Procurement Specialist - Fully Remote

Mercor; New York (NY); Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

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.

In this role, you will review simulated intake requests, benchmark terms against reference data, and consolidate multi‑lens

Qualifications

• 8+ years of professional experience in procurement, spend operations, or vendor management.
• Hands-on experience running real vendor requests and renewals.
• Strong written communication skills; able to produce structured, rubric-style feedback.

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.

Skills

Procurement experience

Vendor management

Written communication

Tools

Spend-management platforms

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