Procurement Category Manager

Groupon is a marketplace where customers discover new experiences and services everyday and local businesses thrive. To date we have worked with over a million merchant partners worldwide, connecting over 16 million customers with deals across various categories. In a world often dominated by e-commerce giants, we stand out as one of the few platforms uniquely committed to helping local businesses succeed on a performance basis.

Groupon is on a radical journey to transform our business with relentless pursuit of results. Even with thousands of employees spread across multiple continents, we still maintain a culture that inspires innovation, rewards risk-taking and celebrates success. The impact here can be immediate due to our scale and the speed of our transformation. We're a "best of both worlds" kind of company. We're big enough to have the resources and scale, but small enough that a single person has a surprising amount of autonomy and can make a meaningful impact.

📍Location: Prague (hybrid work model)

At Groupon, procurement is not a back-office function. It’s a business partner role with real impact on how the company spends money. 💸

We’re looking for a Procurement Category Manager who combines analytical thinking, strong project ownership, and hands-on procurement experience, and who is comfortable working closely with stakeholders. This role is about asking the right questions, challenging assumptions, and helping the business make smarter decisions - not just executing requests.

You’ll join a small, senior, highly autonomous team operating in a fast-moving, AI-driven environment 🤖. Roughly 70–80% of the role is investigative, analytical, and project-driven, with the remaining 20–30% focused on procurement execution.

What You’ll Do

• Act as a business partner, helping teams shape and validate procurement needs before anything is bought.

• Lead analytical investigations and project management around spend, tools, vendors, and contracts.

• Challenge sourcing requests: Do we really need this? Is there an alternative? Is the scope right?

• Work closely with IT, Finance, HR, and other stakeholders to clarify requirements and align on the best business outcome 🤝.

• Own vendor and contract management: negotiations, renewals, performance tracking, and compliance.

• Run RFx processes (RFP/RFQ), evaluate bids, and finalize commercial and contractual terms.

• Support indirect procurement categories with a strong focus on IT vendors, SaaS tools, licenses, and services.

• Improve procurement workflows, documentation, and audit readiness using tools like Asana and ERP systems.

• Identify cost-saving and optimization opportunities, supported by data and AI-enabled analysis.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience in procurement, category management, operations, or consulting, with hands-on exposure to IT procurement or IT spend.

• Strong project ownership: ability to take ambiguous problems and drive them end-to-end 🚀.

• Solid analytical skills and comfort working with data to support decisions.

• Strong negotiation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to work independently in a small team with minimal hand-holding.

• Fluent English.

Nice to Have

• Background in e-commerce, tech, scale-up, or consulting environments.

• Experience with ICT or digital services procurement.

• Familiarity with AI-supported analytics 🤖.

• Experience using Asana or similar project management tools.

• Czech or Slovak language skills.

What Success Looks Like

• Procurement projects delivered on time, with clear business impact.

• Confident, independent handling of vendors, negotiations, and renewals.

• Positive feedback from business stakeholders 💪 .

• Tangible cost optimization and smarter spend decisions.

• Clear, audit-ready documentation without slowing the business down.

Why Join Groupon 💚

You’ll have visibility, influence, and autonomy in a role that genuinely shapes how Groupon operates. This is not a traditional corporate procurement job - it’s best suited for someone who enjoys thinking, challenging, and building, and who thrives in fast-paced, low-ego, high-impact teams.

If you’re looking for a role where procurement is a strategic tool, not a checkbox, this is it 🙌 .

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Groupon is an AI-First Company
We’re committed to building smarter, faster, and more innovative ways of working—and AI plays a key role in how we get there. We encourage candidates to leverage AI tools during the hiring process where it adds value, and we’re always keen to hear how technology improves the way you work. If you’re passionate about AI or curious to explore how it can elevate your role—you’ll be right at home here.

Groupon’s purpose is to build strong communities through thriving small businesses. To learn more about the world’s largest local e-commerce marketplace, click here. You can also find out more about us in the latest Groupon news as well as learning about our DEI approach. If all of this sounds like something that’s a great fit for you, then click apply and join us on a mission to become the ultimate destination for local experiences and services.

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