Contractor, P2P Specialist

Lila Sciences, Inc.; Cambridge (MA); On-site; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Lila Sciences is replacing its procure-to-pay platform with Coupa, aiming for a Q1 2027 go-live. As P2P Specialist, you will own configuration through go-live and post-launch triage at the Cambridge, MA site, collaborating closely with the systems integrator and Finance, Legal, and scientists relying on the system.

The six-month contract sits at the OCP office in Cambridge, MA, managing configuration workshops, data migration, testing, and handover to internal owners.

Qualifications

• Hands-on configuration on a modern P2P or source-to-pay platform, Coupa preferred; Ariba/Zip/Oracle experience considered.
• At least one full implementation or major module go-live with personal configuration or UAT ownership.
• Knowledge of three-way match, tolerance thresholds, and approval hierarchy design.
• Catalog and punch-out enablement, plus supplier network onboarding.
• Data migration and validation: reconcile supplier master and explain variances.
• Fast-paced project environment with end users who are scientists awaiting experiments.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and run configuration workshops with stakeholders alongside the systems integrator.
• Execute and document configuration workstreams: approval matrices, guided buying, catalogs, punch-out, supplier onboarding.
• Build and load catalog and punch-out content, starting with the highest-volume suppliers.
• Configure the approval hierarchy against the approved signing matrix and test before go-live.
• Run data migration and validation across supplier master, open commitments, and historical purchase orders.
• Own user acceptance testing: write scripts, run sessions, log defects, drive closure.

Skills

Coupa

Ariba

Oracle

UAT ownership

Data migration

Approval hierarchy

Job description

Lila is replacing its procure-to-pay platform. Coupa has been selected, an implementation partner is engaged, and go-live is targeted for Q1 2027 on a fifteen-week build.

As the P2P Specialist you own configuration through go-live. After launch you triage issue tickets, turn recurring problems into configuration or training fixes, and produce a documented handover package for the internal owners.

This is a six-month contract based at our OCP office in Cambridge, MA, working day to day with the systems integrator and partnering with Finance, Legal, and the scientists who depend on the system.

What You'll Be Building

• Coordinate and run configuration workshops with stakeholders alongside the systems integrator
• Execute and document configuration workstreams: approval matrices, guided buying, catalogs, punch-out, supplier onboarding
• Build and load catalog and punch-out content, starting with the highest-volume suppliers
• Configure the approval hierarchy against the approved signing matrix and test it thoroughly before go-live
• Run data migration and validation across the supplier master, open commitments, and historical purchase orders
• Own user acceptance testing: write the scripts, run the sessions, log defects, drive them to closure
• Hold dual-system reconciliation through the parallel run so no order is duplicated or dropped
• Manage the systems integrator day to day and elevate risks internally
• Triage post-go-live issues and hand over complete documentation to trained internal owners

What You'll Need to Succeed

• Hands-on configuration experience on a modern P2P or source-to-pay platform, Coupa strongly preferred, deep Ariba, Zip, or Oracle experience considered
• At least one full implementation or major module go-live where you personally held configuration or UAT
• Working knowledge of three-way match, tolerance thresholds, and approval hierarchy design
• Catalog and punch-out enablement, and supplier network onboarding
• Data migration and validation experience: you can reconcile a supplier master and explain every variance
• Temperament for a fast, visible project where the end users are scientists with experiments waiting

Bonus Points For

• Ironclad or similar CLM experience
• Life sciences or research environment, including lab consumables and capital equipment buying patterns
• ERP integration exposure: NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, or similar
• Experience running hypercare alongside a systems integrator
• Having decommissioned a legacy platform, not just stood up a new one

About LILA

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves.

LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai.

Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply.

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