Global Purchasing Specialist

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About us

We are Insider, a B2B SaaS company that drives growth for its clients around the world. How are we achieving this? We are the #1 AI-native platform for Customer Experience and Marketing—offers marketers a single platform to deliver unique experiences per person, drive profitable growth, and unleash peak productivity and efficiency. Our platform connects data across channels, predicts future behavior with AI, and individualizes experiences from a single platform. We’ve unlocked unicorn status following our Series D round We are backed by top-notch investors, including Sequoia Capital, QIA, Riverwood, and Endeavor Catalyst, and trusted by 1200+ brands from high-growth startups to the most prestigious Fortune 500 companies such as Samsung, Coca Cola, Nike, L’Oreal, Singapore Airlines, Virgin, Nestle, Nissan, Lenovo, Puma, IKEA, Allianz, Dominos, Avon, CNN, and the list goes on.
Having recently unlocked unicorn status, Insider was congratulated for becoming one of the only woman-founded, women-led B2B SaaS unicorns in the world, to achieve $200M USD in CARR (Committed Annual Recurring Revenue). Insider was named a leader in the The Forrester Wave for Cross-Channel Campaign Management 2021, and Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Omnichannel Marketing Platforms for B2C Enterprises 2023 Assessment. The company has been recognized in The Top 1% of all software companies worldwide in G2’s 2024 Software Awards, and named in The Top 10 Best Software Products with the most #1 rankings alongside other software legends like Google, Zoom, and Monday.com. According to G2’s Spring’24 reports. Insider is also the #1 G2 Leader in 6+ categories, including Customer Data Platforms (CDP), Personalization Engines, Personalization Software, Mobile Marketing, Customer Journey Analytics, and eCommerce Personalization.

When our team founded Insider, they not only sought to create a product company, but to build the most socially progressive technology community in the world. Through our corporate social responsibility initiatives like 100projects shecodes, sheleads and shemarkables, our community has committed to scaling its impact into our communities across 27+ countries, spearheading transformative projects in areas such as health, education, farming, animal rights, and increasing the proportional representation of women in STEM careers. 

Behind all these achievements, there is an exceptionally talented and passionate team across 27+ countries that moves fast and agile, creates cutting-edge products, and focuses on making an impact. If you want to join us on this journey, just keep reading.

We are now looking for a dynamic, organized, enthusiastic, self-starter to join our team. The person who takes this position will be positioned in Istanbul office.

As the Global Purchasing Specialist in Insider day in and day out you will;

  • Work with the procurement team.
  • Identify global vendors and suppliers for unique equipment purchases and manage and maintain excellent vendor relations.
  • Support the procurement function includes preparing specifications, solicitation documents, managing evaluations, drafting requests for consent for the contracting officer and overseeing vendor selection processes.
  • Maintain vendor relationships, contacts, and pre-qualifications lists.
  • Maintain procurement files in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.
  • Provide procurement procedures and policy guidance and interpretation.
  • Coach, mentor and train stakeholders on procurement policies and procedures.
  • Provide guidance and performance input to Contracts, Procurement and Grants managers in the regions.
  • Work with the operations department to prepare property disposition requests.
  • Be responsible for the rental periods and contract processes of the countries where real estate is leased.

    • We want you to join us while we are taking a step into the future if you have:

  • Graduate with BA in a related job or related field.
  • 3+ years of experience in purchasing, preferably with government-funded contracts.
  • Powerful working knowledge of NetSuite and G-sheet.
  • Ability to work in a multicultural environment,
  • Ability to manage ambiguity, while fostering an example of professionalism and leadership,
  • A high level of accuracy and attention to detail, strong follow-up on multi-tasks, communication skills, analytical and reporting skills,
  • Confident, self-motivated flexible, and proactive approach.
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English.

    • While exporting our technology to the world, we offer you:

  • a chance to work in an international, diverse, and inclusive environment,
  • “Tech Talks” with famous and groundbreaking people from the software world, 
  • to be part of an industry that’s shaping the future of customer experiences. Don't believe us? Just ask Google,
  • access and opportunity to gain a limitless network all over the globe
  • access to many hard and soft skills pieces of training to help you improve and challenge yourself,
  • access to 16,000+ online courses taught by real-world professionals on the LinkedIn Learning platform to satisfy your hunger for knowledge,
  • space to share your skills through training sessions and workshops if you wish. Sharing is caring!
  • inclusive Private Health Insurance,
  • food expenses covered on a monthly basis,
  • fun with the occasional team activities!
  • No Dress Code!
    • We provide equal opportunity in a zero-discrimination workplace and not just welcome but also embrace everyone without regard to sex, race, color, nationality, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, citizenship, or marital status.

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