Remote Procurement & Vendor Excellence 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

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.