Procurement & Vendor Management Expert

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Procurement & Vendor Management Expert for a fully remote contractor role. You will design realistic, multi-step procurement tasks and establish objective grading criteria to ensure consistency across reviewers.

Strong domain knowledge in procurement, supplier assessment, and vendor risk frameworks is essential. The work involves real workflows, referencing contracts, bids, and risk analyses, with strict adherence to timelines.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on responsibility in procurement, sourcing, supplier assessment, or vendor management.

Responsibilities

• Design multi-step tasks drawn from real procurement work — supplier assessment, bid comparison, vendor risk analysis, contract review — with realistic reference files and clear instructions.
• Define objective grading criteria so two qualified reviewers would reach the same verdict on the same output.
• Build tasks that require judgment rather than lookup: ones where the right answer depends on reading the materials correctly.
• Create or source the supporting materials each task needs: RFP responses, pricing schedules, contracts, SLAs, risk assessments.
• Flag tasks that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable instead of submitting them anyway.
• Deliver approved tasks on schedule and at the required quality level.

Skills

Task definition

Grading criteria

Supplier evaluation

Vendor management

Job description

pay

Required Skills

• Turning Real Procurement Work Into a Defined Task
• Objective Grading Criteria
• Supplier Evaluation and Selection
• Vendor Problems After Signing

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role Title: Procurement & Vendor Management Expert

Role Type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Opportunity Snapshot

Pay: Up to $90/hour equivalent.

Time per task: ~10 hours per task

Location: Fully remote — no geographic restrictions. Strong English required (B2 minimum, C1 preferred)

Next step: Complete the role-specific AI interview — it’s how your expertise gets in front of the client

Your tasks: Design realistic, multi-step procurement and vendor management tasks with objective criteria for grading the output

micro1 is engaging experienced procurement and vendor management practitioners to design the tasks that measure what AI systems can actually do. Your domain knowledge is what matters here — no prior AI experience required.

The work is to turn real procurement workflows into benchmark tasks: realistic, difficult, and gradable against objective criteria. If you’ve built a supplier scorecard, run a weighted bid evaluation, or written a vendor risk framework, that’s exactly the instinct this needs.

Scope of Work

• Design multi-step tasks drawn from real procurement work — supplier assessment, bid comparison, vendor risk analysis, contract review — with realistic reference files and clear instructions.
• Define objective grading criteria so two qualified reviewers would reach the same verdict on the same output.
• Build tasks that require judgment rather than lookup: ones where the right answer depends on reading the materials correctly.
• Create or source the supporting materials each task needs: RFP responses, pricing schedules, contracts, SLAs, risk assessments.
• Flag tasks that turn out to be ambiguous or ungradable instead of submitting them anyway.
• Deliver approved tasks on schedule and at the required quality level.

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands‑on responsibility in procurement, sourcing, supplier assessment, or vendor management — direct ownership of the work, not supervisory-only or adjacent exposure.
• Experience creating or applying structured evaluation standards: supplier scorecards, weighted bid criteria, vendor risk frameworks, or category strategies.
• Comfortable working across contracts, spreadsheets, and reports at the same time.
• CIPS, CPSM or equivalent certification is a plus, but not required.
• Strong English, written and spoken — B2 minimum, C1 preferred.
• AI or LLM evaluation experience is a plus, but not required.

How the selection process works

• Apply and complete the screening questions
• Complete the AI interview for this role — even if you’ve interviewed with us before, a role-specific interview is how we showcase your domain expertise to the client, and it gives you the strongest shot at being selected
• Profile review
• Onboarding — our Talent Ops team will get you set up
• Email

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