The Role
The Junior Procurement/Sourcing Analyst role involves sourcing hard-to-find parts, managing supplier data, and improving sourcing processes in a fast-paced environment.
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About Partao
Why Join Us?
What We Offer
Partao is building the global marketplace for heavy-machinery parts — a single platform that connects buyers and sellers across the industry. With 2,000+ brands and more than 5 million SKUs, we make sourcing faster, smarter, and more reliable by helping people find the exact part that fits their machine.
We’re focused on doing the right things well — first. That means building something useful, something real, with impact that lasts. If you want to be part of a fast-moving team shaping a marketplace at global scale, Partao is the place to do it.
About the Role
We're hiring a Sourcing / Procurement Analyst to own one of the most critical functions at Partao: Find My Part.
This role sits at the frontline of our marketplace. You'll source parts that customers can't find anywhere else, whether highly specific, backordered, or not yet available through our existing suppliers. You'll drive sourcing decisions independently, manage a growing supplier portfolio, and improve how the function runs as you go.
This is a hands-on, ownership-heavy role for someone with a few years of sourcing or procurement experience who's ready to run their own patch without needing close direction.
Key Responsibilities
- Own the Find My Part pipeline: sourcing hard-to-find, customer-requested parts from verified vendors or by identifying and onboarding new ones.
- Build out vendor pipelines to ensure reliable coverage across categories and reduce reliance on one-off sourcing.
- Negotiate pricing, lead time, and terms directly with suppliers to secure the best outcome for each request.
- Compare supplier offers across price, lead time, and reliability, and make the call on trade-offs.
- Build and manage a growing portfolio of suppliers within your category.
- Work closely with Customer Service to keep customers informed and resolve issues quickly.
- Own the accuracy and quality of the supplier and order data within your scope.
- Spot patterns in repeat requests and turn one-off sourcing into reusable supply.
- Lead supplier onboarding and keep supplier databases current and reliable.
- Recommend and help implement improvements to how the team sources, validates, and fulfills hard-to-find parts.
Requirements
- Experience in procurement, sourcing, category operations, or a commercial operations role.
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, supply chain, or a related field preferred.
- Comfortable negotiating with suppliers and asking the direct commercial questions.
- Strong problem-solving mindset; you take ownership when the answer isn't obvious.
- Commercial curiosity: you care about pricing, lead times, and supplier trade-offs.
- Data-driven, confident working with spreadsheets and analysis to support sourcing and negotiation decisions.
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple requests in parallel without heavy oversight.
- Strong English communication skills (written and spoken). A European language is a plus.
- Comfortable working independently in a fast-paced startup environment.
Bonus Points
- Experience supporting or working in procurement, sourcing, or category operations.
- Exposure to marketplaces, e-commerce, or B2B platforms.
- Curiosity or background in mechanical, industrial, or technical products.
- Comfort speaking with suppliers and asking the “awkward” commercial questions.
- Ability to spot patterns in repeat requests and turn one-off sourcing into reusable supply.
- A natural bias for action - you’d rather try, learn, and iterate than wait for perfect instructions.
- Shape the data backbone of a fast-scaling B2B platform
- Work with real-world data that matters to customers every day
- Join a small, sharp, and globally distributed team
- Own critical decisions and make an impact from Day 1
What We Offer
- Opportunity to be a thought leader with a wide span of control in a fast-growing startup with experienced mentors
- A challenging and rewarding environment where you can directly impact the future of the company and the industry
Skills Required
- 1-2 years experience in procurement, sourcing, category support, or a commercial operations role
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, supply chain, or a related field preferred
- Strong problem-solving mindset
- Comfortable working with spreadsheets and basic data analysis
- Organised, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple requests
- Strong English communication skills
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The Company
What We Do
Partao is an AI-enabled SaaS and marketplace offering parts for agricultural and construction equipment. It is Europe's largest and fastest-growing online marketplace for agricultural and construction spare parts.
