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# Procurement Specialist at Partao

- **Company:** Partao
- **Location:** South Africa
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2025-12-05
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-05
- **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/partao/am9icG9zdDon5tDyYsgvz0fas51Y7hKg

## Job description

## About the Role

We’re hiring a Procurement Specialist to join our Category Management Team. You’ll be responsible for sourcing agricultural and heavy equipment parts from verified suppliers, negotiating terms, and ensuring our customers get the right products at the right time.

This is a hands-on role where you’ll work directly with our suppliers, operations, and customer service teams to keep the supply chain moving smoothly.

## Key Responsibilities

- Source ‘’hard to find parts’’ based on specific customer orders from a variety of verified suppliers.
- Source, negotiate with and onboard new suppliers.
- Evaluate and validate supplier price offer, delivery time, and reliability.
- Assist in negotiating terms with suppliers to support competitive pricing and dependable fulfillment.
- Place and track orders efficiently, ensuring accuracy and on-time delivery.
- Maintain up-to-date records of order status, pricing, and supplier communication.
- Coordinate with the Customer Service team to provide customers with timely updates or flag exceptions.
- Escalate stock, pricing, or supplier issues for resolution.
- Support supplier onboarding and keep supplier databases updated.
- Contribute ideas for improving sourcing, ordering, and fulfillment processes as we scale.

## Requirements

- 3 - 5 years of procurement experience, ideally in agriculture, heavy equipment, or related industries.
- Leading supplier negotiations and evaluating offers.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Strong analytical and decision-making capabilities.
- Ability to work under pressure and manage competing priorities.
- Comfortable with spreadsheets and basic data tracking tools (Excel, Google Sheets).
- Clear communication skills in English (spoken and written).
- A proactive, adaptable mindset and willingness to grow in a startup environment.

Bonus Points

- Experience with e-commerce platforms or B2B marketplaces.
- Fluent in 1 EU language in addition to English.
- Familiarity with logistics, inventory management, or supply chain operations.
- Ambition to grow in a fast-paced, high-impact startup environment.

## What We Offer

- Hands-on training in B2B sales, lead generation, and CRM tools.
- Career progression opportunities within sales, marketing, or business operations.
- Start-up package, with commission.
- Opportunity to join a growing, VC-backed startup in a pivotal role, gaining exposure to both B2B and B2C growth strategies across international markets
- A culture of speed, data-driven decision-making, and transparency.
- Flat hierarchy and entrepreneurial environment where your ideas count.
- Exposure to international markets and cross-functional teamwork.

## About Partao

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Partao is an AI-enabled online marketplace and SaaS platform connecting buyers with over 5 million spare parts for agricultural and construction machinery.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed stage; raised $3.1M in 2025)
- **Headquarters**: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- **Founded**: 2025 (some sources mention 2023; the most recent structured data states 2025) [linkedin.com]
- **Founders**: Alex Ootes (Founder & CEO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet / Agri-Tech / Marketplace for agricultural and construction spare parts.
- **Target customers**: B2B and B2C – farmers, equipment owners, dealers, and mechanics across Europe.
- **Mission or purpose**: “To keep agriculture and construction moving” by offering the most extensive selection of genuine and quality parts with fast delivery.

## Products & Services
- **Marketplace (Core Platform)**: A digital catalog with 5+ million spare parts for brands like John Deere, Fendt, Case IH, Massey Ferguson, and Kubota. Customers can search, compare, and order parts for delivery across Europe. [partao.com]
- **AI‑Enabled SaaS**: Underlying technology that powers part matching, search, and procurement optimization using machine learning, improving accuracy and speed for users.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of USD 3.1 M (Pre-Seed, February 2025) led by Mangrove Capital Partners [linkedin.com].
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Mangrove Capital Partners (lead); additional four investors in the Pre-Seed round.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew +115.4% year-over-year to 25 employees.
  - Monthly website visits: 42,332 (though declining 3.2% month-on-month).
  - Featured as one of 15 startups graduating from Luxembourg’s “Fit 4 Start” program (June 2025) [siliconluxembourg.com via search result].
  - Expanding workforce across 7 countries (Armenia, Luxembourg, South Africa, India, UK, Egypt, Germany).

## Competitive Advantages
- **Vast inventory** (5 M+ parts from 2,000+ brands) makes it a one‑stop shop for agricultural and construction spare parts.
- **AI and technology layer** enhances part identification and supply chain efficiency.
- **Fast delivery across Europe** with a centralized logistics approach.
- **First‑mover advantage** in a fragmented $51.3 B global machinery parts market.

## Strategic Focus
- **Product expansion**: Continue adding brands and part categories; improve AI‑powered search and recommendation features.
- **Geographic growth**: Deepen presence across European markets while building remote‑first engineering hubs in Armenia and India.
- **SaaS enablement**: Possibly offer the underlying platform as a white‑label solution for OEMs and large distributors.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring for remote technical roles (Backend, Data, QA) and operations roles in Armenia, India, South Africa, and Luxembourg.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: “Ambition meets impact” – a team that values ownership, collaboration, and solving real‑world challenges for farmers and builders [partao.com/careers].
- **Remote‑first approach**: Many tech roles are fully remote; Luxembourg office supports a hybrid model [builtin.com].
- **Fast‑growing startup**: Opportunity to shape the company’s future as one of Europe’s fastest‑growing agri‑tech marketplaces.
- **Diverse, distributed team**: Employees from 7 countries and a flat structure with strong representation in technical departments (43% of staff).
- **Early‑stage equity & impact**: Joining at pre‑Seed means significant ownership potential and direct influence on product and culture.

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com (company profile)](https://linkedin.com/company/partao)
2. [partao.com (homepage)](https://partao.com)
3. [partao.com/careers](https://partao.com/careers)
4. [partao.com/careers2 (second careers page)](https://partao.com/careers2)
5. [jobs.gem.com/partao](https://jobs.gem.com/partao)
6. [builtin.com/company/partao](https://builtin.com/company/partao)
7. [siliconluxembourg.com (via search result – not directly linked but sourced from search)]

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