Procurement Expert

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

We consider all qualified applicants without regard to legally protected characteristics and provide reasonable accommodations upon request.

Contract and Payment Terms

• You will be engaged as an independent contractor.
• This is a fully remote role that can be completed on your own schedule.
• Projects can be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on needs and performance.
• Your work at Mercor will not involve access to confidential or proprietary information from any employer, client, or institution.
• Payments are weekly on Stripe or Wise based on services rendered.
• Please note: We are unable to support H1-B or STEM OPT candidates at this time.

About Mercor

Mercor partners with leading AI labs and enterprises to train frontier models using human expertise. You will work on projects that focus on training and enhancing AI systems. You will be paid competitively, collaborate with leading researchers, and help shape the next generation of AI systems in your area of expertise.