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 Rate: $70.0-$100.0 USD/hourly Commitment: hourly Domain: Business Operations Referral Bonus: $400.0 Open slots: 10 Note: This is a third party job (Aggregated by careeruplift.ai). Shortlisting and Final hiring decision & process is handled by the company.