Procurement Specialist - Fully Remote

Mercor; Greater London; Remote; GBP 85,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is building realistic, high-fidelity simulated environments to evaluate and train AI models on real-world procurement workflows. We are seeking senior procurement and vendor-management professionals to author tasks and validate processes that mirror how procurement teams vet vendors and review contract renewals.

You will lead multi‑lens reviews, draft rubrics, and ensure realism in simulated environments before tasks open, contributing to high‑quality AI training data and practical

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management.
• Experience running real vendor requests and renewals.
• Strong written communication and rubric-style feedback.

Responsibilities

• Review simulated new-vendor intake requests, benchmarking price and contract terms against realistic data.
• Consolidate multi‑lens reviews (finance, legal, security, IT) into a final approval recommendation.
• Author step-level rubrics and golden responses for evaluating requests or renewals.
• Audit simulated environments for realism and avoid contradictions before tasks open.

Skills

Vendor management

Procurement leadership

Written communication

Job description

About the Role

Mercor is building realistic, high-fidelity simulated environments to evaluate and train AI models on real-world procurement workflows for a leading spend-management technology company. We're looking for senior procurement and vendor-management professionals to author and validate tasks that mirror how procurement teams actually vet new vendors and review contract renewals.

Key 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

Ideal Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management, with 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

Nice to Have

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