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Zippi

Fintech leveraging PIX for micro-entrepreneurs' payments

Procurement Specialist

Procurement & SourcingConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in BrazilNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 4 years of experience in indirect procurement, vendor management, or a related function, including experience at technology companies or startups.
  • Has structured, helped structure, or restructured a procurement or vendor-management process and can adapt policies to the business.
  • Uses procurement policy as a tool, exercises judgment about when to be flexible, and works as an ally to business teams.
  • Can build trust with people across functions and seniority levels and translate commercial proposals for technical decision-makers.
  • Can negotiate different types of contracts, including technology, marketing, and data, and interpret clauses such as price adjustments, overages, automatic renewals, and payment terms.
  • Can independently drive execution and work in an environment without established policies, systems, or processes.
  • Actively uses artificial intelligence and no-code or low-code tools at work.
  • English proficiency to negotiate with foreign suppliers.

Responsibilities

  • Build procurement at Zippi from the ground up and develop it into a function consulted before proposals arrive.
  • Create a single source of truth for suppliers, including owners, values, contract expiration dates, contract terms, and a renewal calendar that supports advance negotiations.
  • Design purchasing policies by value tier, exception rules, and a simple requisition workflow, using artificial intelligence and low-code tools or procuring a ready-made tool.
  • Lead negotiations for significant contracts, using price, payment terms, volume, and renewal conditions as negotiation levers.
  • Monitor the use, consumption, and renewals of signed contracts and identify value-capture opportunities in existing agreements.
  • Coordinate supplier due diligence with Legal, Security, and Tax teams and prepare the company for increasing diligence requirements.
  • Create practical procurement playbooks and manuals, and measure and report the function’s value.
  • Understand and work on key operational partners and contracts, particularly in technology, software as a service, marketing, and data providers.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience conducting supplier due diligence at a regulated, audited, or publicly listed company.
  • Experience across multidisciplinary categories such as software as a service, cloud, credit bureaus, and marketing.
  • Experience at technology or software-as-a-service companies.
  • Experience automating processes and integrating systems.
  • Knowledge of tax considerations and the impact of tax reform on procurement.

About the Company

Zippi

Fintech leveraging PIX for micro-entrepreneurs' payments

Zippi is a Brazilian fintech focused on micro and small entrepreneurs. It provides agile and accessible financial solutions, using PIX as a credit and payment platform to help businesses move forward. The company processes over R$2.7 billion in transactions per year and has recently reached breakeven, showing its business model can scale sustainably. Zippi’s approach centers on enabling small businesses to access fast payments and credit through PIX, simplifying financial operations and cash flow management. Unlike many peers, Zippi has positioned itself as an early responder to PIX-based finance for the small-business segment and has achieved meaningful scale in Brazil. The company’s goal is to help millions of Brazilian micro and small entrepreneurs thrive by making financial services easier to use and more affordable.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$69.4M
Headquarters
São Paulo, Brazil
Founded
2019

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