Procurement Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $100/Hr

Mercor; Sydney; Remote; AUD 137,000 - 196,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. This remote contract role seeks a Procurement Expert to review vendor intake requests, benchmark terms, and draft rubric-based evaluations.

You will consolidate inputs from finance, legal, security, and IT to support final approvals while ensuring realism in simulated environments. The ideal candidate has 8+ years in procurement or spend operations, hands-on renewal experience, and strong written communication.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management.
• Hands-on experience running real vendor requests and renewals.
• Sourced from mature procurement functions with formal vendor-review processes.
• Strong written communication skills; able to produce structured, rubric-style feedback.
• Preferred: experience with modern spend-management platforms or e-procurement tools.
• Experience with task-writing or AI-training data is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Review simulated vendor intake requests and benchmark prices and terms.
• Consolidate multi-disciplinary reviews into final approval recommendations.
• Create rubric-style responses that reflect expert procurement judgment.
• Audit simulated environments for realism and consistency before tasks open.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines and improve AI model performance.

Skills

Procurement experience

Vendor management

Spend operations

Written communication

Tools

E-procurement platforms

Job description

About the job

Mercor connects elite creative and technical talent with leading AI research labs. Headquartered in San Francisco, our investors include Benchmark, General Catalyst, Peter Thiel, Adam D'Angelo, Larry Summers, and Jack Dorsey.

Position: Procurement Expert
Type: Contract
Compensation: $70–$100/hour
Location: Remote

Role Responsibilities

• Review simulated new-vendor intake requests, benchmarking price and contract terms against realistic company reference data.
• Consolidate multi-lens reviews (finance, legal, security, IT) into a well-reasoned final approval recommendation.
• Author step-level rubrics and golden responses that capture how an experienced procurement lead would judge a request or renewal.
• Audit simulated company environments for realism and unintended contradictions before tasks open.
• Work independently and asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving AI model performance.

Qualifications

Must-Have

• 8+ years of professional experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management.
• Hands-on experience running real vendor requests and renewals.
• Sourced from mature procurement functions at companies with formal vendor-review processes.
• Strong written communication skills; comfortable producing structured, rubric-style feedback.

Preferred

• Experience with modern spend-management or e-procurement platforms.
• Prior task-writing, rubric-authoring, or AI-training data experience.

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