Procurement Risk Specialist
Fastly · Posted Oct 28
Edge cloud platform, content delivery network, and cloud security services
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About the role
Fastly’s edge cloud platform enables customers to create digital experiences by processing, serving, and securing applications at the edge of the Internet. The Indirect Procurement team is growing and this role coordinates the procurement risk review process across Procurement, Legal, Security, IT, and Business Systems. The Procurement Risk Specialist drives reviews forward during India hours, maintains pipeline visibility, and supports process integrity for purchases.
What you will do
- Take handoff of triaged requests from the Procurement Operations Specialist and initiate the appropriate risk reviews across the Business Systems, IT, Legal, Procurement and Security teams.
- Act as the single point of contact for each review. You’ll be responsible for starting reviews, scheduling internal meetings, sequencing, and chasing inputs so no request stalls waiting on a next step.
- Set and communicate aspirational timelines and next steps for each review, keeping every stakeholder clear on what's needed from them and by when.
- Use the India-hours overlap to advance reviews outside US business hours, so US negotiators and stakeholders begin each day with requests ready to move.
- Serve as the connective tissue between requesters and reviewers by answering process questions and keeping everyone aligned on status.
- Proactively identify stuck or at-risk reviews and escalate them to the Director of Procurement with a clear picture of the blocker and the options to unblock it.
- Bring the right people together to resolve competing priorities or open questions between teams, keeping work advancing without owning the underlying risk decision.
- Own and maintain the review pipeline tracker as the single source of truth for the status, owner, and age of every in-flight review.
- Track review turnaround against target timelines and surface bottlenecks, aging items, and trends.
- Provide clear, regular status updates to the Director and stakeholders, and flag process improvements as patterns emerge.
- Ensure every request follows the defined intake-to-approval path and that required review steps are completed before a purchase proceeds.
- Keep review records and documentation accurate and current for audit and continuous improvement.
- Contribute to refining the review process itself as volume and needs evolve.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 2+ years of experience in procurement, operations, risk coordination, or project/program coordination.
- Proven project-coordination skills: able to run many concurrent workstreams, hold owners to timelines, and keep momentum across teams.
- Strong stakeholder-coordination instincts and being comfortable as the person who chases inputs and respectfully holds others to a process.
- Excellent written and verbal communication across departments, levels, time zones, and geographies.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, staying calm under competing priorities in a fast-paced growth environment.
- Sound judgment about when to escalate and how to frame a blocker clearly and constructively.
- Proficiency with Excel and Google Sheets.
- Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team.
- A sense of curiosity and a desire to learn every day.
Preferred qualifications
- Coupa
- Atlassian Suite (Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence)
- Ironclad
- Supplier risk, due diligence, or onboarding processes
- Coordinating cross-functional reviews with multiple departments
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Fastly
Fastly is an American cloud computing company that operates a programmable edge cloud platform designed to help developers build, secure, and deliver digital experiences closer to users. Its services include content delivery network (CDN) solutions, DDoS protection, web application firewalls (WAF), and image optimization. Fastly empowers enterprises globally to maintain fast, scalable, and secure web and mobile applications.
- Industry
- Cloud Computing
- Company size
- 1001-5000 employees
- Founded
- 2011
- Location
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $269M raised
- 2012-05-01Series A$4,000,000
- 2013-06-01Series B$10,000,000
- 2014-09-01Series C$40,000,000
- 2015-08-01Series D$75,000,000
- 2017-05-01Series E$50,000,000
- 2018-07-01Series F$40,000,000
- 2024-12-01Post-IPO Debt$150,000,000
- 2025-12-01Post-IPO Debt$160,000,000
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
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