Procurement Specialist - Fully Remote | Upto $100/hr

mercor; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; GBP 73,000 - 104,000; Full time

Job summary

Mercor is seeking a Procurement Expert for a remote contract role. You will review vendor requests, benchmark prices, and coordinate multi-stakeholder reviews to guide approvals.

You will author rubrics, ensure realism in AI training data, and work asynchronously to meet deadlines while improving procurement processes.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Review simulated new-vendor intake requests, benchmarking price and contract terms against 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.

Skills

Procurement experience

Vendor management

Spend analysis

Written communication

Rubric writing

AI training data

Tools

Spend-management platforms

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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