Procurement Expert

Alan is building a vertically integrated health partner that unites insurance and smart healthcare delivery into one seamless system. Our vision is to make prevention the new norm of care for all.

Our mission: Help people live in good health to 100 while helping employers feel proud, turning health benefits from a cost centre into their most valuable investment.

By connecting all aspects of care (private, public, and direct to consumer) we create the most member-centric healthcare experience, reducing claims costs while generating new monetization opportunities.

We partner with tens of thousands of companies across France 🇫🇷, Spain 🇪🇸, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦, serving over a million members.

• Mission is the Boss — We think long-term and are methodical optimists who take risks, seeking our mission's success above all else.

• Distributed Ownership — Accountable enlightened despots: everyone owns their decisions and results.

• Radical Transparency — All information is accessible and written-first, so everyone can make the best decisions asynchronously.

• Always Growing — Direct, positive, and caring feedback, combined with self-growth ownership.

The Finance community conducts critical strategic, data and operational projects. There are currently 2 main areas in the teams:

• Finance & Strategy:

  • (1) steers Alan’s financial performance through business planning, financial and operational monitoring, strategic explorations and implementation of high P&L impact initiatives

  • (2) communicates with Board & investors, and fundraising

• Finance Operations: is in charge of building, automating and optimizing Alan's finance processes, producing and communicating financial data to various stakeholders, including the board, team, tax administrations, regulator (ACPR), as well as investment/liquidity management.

We are looking for a leader to create a third area focused on Procurement, working closely with other teams from Alan (workplace, IT support, engineering, and operations in the longer term).

As Procurement Lead within the Finance community, your mission is to elevate Alan’s procurement setup into a high-impact, business-enabling capability.

You will bring more structure, visibility and commercial rigor to how we manage suppliers, while keeping our approach pragmatic and adapted to a fast-moving environment. Your role will be to focus procurement effort where it creates the most value, strengthen our supplier relationships, and help teams across Alan make better purchasing decisions.

More specifically, you will:

• Strengthen and scale Alan’s procurement setup, by improving the processes, governance, and templates that support better supplier management and purchasing decisions across the company

• Own the commercial management of a defined portfolio of strategic suppliers, especially key IT equipment providers

• Lead high-impact negotiations, on the suppliers you own directly and on selected high-value topics where procurement expertise can materially improve outcomes

• Enable Alaners to make better vendor decisions, by providing coaching, support, and clear documentation on negotiation approach and purchasing best practices

• Build visibility on spend and vendor benchmarks, to help teams better understand pricing and make more informed decisions

• Proactively engage teams on critical renewals, to ensure important supplier decisions are anticipated early and managed before they become urgent

• Dive deep when needed into contracts, pricing structures, supplier economics, consumption patterns and category dynamics to unlock better outcomes

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building maturity in an evolving environment, knows how to combine influence with execution, and can distinguish between where procurement needs stronger structure and where simplicity should win.

Must have:

• 5+ years procurement experience, including in scale-up/fast-growth environments

• Proven track record structuring and scaling procurement in evolving setups

• Strong negotiation skills with complex commercial agreements, especially SaaS/IT contracts

• Ability to balance strategic frameworks with hands-on execution

• Excellent stakeholder management across Finance, Legal, Workplace, IT, and business teams

• Strong analytical capabilities, with the ability to go deep into spend, pricing models, contracts and usage patterns

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English and French

• High autonomy and comfort with ambiguity

Nice to have:

• Experience with procurement tools/platforms

• Exposure to AI/ML provider contracts & familiarity with enterprise software licensing models

• Exposure to legal, compliance or risk considerations linked to supplier selection and management

• Experience in tech, SaaS, insurance or other operationally complex environments

• Location: You must be legally eligible to work from France.

• Remote work: We offer remote work flexibility, but we value in-person collaboration

If you're excited about this opportunity but don't check every box, we'd love to hear from you. Everyone, no matter how underrepresented, should feel free to apply, as it can only bring learnings or success.

If you identify yourself as a woman: Did you know that research shows women often apply only when meeting 100% of requirements?

Remember, this is just a guide, not a checklist. We'll be thrilled to receive your application!

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• 🙌 Perks & Benefits: Alaners are provided with a stimulating environment and perks ensuring they are happy, efficient and spend only high-quality time with co-workers.

• 🤘A strong culture: People joining Alan are often surprised and delighted by our innovative working method. We have a set of cultural values that guide our approach to work