

  • Heavy focus on sourcing (via best class sourcing methodologies)

  • Contract negotiation

  • Risk mitigation strategy

  • Ongoing management and performance of vendor relationships

  • Collaborate with US Global Sourcing team to ensure seamless operations for both Sourcing and Purchasing

  • Ensure smooth performance of daily operations, allowing for Stakeholders to concentrate on more progressive activities

• Oversee complex, Block-wide supplier relations, developing solutions to new problems and using your foresight to anticipate future trends and issues

• Establish partnerships with important business partners aimed at identifying, understanding and fulfilling their requirements

• Lead a network of other authorities, building cross-functional agreement

• Develop selection/negotiation criteria, establish purchasing goals, coordinate resources, and provide category leadership following long-term buying goals

• Collaborate with business partners to lead contract negotiation with suppliers; develop negotiation approaches, fallback positions and acceptable terms and conditions through contract completion and identify important benchmarks to measure contractual arrangements

• Identify and realise cost-saving and cost-reduction opportunities and build a culture of long-term savings on procurement costs without compromising supply assurance or quality

• Assist to establish vendor life-cycle strategy to oversee planning, sourcing and selection of new vendors, manage data for vendor performance and manage vendor off-boarding and transition

• Support new technologies to optimise performance and transparency to EMEA business partners

• Support other ad hoc projects

Qualifications

You Have:

• Minimum of 7 years of strategic procurement; in a high-growth, global technology environment preferred

• At least 5 years in a global Sourcing position

• Ability to project manage, demonstrate project status, key actions, risks and opportunities

• Ability to navigate in unstructured environments while garnering trust with internal customers.

• Experience proactively resolving performance issues with assigned suppliers to ensure resolution

• Experience leveraging technology and financial systems to extract and analyse data

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university preferably in Procurement, Business Administration, Finance, Technology or related field.

• MBA/advanced technical degree is preferred

Additional Information

We’re working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, based solely on the core competencies required of the role at hand, and without regard to any legally protected class.

We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we’re doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page.

We’ve noticed a rise in recruiting impersonations across the industry, where individuals are sending fake job offer emails. Contact from any of our recruiters or employees will always come from an email address ending with @block.xyz, @squareup.com, @tidal.com, or @afterpay.com, @clearpay.co.uk.

Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.