Senior Print Procurement Analyst

Who We Are

Great Minds is a high-growth, mission-driven organization founded by educators in 2007. As a for-profit, Public Benefit Corporation, we believe all students deserve access to meaningful, challenging content—and all teachers deserve tools that are intuitive, effective, and built for the realities of today’s classrooms.

We develop high-quality, knowledge-rich math, science and ELA curricula grounded in research and designed in collaboration with educators. Our materials reflect real classroom needs and are built to drive lasting student outcomes.

We are committed to usability, coherence, and practical implementation—supporting teachers not just through curriculum, but with professional learning, purposeful technology, and responsive service that enable strong adoption and impact.

What We Build

Our products—Eureka Math and Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, Geodes, and the newly launched Arts & Letters ELA—are trusted by thousands of schools and districts nationwide.

• Eureka Math is the most widely used math curriculum in the U.S., and is focused on balancing conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and application.

• Wit & Wisdom® and Arts & Letters ELA™ anchor our reading strategy with content-rich, grade-level instruction that integrates literature, history, and the arts, grounded in the science of reading. Geodes® complements our reading suite with decodable texts that pair phonics with meaningful content to support early literacy.

These programs reflect a shared belief in high expectations, joyful rigor, and deep respect for educators and students.

Where We’re Headed

Great Minds is entering a new stage of growth and product maturity. We are focused on building more connected, customer-informed experiences across the full educator journey—from curriculum to professional learning to platform and support.

Our long-term vision is to become a true partner in impact—not just delivering curriculum, but supporting educators in achieving outcomes at scale.

Job Purpose

Reporting to the Associate Director, Print Operations, the Senior Print Procurement Analyst owns strategic sourcing and procurement for Great Minds’ print manufacturing portfolio, one of the organization’s largest categories of annual spend. This role leads competitive sourcing events, builds the cost models that drive award decisions, negotiates pricing and terms with national commercial printers, and manages ongoing vendor performance to protect cost, quality, and delivery for curriculum products shipped to schools and districts nationwide.

The Senior Analyst works as a direct partner to Demand Planning, which sets title, quantity, and timing needs, and aligns with Finance, Product, and Sales to confirm annual print requirements. The role is expected to lead by example in applying AI-enabled tools to procurement: generating RFQs, normalizing and comparing supplier bids, building cost scenarios, automating purchase order workflows, and continuously improving how Great Minds buys print.

Responsibilities

Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Negotiation

• Lead competitive sourcing events end to end: define requirements and specifications, issue RFQs/RFPs, evaluate supplier responses, and present award recommendations to Operations leadership.

• Negotiate pricing, payment terms, capacity commitments, service levels, and multi-year agreements with national printers such as Quad/Graphics, Command Web Offset, and other commercial and specialty print manufacturers.

• Develop and execute a category sourcing strategy for print, including vendor consolidation, capacity allocation across vendors, and qualification of new suppliers to reduce risk and cost.

• Own measurable savings and cost-avoidance targets for print spend; track and report results to the supply chain leadership team.

• Conduct cost analyses that account for unit price, paper, freight and landed cost, make-ready and run-length economics, inventory carrying cost, and risk.

• Monitor paper and commodity market trends and advise leadership on timing, pricing exposure, and procurement strategy.

Analytics, Modeling, and Reporting

• Build and maintain print cost models that interpolate vendor quotes by page count, quantity, and specification to support budgeting, reprint decisions, and what-if scenarios.

• Develop vendor scorecards and performance analytics covering price, on-time delivery, quality, responsiveness, and capacity, and lead periodic vendor business reviews.

• Plan, track, and report print spend, savings, and procurement metrics to the supply chain team; identify trends and recommend corrective action.

• Support annual print budgeting and forecasting with Finance and Demand Planning, including variance analysis against plan.

AI-Enabled Procurement and Process Improvement

• Apply AI tools (such as Claude) to generate RFQ documentation, analyze and compare supplier proposals, draft vendor communications, and streamline purchase order issuance, tracking, and reconciliation.

• Identify, design, and implement automation and AI-driven improvements across print procurement; partner with Operations and Technology teams on tooling and workflow design.

• Actively test, refine, train others on, and document AI-powered sourcing and procurement workflows so they become repeatable team practices.

• Maintain key documentation, including SOPs, detailed ISBN print specifications, and vendor print status tracking.

Print Production and Vendor Management

• Apply deep knowledge of print production (paper stock, binding, color, file formats, press requirements) to validate specifications and evaluate vendor capabilities and proposed alternatives.

• Coordinate print schedules and vendor timelines with Demand Planning and production partners; proactively identify and escalate risks from capacity constraints, paper availability, or specification changes.

• Manage purchase order creation, approval, and reconciliation in NetSuite in coordination with Finance, resolving invoice and pricing discrepancies with vendors.

• Visit key vendors periodically to deepen relationships and knowledge of print manufacturing, and conduct vendor qualification and onboarding activities.

• Collaborate with Operations leadership to align procurement strategy, supplier relationships, and policies across categories.