The Foundation

We are the largest nonprofit fighting poverty, disease, and inequity around the world. Founded on a simple premise: people everywhere, regardless of identity or circumstances, should have the chance to live healthy, productive lives. We believe our employees should reflect the rich diversity of the global populations we aim to serve. We provide an exceptional benefits package to employees and their families which include comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with no premiums, generous paid time off, paid family leave, foundation-paid retirement contribution, regional holidays, and opportunities to engage in several employee communities. As a workplace, we’re committed to creating an environment for you to thrive both personally and professionally.

The TeamThe vision of Global Financial & Accounting Services (GFAS) is to provide innovative and scalable global business solutions in accounting, tax, payroll, treasury, sourcing, procurement and financial operations while safeguarding the reputation of the foundation and our related entities, with the highest standards of integrity and operational excellence.

GFAS is a team within the Finance organization at the foundation and an important part of the operations function. Operations supports and enables the six program divisions to make investments and to run effectively and efficiently. As a function, Finance employs approximately 200 full-time employees (FTEs). The GFAS team is significant (45+ FTEs), and continues to scale up to support the increasing breadth and complexity of global operations for the foundation and its affiliated entities.

Your Role

Reporting to the Operations Lead of SS&P, as a Buy Desk Analyst, you will serve as the primary operational resource for low risk purchasing activities within a defined dollar threshold across the foundation. Your work as an individual contributor will directly support regional offices and many foundation departments by streamlining procurement execution.

You will process and coordinate low risk purchasing requests, collaborate with procurement analysts, sourcing and contracting teams, ensure policy compliance, and provide exceptional service to internal partners. This role is key to increasing procurement efficiency, supporting systems adoption and enabling scaling of operations support.

What You’ll Do

  • Review, and execute low-risk, low dollar procurement requests across multiple business units and regions.
  • Support the SS&P intake process and procurement ticket management, partnering closely with the procurement operations team, contracting analysts and sourcing category leads.
  • Ensure requests align with defined low-risk criteria and foundation guidelines.
  • Manage purchase requisition creation and processing in Coupa and act as a liaison with internal requestors to ensure completeness and accuracy.
  • Maintain procurement documentation, system updates, and catalog entries to ensure consistent operational support.
  • Collaborate with internal and regional teams to provide procurement support, guidance, and training on buy desk processes.
  • Monitor and report on volume, SLAs, and compliance metrics related to low-risk triage.
  • Contribute to the development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and training content for the buy desk model.
  • Partner with Procurement Operations leadership to continuously improve intake workflows and scale capabilities for global operations.

    Your Experience

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