Procurement Expert (Train AI Models Part Time!)

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.

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

Requirements

• 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