Procurement Manager

About the Company

Urban Company is a tech-enabled home services marketplace. Customers use our platform

to book services such as beauty treatments, haircuts, massage therapy, cleaning, plumbing,

carpentry, appliance repair, and painting — delivered conveniently at home.

Our promise is high-quality, standardized, and reliable service. To deliver this, we enable

our service partners with training, products, tools, financing, and strong brand support.

The Native RO category is a specialized vertical focused on delivering premium water

purifiers. With high-quality parts, technical expertise, and a customer-first approach, Native

RO ensures seamless, reliable, and safe water purifier services.

About the Role

We are seeking a Senior Manager – Procurement to strengthen our supplier ecosystem and

ensure a reliable supply of high-quality components for the Native RO category.

This role will focus on vendor identification, development, and management to ensure

suppliers meet Urban Company's standards on quality, reliability, and cost efficiency. This

role will play a pivotal part in supplier onboarding, compliance, and capability building.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Identify, evaluate, and onboard new vendors aligned with business needs.

• Support vendor development initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement in supplier

quality, delivery, and compliance.

• Build strong partnerships with suppliers through regular reviews, capability

assessments, and feedback mechanisms.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (quality, supply chain, operations, product) to

ensure vendor alignment with business requirements.

• Drive supplier audits and assessments to monitor performance on quality, cost, and

delivery.

• Ensure suppliers adhere to compliance standards, certifications, and sustainability

guidelines.

• Track vendor performance through metrics and provide insights to enable better

supplier selection and retention.

• Assist in demand and supply planning to ensure optimal inventory levels and continuity

of supply.

• Support digitization initiatives in vendor management processes.

• Highlight risks in supply continuity and escalate to leadership with mitigation

recommendations.

What We're Looking For

• Experience in procurement/vendor development, preferably in electronics, consumer

durables, automotive, or allied industries.

• Hands-on experience in developing and managing suppliers of metal, plastic, and tooling

components.

• Strong understanding of vendor capability assessments, audits, and quality systems.

• Experience with ERP tools for procurement/vendor management.

• Analytical skills to evaluate supplier performance metrics.

• Ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.

• Strong organizational and execution skills with attention to detail.

• Exposure to capital equipment or component sourcing (preferred).

What You Can Expect

• A career with ownership and long-term growth opportunities.

• The energy and pace of a startup with structured processes of a larger organization.

• A team invested in your professional development.

• Health insurance benefits for you and your family.

• An inclusive workplace that values diversity and equal opportunity.