About the company
Toast creates technology to help restaurants and local businesses succeed in a digital world, helping business owners operate, increase sales, engage customers, and keep employees happy.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the multi-year P2P strategy and transformation roadmap — process, policy, tooling, and category strategy
- Build business cases for P2P investment, including cost, risk, and return, and present to Finance leadership and the SLT
- Establish operating principles, controls philosophy, and policy framework for the P2P function
- Define where automation, workflow tooling, and AI can improve cycle time, cost, control, and user experience across requisition-to-payment
- Partner with IT and Engineering to bring capability into the P2P environment
- Lead complex, high-value, precedent-setting negotiations with top-tier strategic vendors
- Own commercial strategy: structure, terms, leverage, benchmarking, and long-term value
- Partner with Legal on contractual risk and with the operating team on supplier management handoff
- Manage, coach, and develop a direct report; build the team's capability alongside the roadmap
- Serve as the senior P2P voice with the SLT, Finance leadership, IT/Engineering, Legal, and other senior stakeholders
Requirements
- 10+ years in procurement, sourcing, finance transformation, or a closely related discipline, with meaningful strategy and change experience
- Experience managing and developing people
- Track record leading complex, high-value vendor negotiations
- Demonstrated ownership of a transformation agenda end to end: diagnosis, business case, executive buy-in, delivery, and adoption
- Fluency with modern P2P/source-to-pay technology and a clear point of view on automation and AI value
- Exceptional executive communication
- Proven ability to drive outcomes through influence as well as authority
- Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward building new things
Conditions
- Nice to have: experience in high-growth technology or SaaS environment
- Nice to have: background scaling a P2P function through rapid company growth
- Nice to have: experience with globally distributed finance and procurement operating teams
- Nice to have: public company controls and compliance experience (SOX)
- Reports to the Chief Accounting Officer (CAO)